Kurdistan in the new Middle Eastern Geopolitics

By Dr. Pshtiwan Faraj

Kurdistan's future will depend on whether it can turn geography, energy, security and regional connectivity into durable strategic influence in the Middle East.

The future of Kurdistan in the Middle East will not be decided by a single referendum, a constitutional amendment in Baghdad, a peace agreement in Ankara, or a change of government in Tehran. It will be determined by whether Kurdish actors can convert geography, institutions, energy, security capabilities, economic connectivity and international relationships into durable strategic power. The Kurdistan Region of Iraq has entered a period in which its traditional model of autonomy is under pressure at precisely the moment when its geopolitical importance is increasing. Baghdad is acquiring new instruments of leverage, Turkey is redefining its regional role, Iran is confronting a transformed security environment, Syria is undergoing a fundamental political transition, Washington is reconsidering the architecture of its regional presence, and economic corridors are beginning to redraw the map around Kurdistan. The central paradox is therefore becoming unmistakable: Kurdistan may be becoming more strategically important at the same time that some of the foundations of its autonomy are becoming more fragile.

This tension defines the next chapter of Kurdish politics. The question is no longer simply whether the Kurdistan Region can preserve the autonomy established after 1991 and constitutionally recognized after 2003. The more consequential question is whether it can transform that autonomy into a more resilient form of strategic interdependence. KPA's recent outlook for 2027 argued that Kurdistan is approaching a crossroads between autonomy, centralization and a new regional order. That crossroads is now becoming broader than Iraq. Kurdistan is increasingly positioned at the intersection of several regional systems, meaning that its future will depend not only on its relationship with Baghdad but also on how effectively it navigates Ankara, Tehran, Damascus, Washington and the emerging economic geography of the Middle East.

Kurdistan's Greatest Asset Is Also Its Greatest Vulnerability

Geography has always been the foundation of Kurdish strategic importance. Kurdistan sits between Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria, while its political, economic and security relationships extend into Europe and the United States. This position has historically made Kurdish territories vulnerable to the rivalries of larger states, but it also gives the Kurdistan Region something increasingly valuable in a Middle East being reorganized around energy routes, trade corridors, border security and connectivity: strategic centrality.

The problem is that geography does not automatically produce power. A territory becomes strategically valuable only when its institutions can convert geography into leverage. The Kurdistan Region has repeatedly demonstrated that it can serve as an energy corridor, security partner, diplomatic meeting ground and commercial gateway. Yet the same geography has also exposed it to missile strikes, economic pressure and the strategic calculations of neighboring states. During the U.S.-Iran confrontation, the Region became a frontline despite repeatedly emphasizing neutrality. The lesson is profound: neutrality does not necessarily protect a territory whose geography has strategic value to competing powers.

This is why the future Kurdish strategy cannot be based on avoiding regional geopolitics. Kurdistan is already inside regional geopolitics. The objective must instead be to make its participation sufficiently valuable that external actors have greater incentives to preserve its stability than to exploit its vulnerabilities.That requires a transformation from strategic exposure to strategic indispensability.

The Baghdad Question Will Remain Fundamental

No external strategy can compensate for a deteriorating relationship with Baghdad. The Kurdistan Region remains constitutionally part of Iraq, and the future of its autonomy will continue to depend on whether federalism can evolve from a contested constitutional principle into a functioning political settlement.

The problem is that Baghdad's leverage has expanded considerably. Oil exports, salary transfers, customs revenues, banking arrangements and federal institutions increasingly give Baghdad instruments through which it can influence Erbil's room for maneuver. KPA's analysis of Baghdad's centralization argued that the most important battleground is increasingly economic sovereignty rather than territory. That is an important distinction because autonomy can be weakened without a single constitutional article being formally abolished.

The transformation of the oil dispute illustrates the point. For years, independent Kurdish oil exports provided Erbil with an economic instrument that could partially offset its dependence on Baghdad. The international arbitration process and subsequent restructuring of exports fundamentally altered that balance. KPA's pipeline analysis examined how the Iraq-Turkey pipeline became more than an energy route: it became an instrument of political bargaining over Kurdish autonomy, Iraqi sovereignty and Ankara's regional position.

The wider oil dispute is therefore unlikely to disappear simply because crude exports resume. The underlying question—who possesses effective authority over Kurdistan's natural resources—remains a question about the distribution of power inside Iraq. KPA's examination of the oil dispute shows why the issue extends beyond revenue: it involves federalism, foreign investment, sovereignty and the constitutional future of Iraq itself.

Kurdistan's strategic objective should therefore not be permanent confrontation with Baghdad. Nor should it accept a gradual erosion of its constitutional position in exchange for short-term fiscal stability. The sustainable model is negotiated interdependence: Baghdad needs Kurdistan's geography, energy resources and security capabilities, while Kurdistan needs Iraq's constitutional framework, market and fiscal system. The challenge is to ensure that this mutual dependence remains reciprocal.

