> Do angry responses mean anything? They don't mean anything on their own. But geopolitics is a game played in the background, calling in favors from other cou

> Do angry responses mean anything? They don't mean anything on their own. But geopolitics is a game played in the background, calling in favors from other countries, telling them to buy less from your enemy and more from you or your allies, offering them loans, or straight up bribery. And if that country has also been treated with disdain by the superpower it's not so hard to see them accepting.