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[sliverstorm]

If we or someone else who signed that is the one making a strike, sure. But it won't always be.

It could even be a country that signed it, but is aiming for complete dominance, and throws out the rules because they are already at war with the rest of the world anyway.

[natrius → sliverstorm]

Correct, but you definitely can "increase the backlash further than a declaration of war."