War Economy Chapter 6: Incompetent Leadership and Economic Fallout

When markets crash during wartime, everyone blames the obvious culprits—bombs destroying factories, supply chains breaking down, trade routes closing. These visible disasters make sense to our brains. They feel like legitimate reasons for economic pain.

But here’s what nobody wants to acknowledge: incompetent leadership destroys more wealth than bombs ever could. Moreover, the damage compounds over the years rather than happening all at once, making it harder to identify and impossible to ignore once you see it.

This chapter examines how leadership failures during wartime create economic disasters that outlast the conflicts themselves. Furthermore, we’ll explore why markets increasingly refuse to believe government narratives, and what happens when institutional trust collapses completely.

The Invisible Hand Versus The Incompetent Fist

Markets are remarkably resilient during wartime. They adapt to destruction, reroute around obstacles, and find ways to function under extreme constraints. History proves this repeatedly. Nevertheless, markets cannot overcome persistent incompetent leadership making catastrophically bad decisions.

Leadership’s Asymmetric Impact on Economic Stability

Poor management in peacetime creates inefficiency and waste. Research quantifies this impact at hundreds of billions annually in lost productivity and turnover costs. During wartime, however, the stakes multiply exponentially.

Consider the difference between competent and incompetent wartime economic leadership:

Competent leadership coordinates resources efficiently, maintains supply chain flexibility, communicates policy clearly, and adapts quickly to changing circumstances. The economy suffers from war, certainly, but it suffers the minimum amount possible given the constraints.

Incompetent leadership compounds every problem war creates. Supply shortages become famines through poor distribution. Inflation spirals because of contradictory monetary policy. Industries collapse from regulatory whiplash. Meanwhile, the population loses faith in institutions that could otherwise maintain economic stability.

This distinction matters enormously. War creates challenges. Incompetence transforms challenges into catastrophes.

The Compounding Nature of Bad Decisions

Individual bad decisions hurt. Sequential bad decisions built on previous errors create cascading disasters. Unfortunately, this describes most wartime governance throughout history.

An incompetent leader makes Decision A based on flawed assumptions. This decision creates Problem B. Rather than acknowledging the error, they double down with Decision C to “fix” Problem B. Decision C makes everything worse, creating Problems D, E, and F. Consequently, each intervention attempting to correct previous mistakes compounds the damage.

Real example from modern conflicts: A government restricts food exports to “ensure domestic supply.” This causes international prices to spike. Trading partners retaliate with their own restrictions. Global food availability crashes. The original country faces worse shortages than if it had done nothing. Therefore, they implement price controls. Black markets emerge. Legal distribution collapses entirely. Famine results—not from war destruction, but from the cascade of incompetent policy responses.

How Poor Decisions Ripple Through Wartime Economies

Economic decisions during conflict create ripple effects that persist for decades. Let’s examine the specific mechanisms through which leadership incompetence destroys economic value.

Currency Mismanagement and Inflation Spirals

Wartime governments face enormous pressure to fund military operations. Competent leaders raise revenues through bonds, taxation, and careful monetary policy. Incompetent leaders simply print money.

The immediate effects feel manageable. The government has funds for the war effort. Soldiers get paid. Suppliers receive payment. Everything seems fine initially.

Then the inflation begins. Small at first—2%, then 5%. But incompetent leadership typically responds by printing more money to offset rising costs. This accelerates inflation. Soon you’re at 10%, then 20%, then hyperinflation territory.

Modern technology hasn’t solved this ancient problem. Digital currencies and electronic payments just allow governments to destroy currency value faster than physical printing presses ever could. Moreover, the speed of modern finance means inflation expectations shift almost instantly once trust breaks down.

Supply Chain Destruction Through Intervention

Markets naturally reorganise supply chains during disruption. Some businesses fail, others adapt, and new entrants emerge, filling gaps. This creative destruction is painful but functional.

Incompetent wartime leadership interrupts this process with heavy-handed interventions. Price controls prevent market clearing. Arbitrary production quotas misallocate resources. Confused regulatory changes create uncertainty that freezes investment.

Each intervention makes the next intervention seem necessary. Controls create shortages. Shortages justify rationing. Rationing requires enforcement. Enforcement breeds corruption. Corruption undermines the entire system. Eventually, official channels barely function while black markets thrive.

