Marathe & Steeply: the anti-Entertainment as a chip for concessions
this really could be some sort of game for you and the F.L.Q., to hold out the promise of the anti-Entertainment as a chip for concessions.
Context
The samizdat war reframed as bargaining politics: O.U.S. suspects the rumored "anti-Entertainment" is a bluff the Separatists and F.L.Q. dangle "as a chip for concessions" — the antidote's existence matters less as fact than as leverage in a negotiation over Québec's status. The Entertainment is not just a weapon but a token in statecraft, its cure a possible diplomatic feint. (The anti-film's content/existence question is entertainment-self's; landed here is the concessions-leverage politics.)