F1, OPINION: Is it a good idea to provoke a team like Mercedes, Red Bull?

First it was Helmut Marko at the end of the Emilia Romagna F1 GP, now it’s the turn of Jos Verstappen, Max Verstappen’s father, to let his gall against Lewis Hamilton, due to the fact that he ‘took’ a lap ahead of the Dutchman.
Personally, I think these two characters are bad for attitudes like this.
That’s fine for some fans on social media, but never for people with the responsibilities of Helmut Marko and Jos Verstappen.
Looking back, Helmut Marko told Sky F1 microphones when asked what must be going through Hamilton’s mind right now after losing a lap to Max Verstappen. “maybe he’s thinking he should have stopped last year!”.
Now it was Verstappen’s father’s turn to have been “nice to see” his son ride Lewis Hamilton at Imola.
It’s not news to anyone that Mercedes has serious problems to solve, and you can see this “filling in the chest” of the Red Bull men, after seven straight years of defeats, and a year in which they won the way everyone else did. remember, but these statements show the ‘bad side’ of the one who utters them.
Obviously I understand them, but if there’s one thing I’m sure of is that it’s not a very good idea to provoke a team like Mercedes, because it could backfire on them, and if things don’t go well for Red Bull , even if Mercedes is not the winner, no one will miss the opportunity to give change, and even on the track, Red Bull can have in Mercedes, ironically, someone extremely motivated for something like “it’s not for us, but it’s not for us either. it will be for you”, and if Mercedes recovers, as it is expected to do, even if it doesn’t go in time to fight for the titles, it can perfectly well go in time to ‘steal’ them from Red Bull, to offer, for example, to Ferrari , and that’s why it’s never very good to “make friends” in this way, with statements that will only stir up tempers.
What Sergio Pérez did to Lewis Hamilton in Abu Dhabi 2021 is perfectly natural and to be expected, but I was not very surprised, and it is perfectly possible, to have one or two Mercedes on the same track, at the end of this year, serving as a buffer for Red. Bull as Vitaly Petrov served as a buffer to Fernando Alonso for over a decade.
There are always two ways to model attitudes: with respect, for those who are on the low end, or doing as Helmut Marko and Jos Verstappen did. Let’s see if one day they won’t have to pay this lack of respect with interest…