Competent leadership would allow price signals to coordinate adaptation. Instead, incompetent leadership replaces price signals with bureaucratic commands that lack the information necessary to actually allocate resources efficiently.

The Trust Destruction Multiplier

Perhaps the most damaging consequence of incompetent leadership is destroyed trust in institutions. Once this trust breaks, economic recovery becomes exponentially harder.

Societal systems rely on institutional trust to function. When citizens believe their leaders are competent and acting in good faith, they accept difficult wartime measures. Rationing works. Bond drives succeed. Economic sacrifices for the war effort gain popular support.

However, once incompetence becomes obvious and trust collapses, cooperation evaporates. People hoard rather than contribute. They dodge rather than comply. Tax evasion becomes patriotic. The informal economy explodes while the formal economy contracts.

Rebuilding trust takes generations. Consequently, the economic damage from destroyed institutional credibility outlasts the war itself by decades.

Policy Uncertainty as Critical Risk Factor

Markets hate uncertainty more than they hate bad news. Bad news gets priced in quickly. Uncertainty prevents pricing anything accurately, which freezes investment and planning.

Incompetent wartime leadership generates maximum uncertainty through contradictory signals, policy reversals, and confused communication. Let’s examine how this manifests.

The Whiplash Effect of Contradictory Policy

Consider a government that announces aggressive monetary tightening one month, then reverses to loose policy the next month, then tightens again. Each reversal represents leadership responding to immediate pressure without a coherent strategy.

Businesses cannot plan under such conditions. Should they invest based on tight money policies? Expand based on loose money? The whipsaw creates paralysis. Therefore, productive investment stops while speculative positioning increases.

This pattern repeats across every policy domain during wartime. Trade policy oscillates. Tax policy changes quarterly. Regulatory approaches shift with the political winds. Meanwhile, the private sector cannot make long-term commitments when government policy might reverse before projects are completed.

Narrative Instability and Market Scepticism

Governments during wartime naturally attempt to maintain public morale through optimistic messaging. This becomes problematic when leadership optimism diverges sharply from observable reality.

Initially, markets give governments the benefit of the doubt. Leadership says economic indicators will improve soon—fine, markets wait. But if improvement never materialises and narratives keep shifting, market participants start ignoring government statements entirely.

This breakdown between political narratives and market reality creates dangerous disconnects. The government claims inflation is “transitory” while markets see persistent price increases. Leadership insists the economy is strong while unemployment climbs. Officials project confidence while GDP contracts.

Once this credibility gap opens, markets stop believing anything the government says. Policy announcements get ignored or trigger opposite reactions from those intended. Consequently, leadership loses its primary tool for managing expectations and coordinating economic behaviour.

The Competency Signal Problem

Markets constantly assess leadership competency through policy quality and consistency. Each decision sends signals about whether leadership understands economic reality.

Competent decisions signal that leadership grasps complex situations and responds appropriately. Markets react by pricing in confidence that future challenges will also be handled well. This confidence itselfstabilisess the economy by encouraging investment and reducing hedging behaviour.

Incompetent decisions signal that leadership doesn’t understand what they’re doing. Markets react by pricing in the expectation that future crises will be mishandled. This expectation becomes self-fulfilling as businesses and individuals take defensive positions that slow economic activity.

The tragedy is that competency signals are much harder to send than incompetency signals. One brilliant policy decision might be luck. Ten brilliant decisions suggest competence. Meanwhile, one catastrophically stupid decision immediately signals incompetence. Therefore, leadership credibility is easy to destroy and painfully slow to rebuild.

Markets vs Political Narratives: The Growing Divide

The gap between government economic narratives and market reality widens during wartime. Understanding this divide helps explain why incompetent leadership creates such severe economic damage.

Why Governments Need Narratives

Political leadership operates partly through persuasion. Wartime governments particularly need public support for difficult measures—rationing, conscription, high taxes, reduced consumption. Maintaining this support requires optimistic framing even when circumstances are grim.

This isn’t inherently dishonest. Morale matters during conflict. Defeatist messaging could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Therefore, some degree of message management serves legitimate purposes.

The problem emerges when narrative management substitutes for actual competent policy. Leaders who believe their own propaganda make decisions based on the narrative rather than reality. Consequently, policies fail because they address the government’s preferred story rather than actual economic conditions.

