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I mean, if you really think that War! should have been about a civil war in a North African dictatorship in 2010, fine. But it doesn't sound very Shadowrun to me. YMMV.
Not in Libya (that's Desert Wars), but the
way the war in Libya is going, with one side being essentially horribly outmanned and hiring mercenaries from near and far to support their case, which is what the Gaddafi clan is doing right now (has been doing for sime time, substitute the Pan-Africans with Deep Greens for Amazonia, and the East Libyan Forces with the Army of Colombia [Am]). You also have oil reserves in that area, btw, adding to a certain similarity in the theater, but I was more getting at the mercenary oriented nature of the regime forces.
Not that a war by Amazonia because someone planted trees on their territory sounds very SR to me either, but we've already been there.
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However, reading the official news from the West, the East, and then browsing the blogs for some eyewitness evidence surely reminds of SR - spin work overwhelming!
Yeah, especially seeing how the East is pussyfooting around the Arab uprisings - particularily China. And the "we hate the West, you always invade us and only want our oil, now get going and invade Libya" on Al Jazeera.
Or Italy. Priceless.