The superior state engages the weaker state in trade, technology transfer, joint ventures, and other peacetime activities while oblivious to the subtle but powerful strategies being pursued against it by the weaker state or states, a few examples of which I described above.
Foreign businesses have been waiting for months for permission to transfer abroad hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from joint ventures that are sitting in local banks.
Plaid Cymru - whose three MPs form a joint parliamentary party with the SNP six - appears equally reluctant to deal unless the UK government offers a massive transfer of powers from Westminster to Cardiff Bay.