Market Reality vs Government Fantasy

Markets aggregate information from millions of participants with money at stake. This information aggregation tends toward reality because people betting real money care about accuracy, not narratives.

Government narratives, conversely, often prioritise political needs over accuracy. Leadership wants to project strength and competence regardless of the underlying reality. Moreover, acknowledging failures undermines political support during wartime when unity feels essential.

This creates predictable disconnects:

Government narrative: “Inflation is under control and will normalise soon” Market reality: Inflation expectations rising, bond yields spiking, currency weakening

Government narrative: “Our economic policies are working, and growth will resume shortly”
Market reality: Recession indicators flashing, unemployment rising, business investment collapsing

Government narrative: “Foreign reserves remain strong, and currency is stable” Market reality: Capital flight accelerating, currency defence becomes unsustainable

Each disconnect compounds market scepticism. Eventually, government statements get treated as inverse indicators—whatever they claim, assume the opposite is true.

The Feedback Loop of Incredulity

Once markets stop believing government narratives, a destructive feedback loop begins. Leadership makes announcements intended to calm markets. Markets interpret announcements as confirmation that things are worse than publicly acknowledged. Market reactions worsen. Leadership makes more desperate announcements. Credibility deteriorates further.

Breaking this loop requires actual policy competence, not better communication. Unfortunately, incompetent leadership typically responds with more aggressive messaging rather than substantive policy improvement. Therefore, the credibility gap widens until crisis forces reality acknowledgement.

Institutional Trust Decay: The Long-Term Catastrophe

Beyond immediate economic damage, incompetent wartime leadership destroys institutional trust that took generations to build. This decay creates economic dysfunction lasting decades after conflicts end.

What Institutional Trust Actually Means

Institutional trust isn’t naive faith thatthe government always gets things right. Rather, it’s confidence that institutions follow predictable rules, act in roughly good faith, and possess basic competence.

Strong institutional trust enables economic cooperation at scale. People accept currency because they trust that monetary authorities won’t deliberately destroy its value. Businesses invest based on regulatory frameworks they believe will remain relatively stable. Citizens comply with economic policies they expect to be fairly administered.

Weak institutional trust forces everyone into defensive postures. Don’t hold currency—it might hyperinflate. Don’t invest long-term—rules might change. Don’t comply with policies—enforcement is corrupt anyway. These defensive behaviours, while individually rational, collectively create economic paralysis.

How War Accelerates Trust Destruction

Peacetime incompetence erodes trust slowly. Wartime incompetence accelerates the process catastrophically. Several factors explain this acceleration:

Higher stakes: Wartime mistakes kill people and destroy livelihoods more visibly than peacetime errors. Consequently, incompetence becomes impossible to ignore or excuse.

Increased visibility: Wars focus attention on leadership performance. Media coverage intensifies. Public scrutiny increases. Incompetence that might go unnoticed during peace becomes glaringly obvious during conflict.

Fewer alternatives: During peace, dissatisfied citizens can leave countries or switch between institutions. War often removes these options, forcing people to experience incompetent leadership’s full consequences.

Faster feedback loops: Wartime errors produce consequences quickly. Bad policy in peacetime might take years to show its full effects. During war, the same policy creates a crisis within weeks or months.

These factors combine to strip away institutional legitimacy with remarkable speed. Leaders who inherited substantial institutional credibility can squander it completely in months through persistent incompetence under wartime pressure.

The Generational Impact of Trust Collapse

Once institutional trust collapses, rebuilding requires decades. Citizens who experienced incompetent leadership during wartime never fully trust institutions again. Moreover, they pass this scepticism to their children and grandchildren.

Germany’s post-WWI hyperinflation created generational trauma around inflation that persists over a century later. Elderly Germans who never experienced Weimar hyperinflation still exhibit extreme inflation aversion inherited culturally from grandparents who did experience it.

This generational transmission of institutional scepticism creates lasting economic impacts:

Reduced investment: People who don’t trust institutions hold more assets in tangible form, reducing productive investment in businesses and innovation.

Informal economy growth: When formal institutions lack credibility, economic activity shifts to informal channels that avoid institutional oversight entirely.

Political instability: Lack of institutional trust makes democratic governance harder, sometimes leading to authoritarian alternatives that promise order through strength rather than competence.

