World Domination

[Exarch]

ok, let's say you're the head of state of any country, or if u prefer, the eminence grise, directing things behind a cloak and dagger.
how would u go about ensuring world domination using the current resources your country has at the moment.
Would you wait a few years before acting? and how would you go about doing it?

[TomTheSaint]

Well it'd depend on the country.

Lets say I was china - I'd remove the one-child law and encourage the population to boom and emigrate to other countries. I'd wait a number of years until my people controlled key position in several governments and the economy of several other states, then call for a massive unification effort.

Next, the countries unaffected would all declare war on me for suddenly annexing so much land. With my massive population and stolen technology from various other countries, I'd assemble a massive force and take over one by one the powers arrayed against me, using my people to effectively colonize the defeated to prevent insurrection.

Its slow, but never been tried before. Plus, if I succeed, I'll be seen as a 'great unifier' of the world and its people.

[Bokks]

Well it'd depend on the country.

Lets say I was china - I'd remove the one-child law and encourage the population to boom and emigrate to other countries. I'd wait a number of years until my people controlled key position in several governments and the economy of several other states, then call for a massive unification effort.

Next, the countries unaffected would all declare war on me for suddenly annexing so much land. With my massive population and stolen technology from various other countries, I'd assemble a massive force and take over one by one the powers arrayed against me, using my people to effectively colonize the defeated to prevent insurrection.

Its slow, but never been tried before. Plus, if I succeed, I'll be seen as a 'great unifier' of the world and its people.

The funny thing is that this is precisely what many people are afraid China is doing, and what's more the actual implimentation of the One Child Law is to put us all at ease.
The issue with this, however, is that it's not just slow, it's a snails pace. You'd probably have to wait at least two generations for your citizens children to gain high enough levels of government in all governments before this would work at all, and then you'd never be sure that they wouldn't become completely assimilated into their new country's culture, which they likely would. You have died of old age twice and it's doubtful it would actually work. The scary thing is that this directive be made from people who as a group lead the whole thing, and then they create sleeper cells, citizens who have been brainwashed that the country they are living in have to be destroyed, and no matter how nice the people seem they are impure and have to die. It's very hard for this incredibly scary form of brainwashing to work if you are 3000 + miles away from the agent, and it's nearly impossible for this directive to extend to children, which it would have to.

I would post what I would do, but the idea came out too well thought and I don't want to give any of you ideas...

[Heinz Guderian]

I would reverse engineer alien technology captured in 1947 using Nazi engineers and scientists and not tell anybody about it.

Then i'd steal oil from Arabs.

[Exarch]

1) i'd send troops to mineral/oil rich countries like central asian countries under the pretext of a 'noble crusade'/war on terrorism.
2) secure the world's supply of oil and strtegic areas, like the 'stans'
3) stop oil flow to enemy countries
4) all the while my elite band of 'sleeper agents' will have infiltrated media outlets and provided my propagand and my 'truth' to all and sundry with everyone thinkign they are being fed 'the truth'

[TomTheSaint]

I thought of a better one:

1) Collect Underpants
2) ???
3) Profit!

[NakedBarbarian2]

1. Legalize all drugs in the west (marijuana, ecstacy, meth, cocaine, heroin etc)
2. Add nicotine and other addictive chemicals to make said drugs even more addictive then they are.
3. Add a 10% tax similar to the GST here in AUstralia
4. Collect all the revenue and control people through their addictions

EDIT: Oh crap now british american tobacco is going to sue me for copy right infringement

[Exarch]

got a new one
1) hoard all the diamonds i can find
2) install diamonds onto a satellite
3) install death ray on satellite
4) demand $$$ and hold world to ransom with my space based laser

(i know this aint the 1960s)

[Duke_of_Bavaria]

With only 9 milion people and basicly no army there's not alot I could do.

[The Super Pope]

As British ruler i would send troops into Commonwealth countries which have difficulties such as Pakistan or Zimbabwe under the pretence of helping the peopl. I would then make these countries dependant on britain and then scale up.

[Hardrada992]

I would ensure that my American corporations spread across the planet so there were at least 100 McDonalds and 200 Wal-Marts in every country.

Then I'd use my corrupt media to get everyone in the world more interested In the elections for "American Idol" then their own political elections.
In spreading the capitalist dream to places like china i would inspire Americanism all across the globe and my work would be complete...
hey i hear something... its the CIA... looks like i was onto something

[Каие]

Or how about not try as everyone who has tried world domination has failed miserably. Napoleon, Romans, Spanish, British, Hitler, USSR. Its nothing but a fantasy.

[Mythos]

WC is impossible outside Paradox games.

The best you can do is create a massive diplomatic web, a massive military with the ability to operate anywhere in the world and help your corporations takeover as much of the world business as possible, while preventing your competitors from doing the same. Also controlling as much of the oil, natural gas and pipelines as possible. Kind of what the US is doing.

[Chaigidel]

I must agree with KB8 it is a fantasy, to dominate all the earth.

or rather it was, but I would like to see it, for it truly is the only chance the human species has of outliving the planet they have been born on.

[Каие]

There will only be world conquest in the way that we come into contact with Aliens and cease calling ourselves countries but the Earth.

[Hookah Smoking Caterpiller]

summon the almighty bidoof to conquer the world with

[Tiberius Nero]

By Zergling rush.

[Holger Danske]

I would hire evil German and Chinese scientist and create a Clone Army of...

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Him..

[Tuor]

1- Enact many many genetic tests on the emo kids of North America and U.K.
2- Genetic tests would confirm that the E-virus could be spread through sexual intercourse and touching ewwww
3- I would keep the emos hostage in a very free roam facility with no razors or sharp objects present and then wait.
4- Eventually someone would feel pressured by these acts and respond.
5. Thus, the emos across the world will all simultaneously blog and the end of the world will come.
6. While all this is happening I, along with a few partners in crime, am watching it all happen on my lay-z-boy recliner inside my biosphere on the moon.