[zepto]

Sure - that’s pretty much how it works. If you own and can defend a jurisdiction where you can do that, other people will likely pay or trade things with you to stop.

[vkou]

A cheaper way to deal with you is to embargo/tariff your exports, until you come back to the negotiating table, hat in hand.

[mPReDiToR]

Not sure that always works.

Hang on, Fidel Castro is on the other line.

[vkou]

That was a life-or-death political issue for the communist party of Cuba (USSR subsidies also mitigated some of the damage the embargo caused). This is just a question of money - which is far more tractable.

[zepto]

Seems like there are some pretty large blocs who won’t embargo you these days.