True, I was just going with the idea it sparked in mind. Also I agree sanctions are the go to your room of geopolitics

Majere

I meant it less as an absolute and more as an empirical regularity of history. Sanctions have a really bad track record at accomplishing their stated goals.

Undisciplined

You hear a lot in btc circles about how sanctions are useless.  Based on the little I know, there certainly does seem to be reason to be suspicious.  I do wonder, though, if they're _really_ as useless as bitcoiners like to maintain.  Seems more likely that they have a narrow window of applicability, and, like most things, they get used outside of this window and consequently don't produce the desires results.

elvismercury

bitcoin

_Broken Money_ book club, part 3

Sanctions made themselves obsolete by not working.

I didn't propose a specific form, so it's hard to "play out" my idea, but the point is to disincentivize invasions.