Day seven of Operation Epic Fury. This episode is not about the debate over Trump. That was 'In the States.' This is a structural radiograph of the system itself: the personnel who sit in the room on day seven, the institutional transformation that preceded them, the information control apparatus that shapes what the public sees, the intellectual architecture that justifies the project, and what political scientists measure when they look at American democracy on March 6, 2026. The machine, not the argument about the machine. Seven structural domains. Seven perspectives steelmanned. Six frameworks applied. Episode 16. ~13,000 words.

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