The refined form is unstable, a hair from an objective reality observation fluke collapsing it.
The system that persists in practice is where everybody knows how things are, but still everybody pleads to a fictional status quo, because if they did not, the others would obliterate them.
I know that you and the person you are responding to are joking (probably) but this does in fact seem like a much simpler way of solving the problem and really not much less secure if we are talking about a home computer.
Electricity is the core of a single cell functionality as well, most biomolecules are on the exact boundary between a conductor and an insulator (and likely switch the state based on other molecules binding, pH, etc). A group of cells electricity is a higher level abstraction of that.
In practice the US could already do whatever it wanted in Greenland/Canada etc. The options for the motivation behind the theatrics I see.
1. Instill fear in the vassals->support for militarization rises there->they become more useable as proxies against RF/China
2. Just another Trump silliness
Males are expendable.
In humans, only about a half of males does reproduce.
More 'experiments' are run on males by the nature, the phenotype variance is higher and includes more of excelent and more of detrimental variations, while females stick to the stable functional baseline.
In artillery and similar massive pressure applications are used chlorine based lubricants.
These have the ultimate performance as the chlorine firmly attaches to the metal, but it also destroys the surface immediately (which is not a problem in an one shot application).
Would you argue that these are not lubricants because of that?