I think you are overestimating the efficacy and underestimating the side effects of such things. How much do you expect a cyber attack to slow things down? Maybe a week if it’s very successful? Meanwhile it still stirs up opposition and division, and puts diplomatic efforts back years.
As the gears to ascension notes, non-injurious acts of aggression share many game theoretic properties as physical violence. I would express the key issue here as legitimacy; if you don’t have legitimacy, acting unilaterally puts you in conflict with the rest of humanity and doesn’t get you legitimacy, but once you do have legitimacy you don’t need to act unilaterally, you can get a ritual done that causes words to be written on a piece of paper where people with badges and guns will come to shut down labs that do things forbidden by those words. Cool huh? But if someone just goes ahead and takes illegitimate unilateral action, or appears to be too willing to do so, that puts them into a conflict position where they and people associated with them won’t get to do the legitimate thing.
I think you are overestimating the efficacy and underestimating the side effects of such things. How much do you expect a cyber attack to slow things down? Maybe a week if it’s very successful? Meanwhile it still stirs up opposition and division, and puts diplomatic efforts back years.
As the gears to ascension notes, non-injurious acts of aggression share many game theoretic properties as physical violence. I would express the key issue here as legitimacy; if you don’t have legitimacy, acting unilaterally puts you in conflict with the rest of humanity and doesn’t get you legitimacy, but once you do have legitimacy you don’t need to act unilaterally, you can get a ritual done that causes words to be written on a piece of paper where people with badges and guns will come to shut down labs that do things forbidden by those words. Cool huh? But if someone just goes ahead and takes illegitimate unilateral action, or appears to be too willing to do so, that puts them into a conflict position where they and people associated with them won’t get to do the legitimate thing.