Asymmetrical Agreements and Public Trust

Another lesson from Notre Dame's agreement with Eastern Romans is that you can make your agreement so that it is asymmetrical asymmetrical in your favor over time. Not necessarily right at the beginning, but you understand the over time longer horizon outcome of this agreement. You see what I'm saying? So you understand that the best agreements are not the ones that look fair necessarily on day one. They are they quietly shift dependence and independence over time because of this agreement.

Just like again, we always go back to the example from the Sierra Of Hordebiyeh. It may have looked on day one as a weak agreement, but over time it was asymmetrical in favor of the Muslims. So again, the modern application of that as a general rule with the OCGFC, with a national OCGFC, you need to avoid making arrangements with them that will actually deepen your permanent financial dependency upon them through debt traps, through privatization leverage, through critical infrastructure exposure and so forth. Now with BRICS, you you take what how can I say? You take what is gonna build production and trade capacity, and you try to avoid swapping one dependency for another.

So Brix needs to do that, and everyone who's dealing with Brix needs to do that. We don't need to just shift dependency from one to another. The aim is to have options, to have more partners, to have more routes, to have more payment rails, to have more domestic capacity, so that you have sovereignty in your decision making. Lord Adin understood that you you can make a tactical deal. He he was he was able to establish the trust of the population enough that he was able to make a tactical deal without dissolving his own standing, and without dissolving the narrative that he had constructed and conveyed and delivered and convinced the people of with regards to the meaning of their struggle.

So as I said earlier, he he framed the struggle as a religious struggle. He framed the struggle as a long term civilizational struggle against a civilizational project by the French. So you could say, if he had not established his credibility, if he had not established his integrity, if he had not established the public trust and confidence, then if he makes it makes a deal now with the Eastern Romans, that could make him look like, that could make him look bad, that could destroy everything. But he had he had worked so hard to establish that trust and establish that confidence that he knew that he could make that tactical deal with the Eastern Romans without dissolving his credibility. That's that's quite rare in leadership.