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Why Western collapse becomes global collapse

The last 200 years of Western-led technological progress created a hyper‑interdependent global system. If Western civilization collapsed, the world would lose the core infrastructure, knowledge networks, and industrial capacity that sustain modern life—triggering cascading failures in energy, food, medicine, finance, and governance. The collapse would be systemic, not regional.