@Octale @futurebird The counter to this ploy is to add more pans to the scales of power. Captain Kirk could beat Khan because he battled using more dimensions in his thinking. A duopoly entrenched in its own binary struggles cannot effectively strategize away from the line that connects its two antipodes. If the playing field is a plane rather than a line, all their proven successful ploys in their arsenals fail in the face of lateral movements.