Alliances Cartoon Analysis

The main visual elements are the two kings in the middle trading valuables with the people from different countries around them. Italy, Russia, Turkey the UK are the distinct countries circling around the men from Germany and the Austro Hungarian Empire. Also, on the side you see the girl on the side crying, and it doesn’t look like the man from turkey is trading anything either, but instead, just sitting out. The issue this political cartoon is about is how not all countries are wealthy enough to trade or even become alliances with other countries. It seems like the one crying on the sidelines isn’t from a very powerful country, and so she doesn’t have anything to trade. I think the cartoonists opinion about the issue is that not all countries in the world have a fair chance with the trading, regardless of being allies or not. The evidence the cartoonist has given is that all the strong countries are the ones trading with the other powerful countries. Austro Hungary, the UK, Russia, and Italy are all trading with each other, but Turkey is out. It also seems like the girl crying on the side is not from a powerful country. The cartoonist could have added in a few more countries there to show the powerful and non powerful countries, also maybe said which country was which more clearly.
This cartoon is a lot like the great powers game because powerful countries made allies with other strong countries, and traded and made negotiations with those strong countries too. Also, if the country was weak, not many people would want to be allies with them either, because if they didn’t have enough wealth to buy industries they wouldn’t be any help in a war.