A DISCOURSE  ON THE STATE OF DIPLOMACY, PACTS, AND TREATIES BETWEEN NATIONS WITHIN LOTC   Introduction: A fair number of people in lotc are big fans of diplomacy; many who are experienced, and many who are not. But as I am sure all of our kind have noticed, there is a real lack of things to do around our field of work. So far in my year or so of experience, I have only been able to notice a fairly boring process of joining the diplomatic sector which manifests the following g