> Are these principles so weak that we would allow a dictator who doesn't even have the support of his own people to shake them? In practice the principles don

> Are these principles so weak that we would allow a dictator who doesn't even have the support of his own people to shake them? In practice the principles don't matter too much. The reality is that industry has optimized for cost and converged on a small set of suppliers. The single points of failure introduced as a side-effect of this could certainly be exploited by a bad actor.