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Emoticon Diplomacy: a nice video for understanding Euro-geopolitics in 2012
Cheat notes: Poland's playing the game smart and will be a player for the rest of the century; Turkey doesn't even have to try in order to be a big winner in the 21st century. Russia's a bully who's figuring out he needs to keep his punks at least a little happy and Italy is schizophrenic. This video gives a well compressed overview for understanding future stories coming out of Europe over the next 5-10 years. After that, the chessboard will be reshuffled. It always happens like that.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/multimedia/2010/12/europe_inside_story
