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>How does distrust create trust exactly?

I think the idea is that it forces allies to interact with genuine intentions, lest one tries to deceive the other and is caught because of some intelligence that's been gathered.

It's the backbone of a gentleman's agreement between allies to not act maliciously toward each other.




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