The trinity of state decay (1): The mirage and the shadow, By Max Amuchie

Last week, this column offered the definitive articulation of The Insecurity Triad — the convergent system through which kidnapping finances violence, banditry governs territory, and terrorism reshapes the ideological order. It also made a promise: that the Trinity of State Decay would follow as the macro-diagnostic lens — the theory that explains not merely what the Triad does, but why it is structurally possible — why the state does not stop it. Why, in important senses, the state cannot.