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Engineered Fracture (Permanent Wound)

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What is Engineered Fracture (Permanent Wound)?

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Report #68 concept. When a departing power creates two hostile states from one territory, leaving a deliberate geographic wound that guarantees permanent conflict.

Report #68 concept. When a departing power creates two hostile states from one territory, leaving a deliberate geographic wound that guarantees permanent conflict. India/Pakistan 1947 (Kashmir), Israel/Palestine 1948 (Jerusalem), Korea 1950-53 (38th Parallel), Vietnam 1954 (17th Parallel). The permanent wound ensures both states divert GDP into defense (enriching the departing power's arms industries), permanently prevents regional economic cooperation, and maintains dependency on external arbitration. Not a failure of planning — a feature of it. The Radcliffe Line was drawn in 5 weeks by a man who never visited India. The chaos was the point.
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