Diplomatic Risk Reflection

The diplomatic game of risk is beneficial to understand the way the world politic works. It gives a better understanding to see how the political actors interact with different states. This game reminds me of two things: First, the interaction of political actors with other actors to pass the bill or to put sanctions internationally. Second, the political actors interact with other political actors to align with other states to strengthen their power. For instance, President Trump made a trip to few countries in Asia to enhance the US relationships with other countries. During his trip to China, he specifically urged China to stop making a trade deal with North Korea. In the same way, the diplomat of each team went around the class to interact with other team members to make a deal. The primary goal of the diplomat is to persuade another team to have an agreement that would support towards the objective of his or her team. I was not the head of state neither the diplomat. However, being apart of the team is something extraordinary. The president or the diplomat plays a role in interacting with other team members, but their action is carried out by the decision taken in the group. I think that is the way the world politics functions. The political actors represent their states, but their action is carried out by the decision taken by members of their state's representatives. Most importantly, I understood that allying with another state is critical in the world politics. Allies rarely wage war against their partners, but they help to strengthen to support their allies. Allies is essential in every stage the of world politics because the more allies the state has, the more powerful it becomes. For instance, the team blue was close to winning the game, but since it had no allies it lost. The other teams aligned with one another and ultimately removed blue to have control over Ukraine and other parts of Europe. If the team blue is clever enough to make a deal with other teams, it might have won the game.
    The realistic part is when the diplomats make a deal with another diplomat of other teams. The diplomats would do anything to benefits his or her team. There are cases where the diplomat of one team do not agree with the deal that another diplomat is trying to get in. However, the diplomats of both teams work together to make sure that both the teams benefit from the deal. The diplomat would not agree on the deal that would not benefit their teams.
However, in few cases, the state representatives do not keep the promise about the agreement. They break the deal when they see that one only team is benefiting from the agreement. For instance, Yellow promised not to wage war against blue in the future, but when the yellow came to know that blue was about to win, yellow passed its special power to green to take down all the territories that blue controls. I think this is the way realist play the game in a real-world politics. They have a deal, but when it comes to the point that they see the deal would only benefit the other state they would not care to break the agreement.
    The only part which I disagreed was to align with pink. When the president and diplomat said yes to align with pink, I said it does not benefit us at all. We just went outside the context of our objective. The reason is the second objective of the team yellow is to get rid the team pink. But without a second thought, the president and the diplomat allied with the team pink. If this was a deal made with another state, our state ultimately went in the wrong direction. The president and the diplomat were excited about the special power used to destroy the team blue, but they forgot the objective of the team.