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# PACA Manifesto - Clarification Checklist
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## Questions to Resolve
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### ✓ China's Role - RESOLVED
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- **Year 5 default does NOT include Chinese debt**
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- PACA members prioritize paying off Chinese loans early using:
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- Newfound budget from not servicing Western debt
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- Pardner system funds (if approved by Congress for that purpose)
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- Development Fund support where strategically necessary
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- Strategy: Honor Chinese obligations to keep China neutral/friendly rather than hostile
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- Added to manifesto: Pardner system can be used for any approved purpose including debt repayment
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### ✓ Comprador Elite Strategy - RESOLVED
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- **Strategy: Public transparency + nationalism, not targeted co-option**
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- The manifesto itself serves as public signal for all actors to plan accordingly
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- Elite groups can self-select based on their own interests:
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- Those who can adapt (pivot to intra-PACA finance, redirect development, support regional cooperation) will survive
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- Those who cling to Western ties will lose
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- **Military loyalty specifically:** Relies on nationalism and anti-imperialism
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- Officers see visible exploitation (IMF, Chinese extraction, Western companies)
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- Families benefit from PACA trade like everyone else
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- PACA Defense Force offers professional purpose vs. current role suppressing domestic unrest
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- Generational shift: younger officers less invested in Western system
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- **Key dependency:** Only works if governments deliver visible early wins in Years 1-5
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- Coup attempts will happen; mitigated through Tier 2/4 defense support from neighboring members
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- If we don't flip security forces, the whole thing's vulnerable to coups
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- Need concrete strategy for which elites get co-opted vs. isolated
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### ✓ Development Fund Pre-Launch - RESOLVED
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- **How is infrastructure funded during Years 1-5 before Development Fund exists?**
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- RESOLVED: Bilateral trade generates revenue immediately, funding decentralized investment
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- Added clarification in manifesto at line 322
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## Content Gaps to Fill
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### Member States Section
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- Complete African regional details beyond South America and Caribbean
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- Need comprehensive lists for:
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- West African nations (beyond the list in Defense Command section)
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- East/Central African nations
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- Southern African nations
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- Include brief descriptions like Brazil, Mexico, Jamaica, Cuba sections
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### "The Call" Section
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- Currently marked with TODO at line 487
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- Review and refine based on user feedback
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- Verify alignment with actual vision
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- Content exists but needs validation
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## Consistency Checks
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### Timeline Alignment
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- Years 1-3: Bilateral trade, no PACA institutions
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- Years 3-5: Proto-PACA institutions, regional banks
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- Year 5: PACA launches, Development Fund activates, collective default
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- Years 5-7: Crisis management, Western retaliation
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- Years 7-10: Stabilization
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- Years 10+: Prosperity
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**Verify:** All sections use consistent timeline (currently appears consistent)
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### ✓ Debt Default Scope - RESOLVED
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- What debt gets defaulted in Year 5:
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- IMF/World Bank: Yes (collective default)
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- Western bilateral debt: Yes (collective default)
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- Chinese debt: No (members prioritize paying off early using freed budgets)
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- Private sector debt: **Nation by nation decision** - some default, others pay off using Development Fund or freed budgets based on strategic calculations
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### Asset Liquidation
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- Target: 70-80% repositioned by Year 5
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- 20-30% left as "acceptable collateral"
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- What gets liquidated vs. what stays: Individual nation decisions based on strategic calculations
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- **Verify:** This strategy is explained clearly enough for readers to understand
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## Style and Tone
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### Current Style Requirements (from CLAUDE.md)
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- Natural, conversational writing
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- Use contractions
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- Avoid LLM tells (em dashes, semicolons, formal transitions)
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- Start sentences with conjunctions when it flows
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- Vary rhythm
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- Use everyday words
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- End sentences with prepositions if natural
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- Fragments for emphasis
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**Check:** Entire manifesto adheres to style guide (currently appears consistent)
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## Questions Already Answered by Manifesto
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### ✓ Year 5 Default Coordination
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- Can be public/telegraphed because alternative systems already work
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- Addressed in "And yes, they might be reading this right now" section (lines 433-451)
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### ✓ Development Fund Capital Source Post-Default
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- Members redirect 10-15% of budgets (was going to debt service) to Development Fund
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- Generates $250-300B annually
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- Line 62
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### ✓ Infrastructure Funding During Buildup
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- Trade redirection generates revenue immediately
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- Bilateral relationships are independently profitable
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- No central PACA budget needed until Year 5
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- Added clarification at line 322
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## Next Steps
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1. Get user input on China relationship strategy
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2. Get user input on elite co-option strategy (which groups to target)
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3. Decide on scope of debt default (Chinese debt included or not?)
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4. Complete Member States section with African regional details
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5. Review and finalize "The Call" section
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6. Final consistency pass on entire document
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