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We start with an easy question: How can you have a
"long-range" force at all, given that special relativity and
basic notions of causality require everything to be local in
space and time?
Then: If you start talking to students about "interactions"
there is zero chance that they will understand what you mean.
It's a physics jargon term that is simultaneously highly
technical and rather nebulous. If you're careful you can
explain how a local, short-range, indeed zero-range coupling
can give rise to a long-range net interaction.
However, it's going to take a lot of explaining before the
students have any clue what you're talking about.