Economic sanctions are a pretty loose term. UN sanctions could mean embargo or it could mean trade tariffs.
Personally, I think it's too overt and heavy handed. No AAA can risk an open corporate war, and that's what would happen if Aztechnology was being backed into a corner. Basic Art of War: Never leave an enemy with no hope of escape, because they will fight doubly hard if they know they have nowhere to go. You destroy an enemy though compromise. Forcing public retreat through shaming is more than a compromise, it's an assault. If anything, it's begging AZT to take some skeletons out of a rival's closet and wave them around to move the public eye.
Not a bright move.
It's appropriate that someone brought up the Cuban Missile crisis. That was a situation where one small faction stared down a much larger faction simply because that smaller faction had the will to END EVERYONE in order to preserve itself. Pretty sure a culture with a positive attitude toward human sacrifice is not the one that people should want to openly challenge. Who knows, maybe the writers in charge will use this as the catalyst to blow up the Consensus thing on us. Aztechnology takes Horizon to the mat and shows the world what The-Devil-You-Don't-Know looks like under its pretties.
