National Security Decision Making:
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Player Quotes From Previous Games



Israeli Settler speaking before the other Israeli players arrived:

I can make promises for people who aren’t here.



French player warning British player about U.S. Congress:

Coneheads, everywhere you look.



Mitsubishi board member commenting on Mitsui’s P&B:

It’s more than a figment of somebody’s imagination, but less than a useable tool.



Russian ultra-nationalist in the Duma to PRC Foreign Minister:

You’re Chinese. I don’t care what you want.



Chief of the Russian General Staff explaining at the game de-brief why, when ordered to conduct a single nuclear burst in a remote Iranian desert to demonstrate Russia’s resolve during a regional crisis, he dropped 839 warheads and leveled the entire country:
It turns out that if you want to deviate from the existing Iranian war plan, you have to tell the Military Controller or he squeezes the trigger until the magazine’s empty.
I didn’t mind wiping out Iran, but media blew the whole thing out of proportion and that pretty much killed my shot at the Presidency.



A Russian player, speaking to a LARPer who came by to ask them to “hold it down a little.”

We’re Russians; we are holding it down!



New U.S. President after a bad “first day with Congress”:
The Congress slaughtered my budget and I don’t know why.
U.S. Media player:
Maybe it’s because you actually look like Hillary.



PLA Rep to PRC PolitBuro, explaining why China’s armed forces couldn’t execute the order to invade Taiwan:
The bad news is that we never finished the plan for the invasion.
The good news is that it turns out we didn’t have enough ships, anyway.

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