The more a power weaponizes economic choke points against adversaries, the more other powers will defend themselves or retaliate, and that world has come into being.

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• Weaponizing economic choke points has become more acceptable as the United States and China do it, against earlier norms of the economic system. PKPaul Krugman12 Sept 2026similar wording
• States do not merely defend the power they have: they seize every opportunity to gain more that looks cheap and likely to succeed. JMJohn Mearsheimer17 Nov 2023similar wording
• Comparative advantage stops governing once the power imbalance is large enough: groups then switch into seeking to dominate instead of trading. MNMichael Nielsen7 Apr 2026similar wording
• Enemy manipulation of a whole society's information environment is unlikely ever to be decisive in a war, because shaping another society's perceptions is genuinely hard. LFLawrence Freedman17 Aug 2026similar wording
• A continental power fights on its invader's timetable; for a maritime power, whether and when to intervene at all is a matter of strategy. SPSarah Paine9 Jun 2026similar wording

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