King Arts
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I mean that’s actually false because unless you are wanting to make other nations go commie or try autoarky you want to engage with trade with them. As much as you don’t like China now it’s better than it was under Mao.Conflicts govern themselves by their own rules. Of course Russia, under anything remotely resembling current management, is not someone to count on for investment, and if so, it would probably be used maliciously against you.
Same goes for China. You would rather not have them invest than buy control over your tech companies, universities or banks and then use it in service of the CCP, already happened way too many times. Already happened many times. Credibility is something you want with friends and neutrals, unwillingness to strike against enemies is not credibility, it's weakness.
Would a hypothetical neutral state be more willing to side with your enemies and go against you if they knew that in response you will take all their assets you can get your hands on, or if they were convinced that you won't take any of their assets at all no matter what they do?
Especially if when forced to take sides, the other side subscribes to the former option.
Also again credibility with friends and neutrals and rivals. You can take away assets of enemies but to be an enemy you are in a shooting war. Doing that shit with sanctions and all that will make other nations pull out of your economy. After all it’s not that big of a step from sanctions for what a nation is doing outside its borders like Russia now to doing sanctions for what a nation does inside its borders. I mean yeah right now it’s Russia but in the future whose to say some other country won’t run afoul because they don’t have gay marriage or something.