>>106894646
If you write a law that says "i am allowed to steal everything i feel like", you are shunned and locked out of trade with everyone else. In which case your law doesn't matter anymore, because there is nothing you have access to that you could steal.
That's how the world works. International trade is based on the principle of reciprocity.
Countries adhere to standards because it's beneficial to everyone, not because some big world police comes to punish you.
In this case, the consequence is obvious, even if it is limited to
>>106894084 it was a bad decision harming your own country.
The thing is: They aren't a sovereign country
You think the Americans, that gave the order to do this, give a single flying fuck about about the Dutch? They order them into suicide, they would bus you to the front and sacrifice you in a war while boasting on twitter about it.
This is where the principle of reciprocity fails. It only really works between sovereign nations.
As soon as you are dealing with vassals and serf nations, they indeed are ready to do things that are bad for their own country, because they do not serve their own country.
