Asymetric Vulnerability and Strategic Destabilization: A Descriptive Framework

This project presents a short, descriptive framework for interpreting recent U.S. foreign policy behavior through asymmetric vulnerability and acceptable pain thresholds rather than equilibrium preservation or institutional constraint. The framework is explicitly non-normative and includes operational boundaries and falsifiability conditions. It is intended as a mechanism-level interpretation rather than a policy proposal or prediction of success. The model was developed in response to contemporaneous cross-regional events and is time-stamped to allow retrospective evaluation.