From: "Pyrotechie"
To: Soc.Fen.Military
Subj: RE: Worst Case Scenario
> Stingray is one vessel, and Ben Franklin Station is one outpost.
But not the only ones. It's easier to get a look at the VVS base on 2700 Baikonur than it is to count ships at 1625 The NORC. They may not be flying right now, but they're there.
> How easily can any single nation, even one as powerful as the USA, effectively embargo Fenspace?
The same way they embargoed Cuba for half a century - make it clear to their allies that they can do business with the Convention XOR the USA, and one market's a lot smaller than the other. It wouldn't be perfect (heck, Canada ignored a lot of the Cuba embargo and their trade with the USA didn't suffer for it), but it would cut off a lot of stuff from Earth that we can't make yet.
> The Boskonians.
Remember what I said about not wanting to give the Boskos any ideas? This is going onto that list.
K
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
To: Soc.Fen.Military
Subj: RE: Worst Case Scenario
> Stingray is one vessel, and Ben Franklin Station is one outpost.
But not the only ones. It's easier to get a look at the VVS base on 2700 Baikonur than it is to count ships at 1625 The NORC. They may not be flying right now, but they're there.
> How easily can any single nation, even one as powerful as the USA, effectively embargo Fenspace?
The same way they embargoed Cuba for half a century - make it clear to their allies that they can do business with the Convention XOR the USA, and one market's a lot smaller than the other. It wouldn't be perfect (heck, Canada ignored a lot of the Cuba embargo and their trade with the USA didn't suffer for it), but it would cut off a lot of stuff from Earth that we can't make yet.
> The Boskonians.
Remember what I said about not wanting to give the Boskos any ideas? This is going onto that list.
K
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012