Liberty-Kusari embargo?

[Zelot]

It's not just about "money", it's the economic wellbeing of the nation. Nations aren't people, Zelot. They don't just collect money to roll around in like Scrooge McDuck, they collect it to support the state and (in this case) buy weapons.
The Liberty-Bretonnia trade only included a few snubs and weapons from the sound of it, nothing massive enough to warrant an embargo, especially seeing as
1.) An embargo of 3 items is a pretty big thing if you only export like a dozen things.
2.) Liberty probably has H-fuel reserves meaning a short-term embargo of H-fuel would be about as effective as a fart in an empty bottle.
3.) After centuries of trade with Liberty, the entire market would've been adjusted to it. The embargo would wreck this and cause some pretty massive fluctuations and large-scale. Imagine the Globalisation we have now and add 800 years of peaceful cooperation and trade to it.
4.) Embargoing a house is a bit different than embargoing a nation. There's only four lawful houses that are really viable for one thing. And those houses each control about a quarter of the part of Sirius where all the goods are. Kusari embargoing Liberty would be more like Asia embargoing North America than your analogy of the U.S. embargoing North Korea.

Yes Liberty would be hurt by the embargo, but the massive hit to Kusari's economy and international relations would do far more damage to Kusari than half a dozen snubs with magma hammers could ever hope to do.

I actually dont agree with a single point in your post. They are all based on your assumptions about the international relations and economics of Sirius. Everyone has their opinion about those things, and most of them are different. Yours are no more valid than mine.

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