PART VI: THE SELF-INFLICTED WOUND

No one invaded. No one conquered.

American executives sat in rooms where foreign governments stated their terms — give us the knowledge, not just the labor — and said yes. They captured the arbitrage. They knew the knowledge would not return. They proceeded anyway.

This section documents the voluntary surrender of strategic capacity. Not victimhood. Choice. The people who made the choices are named. The warnings they ignored are quoted. The consequences they will not bear are projected onto those who had no seat at the table.