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When Krishna walked into the Kaurava court, his BATNA was war, not the threat of war, but the certainty of it, backed by moral sanction and divine standing. Duryodhana knew that if he refused, the Pandavas did not collapse, they marched. That knowledge was not soft pressure. It was the hardest leverage in the room. Krishna's BATNA was so strong that his very presence as negotiator was itself a warning. Only Krishna could carry that alternative without it sounding like a bluff