The Cycle: Operation Cyclone, the Taliban, and the 50-Year Loop of Arming Tomorrow's Enemy

FractalNode Magazine Issue 002, Article 01 A deep investigation into the cyclical pattern of Western intelligence operations: how the CIA's $695,000 investment in Operation Cyclone (1979) birthed the Taliban, leading to a $8 trillion war — and how the same pattern is repeating with Iran. Traces the 50-year loop from covert operation to conventional war to reconstruction profit, using Brzezinski interviews, Brown University's Costs of War Project, and CSIS production data. Part of FractalNode Magazine Issue 002: The Cost