Slower growth: Economies dependent on high-trust cooperation (like knowledge economies) struggle when institutional trust is damaged.

These impacts persist long after the war that destroyed trust has ended. Consequently, incompetent wartime leadership creates multi-generational economic damage.

Central Bank Interference: The Ultimate Credibility Destroyer

Central bank independence theoretically protects monetary policy from political pressure. During wartime, however, this independence often collapses as governments demand monetary support for war financing. The resulting central bank interference creates especially severe and lasting economic damage.

Why Central Bank Independence Matters

Central banks maintain currency value through credible commitments to price stability. This credibility allows them to influence economic outcomes through expectation management as much as through actual policy actions.

When central banks are credibly independent, their inflation targets are believed. Businesses and workers set prices and wages based on expected inflation, matching the central bank target. These expectations become self-fulfilling, making inflation control easier.

Conversely, when central banks lack credibility, their targets get ignored. Everyone expects high inflation regardless of announced targets. These high inflation expectations also become self-fulfilling, making inflation control nearly impossible.

How War Destroys Central Bank Independence

Wartime governments need massive funding that taxation and borrowing alone cannot provide. The temptation to use monetary policy for fiscal financing becomes overwhelming. Therefore, even nominally independent central banks face enormous pressure to accommodate government demands.

This accommodation takes various forms:

Direct monetary financing: The central bank purchases government debt directly, essentially printing money to fund war spending.

Yield curve control: The central bank suppresses interest rates to reduce government borrowing costs, preventing market pricing of sovereign debt risk.

Reserve requirement manipulation: Forcing banks to hold more government debt through regulatory requirements rather than market incentives.

Currency intervention: Preventing natural currency depreciation that would reduce the government’s real debt burden but would also signal fiscal unsustainability.

Each accommodation undermines central bank credibility. Markets recognise that monetary policy serves fiscal needs rather than price stability. Consequently, inflation expectations detach from central bank targets and respond instead to fiscal trajectory.

The Post-War Credibility Problem

Once the war ends, governments typically want to restore central bank independence and credibility. Unfortunately, rebuilding credibility proves enormously difficult after it’s been sacrificed for wartime fiscal needs.

Central banks must convince markets they’ll prioritise price stability even if it means economic pain. This requires demonstrating commitment through actions, not just words. Often, this means engineering recessions to break inflation expectations—politically difficult after populations already suffered through war.

The degradation of institutional credibility through wartime interference creates a trust deficit that makes post-war economic management substantially harder. Markets don’t believe reassurances about renewed independence. They demand proof through painful monetary tightening.

Countries that delay this credibility restoration often experience years or decades of elevated inflation and economic underperformance. The wartime decision to sacrifice central bank independence thus creates economic costs extending far beyond the conflict period.

Case Study Patterns: Incompetence Across Conflicts

Historical patterns of wartime economic mismanagement repeat with remarkable consistency. Understanding these patterns helps identify incompetence early, potentially limiting damage.

The Currency Destruction Pattern

Nearly every major modern conflict features this sequence:

1. War begins, and the government needs funding
2. Initial funding through bonds and taxes seems inadequate
3. Monetary expansion begins “temporarily” to support the war effort
4. Inflation starts rising
5. The government denies inflation or claims it’s temporary
6. Inflation accelerates
7. Currency controls were implemented to prevent capital flight
8. Black market exchange rates diverge from official rates
9. Currency collapses
10. Hyperinflation or severe inflation results

This pattern played out in both World Wars, the Vietnam War era inflation, numerous regional conflicts, and continues in modern warfare. The specific details vary, but the fundamental sequence remains remarkably consistent.

The Supply Chain Intervention Disaster

Another repeating pattern involves government intervention in supply chains:

1. War disrupts normal supply chains
2. Shortages appear in some goods
3. The government implements price controls to prevent “profiteering”
4. Price controls create more severe shortages
5. Rationing is implemented to allocate scarce goods
6. Black markets emerge, offering goods at market prices. The government attempts to enforce against black markets
7. Corruption spreads through the enforcement apparatus
8. The official distribution system barely functions
9. War ends, but controls remain, prolonging economic dysfunction

This pattern also transcends specific conflicts and political systems. Capitalist democracies and communist dictatorships alike follow remarkably similar paths when incompetent leadership mismanages wartime supply chains.

