This is just a preliminary exploration of the idea of building a new version of Balance of Power that addresses the consequences of the idiotic policies of Mr. Trump. It would be written in JavaScript for web delivery. Some questions:
Should it focus on stupid moves and their consequences?
Should it include smart moves such as leading positive actions?
How does increasing American nationalism provoke increasing nationalism elsewhere?
Or do the other countries keep their senses?
Should the player play as Secretary of State with Trump tweeting away?
Or perhaps Trump randomly intervenes, ruining everything?
Should verbs be general in impact or operate with individualized trees?
Should I include many countries so as to permit lots of individual reactions?
Or should I instead have representative countries?
USA Verbs
Impose Tariffs (magnitude) (commodity) (country)
Conventional anti-nuclear strike (North Korea or Iran)
Limited nuclear strike (North Korea or Iran)
Organize trade sanctions (magnitude) (country)
join TPP
stop paying UN dues
pull out of Paris Accords
anchor a carrier group inside the 7-dash line
pull out of NAFTA
pull out of WTO
Taiwan?
Tweets?
Praise dictator (country)
insult leader (country)
vaguely threaten (country)
undermine NATO
demand increases in NATO country military spending
China verbs
tariff retaliation
propose economic sanctions against USA
push for basket of currencies as primary currency of trade
strengthen military on artificial islands
send missiles over Taiwan
demand that Taiwan surrender
Nuke US carrier group inside 7-dash line
Other countries
Generic
protest US action
warn against US action
eject US forces
Japan:
shift towards China
South Korea
North Korea
provocation
artillery on Seoul
nuke Seoul
nuke Guam
nuke Los Angeles
European Union
Iran
destabilize {Iraq | Syria | Saudi Arabia | Palestine | Egypt }
Build bomb
develop longer-range missiles
Israel
Russia
Canada
Mexico
Processes
Economy
soft power