Introduction: Bloodless Suffocation and the Cleansing Power of Conflict

Everyone opposes cruel wars. The author and the readers of this book stand together on the side of humanity, firmly against violent conflict. Every life lost in war is a tragedy for civilization. However, look at the global economic ruins of 2026—a world shaped by the Great Depression, the Cold War, globalization, and decades of long peace. As we study this reality, a cruel and counterintuitive rule of macroeconomics emerges from history:

Absolute peace is just a fake cure-all pill. It acts like a long-term, addictive painkiller that eventually drains the life out of a nation.

Human political systems have lost the ability to use small, sharp conflicts to clear out corrupt interest groups and break down failing financial networks. When this happens, the price of peace becomes an endless, slow pain and a sense of mental suffocation for all humanity. In 2026, modern people face high housing prices, fading social mobility, exploding government debt, and currencies that rapidly lose value. These problems are actually the high interest we pay over time just to maintain absolute peace—an expense that is driving countries to bankruptcy.

True evolution requires tough, undeniable conflicts. Similarly, the financial system cannot clean itself without a sharp economic reset. This book examines the period before World War II, the financial collapse of Iran, and the broad debts of modern global powers (including the US, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, France, and Germany). It also exposes the reality of the Western military-industrial complex. Through these examples, this book will show you a critical reality: how humanity, resting in a comfortable but temporary peace, has wasted the national credit that should only be used during major crises, finally trapping itself in a slow, inescapable decline.

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