The Credibility Collapse Sequence

The destruction of institutional credibility follows predictable stages:

1. Initial crisis generates support for strong leadership measures
2. Leadership makes optimistic promises about quick solutions
3. Promised solutions fail to materialise
4. Leadership blames external factors for failures
5. Public scepticism begins to emerge
6. Leadership doubles down on narrative management
7. The gap between narrative and reality becomes undeniable
8. Public trust collapses suddenly
9. Leadership loses the ability to coordinate economic behaviour
10. Economic dysfunction accelerates until new leadership emerges. Recognising these patterns allows observers to identify when economies are following trajectories toward serious dysfunction. Unfortunately, political incentives typically prevent course correction until after major damage occurs.

Why Incompetence Persists: The Selection Problem

If incompetent leadership creates such severe economic damage, why does it happen repeatedly? The answer lies in how wartime pressures interact with leadership selection mechanisms.

Wartime Selection for Wrong Traits

Peacetime leadership selection theoretically favours competence, though imperfectly. Democratic elections, bureaucratic promotion, and market competition create some pressure toward selecting capable leaders.

War disrupts these selection mechanisms. Suddenly, different traits become prized:

Peacetime valued traits: Analytical thinking, coalition building, long-term planning, nuanced communication

Wartime valorised traits: Decisiveness, strength projection, simple messaging, aggressive confidence

These wartime-valued traits correlate poorly with economic policy competence. Moreover, they often correlate negatively—leaders selected for appearing strong and decisive frequently lack the humility and analytical capacity for sound economic management.

The Confidence-Competence Paradox

Truly competent leaders understand complexity and express appropriate uncertainty about outcomes. This intellectual humility makes them seem weak during crises when populations crave confident leadership.

Incompetent leaders, lacking understanding of complexity, express absolute confidence about simple solutions. This confidence is attractive during a crisis, even though it’s entirely unfounded.

Consequently, wartime leadership selection often favours confidently incompetent leaders over cautiously competent ones. The population gets the strong, decisive leadership it thinks it wants—which then proceeds to make catastrophically bad economic decisions.

Why Incompetent Leaders Rarely Get Removed

One might expect that incompetent wartime leaders would get replaced quickly once their failures become obvious. Several factors prevent this correction:

Rally-round-the-flag effect: Wartime populations often support leadership despite failures, viewing criticism as unpatriotic.

Sunk cost psychology: Admitting leadership is incompetent means acknowledging previous sacrifices were wasted, which people resist.

Opposition suppression: Wartime often justifies restricting political opposition under national security rationales, preventing alternatives from emerging.

Complexity obscures causation: Distinguishing damage caused by war versus damage caused by incompetent policy proves difficult, allowing leaders to blame all problems on the enemy.

These factors combine to entrench incompetent leadership well beyond the point where their economic mismanagement becomes obvious. By the time replacement occurs, enormous damage has already accumulated.

What Markets Do When Trust Collapses

When markets lose faith in leadership competence and institutional credibility, they adapt in ways that protect individual participants but worsen collective outcomes. Understanding these adaptations helps explain why economic recovery from trust collapse proves so difficult.

Capital Flight and Asset Shifting

The most immediate market response to collapsing institutional trust is capital flight. Money flows out of the country and into assets perceived as safer. This includes:

Foreign currency: Local currency holdings convert to dollars, euros, or other trusted foreign currencies

Foreign assets: Investment shifts from domestic to foreign stocks, bonds, and real estate

Precious metals: Gold and silver holdings increase as hedges against currency collapse

Cryptocurrency: Despite volatility, crypto offers an exit from domestic monetary control

Each individual decision to shift assets is rational self-protection. Collectively, these decisions accelerate the very currency collapse people fear. Capital flight reduces domestic investment, weakens the currency further, and forces the government to either accept depreciation or impose capital controls that destroy remaining trust.

Time Preference Shifts

When institutional trust collapses, people’s economic time preferences shift dramatically toward the present. Planning for the future becomes pointless when you don’t trust institutions to maintain stable rules.

