• kent_eh
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    14 days ago

    I just feel like this gesture is symbolic at best.

    Governments tend to take incremental measures when trying to get compliance from foreign actors. If you start with the “nuclear option”, you don’t have anywhere to escalate to if that doesn’t get the desired result, or if it causes some other unexpected negative results.