Chokepoints, by Edward Fishman

Act III — Fracture
Written By Paul Verhagen

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare (2025)

Documents the United States' transition from free-trade orthodoxy towards one of weaponized interdependence to exercise geopolitical pressure. This is the securitization spiral in documentary form, and it is the single most direct support for my third crisis.

Read it asking: Who started the securitization spiral?

Paul Verhagen
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