In my youth, I used to play these insane board games, bent on world domination. These games where intensive and took days and even weeks to play (the internet was young at the time).
The complexities of these games even now astounds me but it did not hold a candle to the complexities of our reality today. But from this "game playing" and later historical research, I learned long term strategy, historical consistencies and global/individual motivations for nation states.
Barely more than 150 years ago Moses Hess, a German born Ashkenazi-Jew (aka Kazarian) developed the initial concepts of socialism and communism. Then Karl Marx (another Kazarian) took this political philosophy and spread it to the world like John the Baptist. The radical, demonic and destructive ideas of this philosophy first took hold on Russia as its' first victim during the Bolshevik revolution.
Note that the movement was sold to the working class promising they would have a unionized voice and for once, share equally in the wealth of their production.
Did that promise hold true? No, after the revolution was won and the aristocrats were killed what remained was despots and powerful warlords to fill the void.
Stalin rose to power and killed the very same people who supported his rise to power, the death toll was staggering. From executions to starvation of millions caused by mismanagement it is the shinning light of historical lessons of why socialism and communism does not work.
Anyone care to make the next move on the board game?
The game Risk is my all-time favorite.