Fair enough. I think the point is that’s not power. Not hard power or real power anyway.
It’s soft power, it’s influence. But not much more.
It’s soft power, it’s influence. But not much more.
You defined power as soft power and now you want to say actually it’s hard power. It’s not. They can’t give anyone orders and impose consequences for not following them. That’s what hard power is.
well, they also demonstrably did this?
but I'm pretty done with this "conversation"