Report #68 concept. The system does not surrender power — it changes the flag. India 1947 was the beta test: Round Table/Chatham House designed the exit, Fabian/LSE pipeline formatted the new leaders, the Radcliffe Line engineered a permanent fracture, sterling balances froze Indian capital, World Bank debt replaced colonial taxation, MI5 liaison officers stayed embedded for 25 years. The template replicated across Malaya, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya. States that escaped it (Algeria, Vietnam) were treated as enemies. The severity of post-independence hostility correlates with a state's refusal to accept bounded independence. The Commonwealth = the empire's software on local hardware. As the current system faces decline toward 2040, expect the same playbook: apparent collapse, new liberation movements, controlled demolition preserving core extraction under new paradigms.