No telephones/email in Rome..?
Yes, but it didn’t matter because the assumption was anything traded that way would be INTERCEPTED.
THAT is why nothing electronic could substitute for a face-to-face.
The lesson is pretty stark:
Even the US Congress has gone back to the days of “the parking garage meets”.
Wow.
International JETS, because now the Congressional assumption is that the multi trillion $ intel branch’s enemy is the people we voted to elect.
Oh, and US.