Internal Kurdish Politics Are Becoming a Strategic Issue

The greatest obstacle to that strategy may lie inside Kurdistan. Kurdish political competition is not new. The KDP and PUK have always represented different political traditions, geographic constituencies and external relationships. Competition can even be beneficial when it produces accountability and political pluralism. The problem arises when competition prevents the regional institutions themselves from functioning effectively.

Kurdistan's prolonged political deadlock is therefore more than an administrative inconvenience. It reduces Erbil's bargaining capacity precisely when Baghdad, Ankara, Tehran and Washington are recalibrating their policies. A region that wants to negotiate with several major powers simultaneously needs institutions capable of making decisions, implementing agreements and maintaining strategic continuity.

The future of Kurdish politics therefore requires a distinction between political competition and institutional fragmentation. The former is inevitable and potentially healthy. The latter is strategically dangerous. Kurdistan does not need to eliminate its internal political differences. It needs to prevent those differences from disabling the institutions that represent Kurdistan externally. This becomes particularly important in security policy.

The Peshmerga Question Is Really About the Future of Federalism

The Peshmerga have become one of the clearest tests of Iraq's ability to reconcile federalism with a functioning state security architecture. 

Baghdad's emerging campaign to bring weapons under state control could potentially strengthen Iraq if it genuinely targets unaccountable armed power. But the debate becomes far more complicated when Iran-aligned factions attempt to place the Peshmerga in the same category as militias operating outside the constitutional structure. KPA's recent analysis of Iraq's disarmament crisis argued that the comparison risks conflating constitutionally recognized regional forces with armed organizations whose political and military structures are closely tied to external actors.

The Peshmerga nevertheless have a genuine institutional problem. Their historical division between forces associated with the KDP and PUK remains an obstacle to building a genuinely unified regional security institution. KPA's latest assessment of reform emphasizes why military reform is central to the Region's future rather than merely an administrative project.

A stronger Kurdistan therefore needs neither the abolition of the Peshmerga nor the preservation of party-based military structures. It needs a professional, unified and accountable regional security force capable of coordinating with Baghdad while retaining the constitutional security responsibilities of the Kurdistan Region. The strategic objective should be institutionalization rather than demilitarization.

That distinction will become increasingly important as Iraq attempts to redefine its security architecture after the reduction of the international coalition presence.

Security Independence Is Becoming More Urgent

The recent wave of missile and drone attacks has exposed another vulnerability: Kurdistan's dependence on external protection.

KPA's analysis of the Region's air-defense crisis argued that the American military drawdown is forcing Erbil to confront a difficult reality. The Region cannot simultaneously seek strategic autonomy and remain dependent on external actors to protect its airspace and critical infrastructure.

This does not mean Kurdistan should attempt to become militarily self-sufficient. That would be unrealistic. It means that it needs enough indigenous capability to make attacks more costly, protect critical infrastructure and reduce the vulnerability created by the withdrawal or redeployment of foreign forces.

The security agenda must therefore expand beyond conventional Peshmerga capabilities to include air defense, intelligence, counter-drone systems, cyber protection, critical infrastructure security and integrated command structures.

The future battlefield around Kurdistan will not necessarily resemble the wars of the past. A drone launched hundreds of kilometers away can now threaten an airport, energy facility, political headquarters or residential area. The distinction between military and economic security is consequently disappearing.

Iran Will Remain the Most Difficult Neighbor

Iran represents perhaps the most complicated external challenge. Tehran has political, economic and security relationships across Iraq, including with Kurdish actors. At the same time, it views Iranian Kurdish opposition organizations operating from Iraqi territory as a major national-security threat.

The transformation of the Kurdish question following the PKK's dissolution makes this even more important. KPA's recent analysis of how Iran is emerging as the new center of the Kurdish geopolitical struggle argued that the simultaneous transformation of the PKK, Syrian Kurdish forces and Iranian Kurdish organizations is creating a new security architecture involving Ankara, Tehran, Washington and the Kurdistan Region.

For Kurdistan, the challenge is to prevent this transformation from turning Iraqi territory into a permanent arena of confrontation.

The recent experience is instructive. The proposed corridor for Iranian Kurdish forces demonstrated that outside actors can imagine Kurdistan as a strategic platform without fully accounting for Kurdish interests. Erbil ultimately had powerful reasons to prevent its territory from becoming the launching point for a major offensive against Iran.

That episode reveals something important about Kurdish strategic thinking: Kurdistan increasingly wants to be an actor, not a platform. It does not want to become the battlefield through which other states pursue their wars.

Turkey Could Become Kurdistan's Most Important Strategic Partner

If Iran represents the most difficult security relationship, Turkey may represent the greatest long-term economic opportunity.

Turkey's relationship with Kurdistan has traditionally revolved around oil, trade and security. But the strategic equation is changing as Ankara seeks to position itself as an energy and transportation hub linking Iraq and the Gulf with European markets.

KPA's analysis of Turkey's emerging corridor strategy shows why this matters. Ankara increasingly sees Iraqi energy not merely as a source of crude but as part of a larger network involving oil, gas, electricity and regional transportation. Kurdistan should seek to become an integral component of that network. But integration must not become dependence.

Turkey should be a strategic partner, not a patron. Kurdistan's objective should be to diversify its external relationships sufficiently that Ankara benefits from Kurdish stability without possessing an effective veto over Kurdish economic policy.

