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Economic warfare and infrastructure leverage.
Fishman documents how the United States learned to weaponize financial infrastructure — SWIFT access, dollar clearing, semiconductor export controls — as a substitute for kinetic force. The book is a detailed account of how infrastructure becomes coercive leverage, and it is impossible to read it and still believe that payment systems, banking rails, or chip supply chains are merely technical. Sovereignty and infrastructure are the same argument stated in different registers.