America isn’t drifting toward political violence by accident. It’s being incentivized.

We tend to think of destabilization as something foreign adversaries do — Russia exploiting divisions, Iran backing proxies, China shaping narratives. In modern strategy, this activity lives in the “gray zone”: the space between peace and open conflict, where subversion, information, and erosion of trust can achieve what armies cannot.

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