Great Powers Game Cartoon

This cartoon has quite a few visual elements such as all the different people shaking hands that are wearing different clothes to represent different countries. Also it looks as though a lot of the people are holding on to a piece of paper i assume to be treaties. Some groups have more hands and are giving out more alliances then others. Although there is one group that are shaking hands and another not shaking hands with anyone. I think this cartoon represents the alliances that everyone makes with as many people as they can as to protect themselves. I cant seem to tell what the author thinks of this topic because he shows a girl crying which is negative but everyone else seems to be happy which is good. I think the cartoonist could have included more types of treaties and packs like one country that is firmly shaking someones had or two countries just kind of staring at one another to show weariness. I think this cartoon relates to the Great powers game because it shows how everyone was making alliances to protect themselves and to plan to take someone else out.