[Nevermark]

> When dealing with Western actors, this is symmetric warfare. If you are a political party and the opposition impersonates you, you could do the same back.

No it isn’t symmetric.

There is no balance between party A being fraudulent so party B now needs to be fraudulent.

In both cases, the public C is the victim.

A permissive tit for tat view of fraud, simply encourages an arms race of victimization.

Organized crime groups compete too. That competition doesn’t result in some kind of optimal societal impact balance in the absence of legal responses either.