This manifests as:

Consumption over savings: Spend money now rather than save for an uncertain future

Current income over investment: Take cash payment rather than equity or long-term compensation

Liquid assets over illiquid: Prefer easily sold assets to long-term investments

These preference shifts are individually rational but collectively disastrous. The economy needs long-term investment and patient capital to function well. When everyone shifts to short time horizons simultaneously, productive investment collapses.

Informal Economy Expansion

As trust in formal institutions declines, economic activity migrates to informal channels. Transactions happen in cash to avoid taxation and regulation. Businesses stay small to remain under the official radar. Labour happens off-books.

The informal economy can grow impressively large in high-trust-collapse environments—sometimes exceeding the formal economy entirely. While this allows some economic function to continue, it creates severe problems:

Tax revenue collapse: Government cannot fund even basic services when the economy goes informal

Reduced productivity: Informal businesses stay small and cannot capture economies of scale

Limited access to credit: Informal activity cannot access the banking system for capital

Legal vulnerability: Participants have no legal recourse in disputes

Informal economy expansion thus represents an adaptation that allows survival but prevents prosperity.

Breaking the Cycle: What Actually Works

Given the severe damage incompetent wartime leadership causes, what actually prevents or mitigates this pattern? Unfortunately, the answers are unsatisfying because they require exactly the institutional strength and leadership quality that war tends to destroy.

Institutional Resilience Through Independence

The most effective protection is institutional structures that maintain independence even under wartime pressure. This requires:

Constitutional constraints: Hard limits on executive power that cannot be easily suspended

Central bank independence: Legal protection for monetary policy autonomy with credible enforcement

Judicial review: Courts that can actually constrain executive overreach

Bureaucratic professionalism: Civil service insulated from political pressure

These protections work imperfectly at best. Moreover, establishing them requires exactly the competent, foresighted leadership that is in short supply. Nevertheless, countries with stronger institutional independence typically experience less severe economic damage during conflicts.

Transparent Accountability Mechanisms

When leadership mistakes get acknowledged quickly and publicly, course corrections become possible. This requires:

Free press: Media that can report failures without fear of repression

Legislative oversight: Functioning checks from other branches of government

Public information access: Citizens can see actual data rather than just government narratives

Protection for whistleblowers: People who expose failures face limited retaliation

Again, wartime pressures tend to weaken exactly these accountability mechanisms under national security rationales. Countries that maintain them nevertheless tend to catch and correct incompetent policies faster.

Succession Planning and Leadership Diversity

Having alternative leadership ready when incumbents fail limits damage from individual incompetence. This involves:

Developed bench strength: Multiple capable potential leaders,s rather than a personality cult

Term limits: Preventing indefinite hold on power

Decentralised authority: Not all decisions run through a single leader

Coalition governance: Multiple parties or factions forcing compromise and review

These structures limit how much damage any single incompetent leader can cause. Nevertheless, wartime often creates pressure toward centralised leadership that weakens these protections.

The Bottom Line: Leadership Matters More Than Bombs

Wars destroy physical capital—factories, infrastructure, housing. This damage is visible, dramatic, and relatively straightforward to rebuild. Given peace and reasonable policy, economies recover from physical destruction within a generation.

Incompetent leadership destroys institutional capital—trust, credibility, functional systems. This damage is invisible, subtle, and requires generations to rebuild. Moreover, the damage actively prevents the good policy necessary for economic recovery.

Therefore, the economic legacy of wartime depends less on how many bombs fell and more on how competent leadership was in managing the economic consequences. Countries with terrible physical destruction but competent leadership can recover rapidly. Countries with minimal physical damage but incompetent leadership can stagnate for decades.

Modern conflicts increasingly demonstrate this pattern. The limiting factor for economic recovery typically isn’t reconstruction capacity—it’s institutional function and trust restoration. These depend entirely on leadership quality.

Consequently, when evaluating wartime economic prospects, focus less on battle outcomes and more on leadership competency signals. Markets increasingly recognise this reality, which explains growing divergence between political narratives and market reactions.

The bombs eventually stop falling. The consequences of incompetent leadership persist for generations.

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Disclaimer: This chapter provides an analysis of historical patterns and economic theory regarding leadership competence during wartime. It does not constitute political advice, investment guidance, or predictions about specific conflicts. Views expressed represent analysis of general patterns, not endorsement of particular political positions. Economic outcomes depend on countless variables beyond leadership quality alone.

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