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<blockquote data-quote="catstalking" data-source="post: 6031730" data-attributes="member: 50268">the Chinese and Russians aren&#039;t great at it either, nobody is really good at Empire because it&#039;s inherently against human nature in the long runthey SEEM good at it because they take a mostly laissez-faire approach to it, without direct meddlingwe, of course, can&#039;t help but meddle in everything and force our beliefs on our vassals constantly, leading to greater blowback; it also doesn&#039;t help that historically we&#039;ve chosen the worst possible political candidate in basically every country we&#039;ve ever meddled in the elections of&gt;&quot;hey CIA, we have 3 guys to choose from: 1. is a socialist, 2. is a Western educated guy who doesn&#039;t like commies, but isn&#039;t a total psycho either, 3. is a total psycho who says he hates commies but if we stop paying him for a second, he&#039;ll turn on us&quot;.&gt;&quot;yeah i think #3 is the best, lets murder #2 but leave #1 as an opposition so eventually our plan goes to <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2&nbsp; &nbsp; :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> anyways!&quot;&gt;&quot;sounds good CIA!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="catstalking, post: 6031730, member: 50268"] the Chinese and Russians aren't great at it either, nobody is really good at Empire because it's inherently against human nature in the long run they SEEM good at it because they take a mostly laissez-faire approach to it, without direct meddling we, of course, can't help but meddle in everything and force our beliefs on our vassals constantly, leading to greater blowback; it also doesn't help that historically we've chosen the worst possible political candidate in basically every country we've ever meddled in the elections of [B][COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)]>"hey CIA, we have 3 guys to choose from: 1. is a socialist, 2. is a Western educated guy who doesn't like commies, but isn't a total psycho either, 3. is a total psycho who says he hates commies but if we stop paying him for a second, he'll turn on us".[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)][B]>"yeah i think #3 is the best, lets murder #2 but leave #1 as an opposition so eventually our plan goes to :censored: anyways!"[/B][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)]>"sounds good CIA!"[/COLOR][/B] [/QUOTE]

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