> Cultivating unfair conditions and exerting pressure is just good negotiation. I heavily disagree. Bullying may work in a short term but in the mid to long te

> Cultivating unfair conditions and exerting pressure is just good negotiation. I heavily disagree. Bullying may work in a short term but in the mid to long term it can have disastrous consequences - we're seeing this play out right now with the US government and all its major allies looking for a way out and divesting from the US. Decades worth of "soft power" building effort and hundreds of thousands of lives lost in various wars (WW2 alone >400k!), for nothing, all gone in the space of a few months.