This is why trade, infrastructure, tourism, manufacturing and logistics are strategically important. They give Kurdistan multiple economic relationships rather than a single dependency centered on oil exports.

The Kurdish Question Is Becoming Regional Again

The transformation of Turkey's Kurdish policy could also have profound consequences beyond Turkey.

KPA's analysis of the peace process argued that the Iran war temporarily froze Ankara's engagement with the PKK, demonstrating how quickly a domestic Kurdish process can be transformed by regional conflict.

The wider lesson is that the Kurdish question can no longer be treated as four separate national questions.

Developments in Turkey influence Syria. Developments in Syria influence Iraq. Developments in Iraq influence Iran. Iranian pressure affects Iraqi Kurdistan. Turkish security concerns affect the PKK and the KRG. American policy connects all of these theaters.

KPA's broader analysis of the Kurdish question during the Iran war highlighted this interconnectedness: when Middle Eastern conflicts intensify, Kurdish politics often becomes the connective tissue between otherwise separate theaters.

This could become either a vulnerability or an opportunity.

If Kurdish actors remain divided, regional powers can manage each Kurdish theater separately. If Kurdish political actors develop greater diplomatic coordination while respecting their different political contexts, the Kurdish geopolitical space could acquire considerably more strategic weight. 

Syria May Become Kurdistan's Next Diplomatic Frontier

The future of Syria will directly affect Kurdistan. The Syrian Kurdish question is now being negotiated within a wider struggle between Damascus, Ankara, Washington and Kurdish political actors. The Kurdistan Region has an unusual advantage in this environment: it maintains relationships with Baghdad, Washington, Damascus, Turkey and Kurdish actors in northeastern Syria.

KPA's recent assessment of Syria highlighted the growing diplomatic role of Nechirvan Barzani, whose meetings with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa have created an additional channel between Erbil, Damascus and the broader Kurdish question. This could become one of Kurdistan's most valuable diplomatic assets.

Erbil does not need to control Syrian Kurdish politics. It needs to prevent Syria from becoming another regional war that spills across Kurdish territories. A stable and politically inclusive Syria would be strategically preferable for Kurdistan to a fragmented Syria dominated by competing armed groups and foreign interventions. At the same time, Kurdish rights in Syria remain relevant to the broader Kurdish political environment.

The optimal Kurdish position is therefore neither maximalism nor abandonment. It is political integration with meaningful Kurdish guarantees.

Washington's Kurdish Strategy Is Changing

For decades, American policy toward the Kurds was primarily defined by security cooperation: ISIS, counterterrorism, intelligence and military assistance. That model is evolving.

Washington's emerging regional strategy increasingly emphasizes energy, trade, infrastructure, technology and connectivity. KPA's analysis of the Kurds as a connecting link in American strategy argues that Kurdish actors could occupy an important position between Iraq, Syria and Turkey precisely because their political networks and geographic position intersect these systems.

This is potentially more important than a traditional security partnership. A military partnership can be reduced when the threat changes. Economic and infrastructure networks create more durable forms of interdependence. Kurdistan should therefore seek to make itself useful to Washington not only as a security partner but as a platform for regional stability, energy connectivity, trade and diplomacy.

At the same time, Kurdish policymakers should avoid the illusion that American support is permanent.

The Washington strategy emerging in Erbil shows that Kurdish policymakers increasingly understand the importance of professional engagement with the American political system. But lobbying cannot substitute for strategic capability.

The most effective argument Kurdistan can make in Washington is ultimately not that it deserves protection, but that a stable, economically connected and institutionally capable Kurdistan serves American interests in Iraq and the wider region.

Energy Must Become a Strategic System, Not a Revenue Stream

The traditional Kurdish economic model was built around hydrocarbons. That model generated extraordinary growth but also produced structural vulnerabilities. The future requires a transition from oil dependence toward energy diversification.

KPA's recent examination of gas governance and the Khor Mor agreement demonstrates why natural gas may become one of Kurdistan's most strategically important resources.

Gas has a different geopolitical value from oil because it can directly address Iraq's electricity shortage. If Kurdistan can develop transparent mechanisms for supplying gas to Iraqi power plants, it can transform an economic asset into a political instrument of interdependence. But transparency is essential.

If Kurdish natural resources are committed through opaque agreements, long-term economic value can become a source of political vulnerability rather than strength. Energy strategy should therefore be linked to public accountability, parliamentary oversight, transparent contracts and diversified export options.

The same logic applies to fuel. The KRG's decision to allow imports of gasoline demonstrated that energy security is ultimately about supply resilience, not merely domestic production. A modern energy strategy must therefore include oil, gas, electricity, renewables, storage, imports, pipelines and emergency supply mechanisms.

Economic Diversification Is National Security

The future of Kurdistan will depend on whether it can move from a rentier economy toward a productive economy.

The Region already possesses a substantial private sector. Recent KPA reporting identified more than 23,000 business applications, with trading, construction, contracting, real estate and services forming a major part of economic activity. The challenge is to transform this commercial base into productive capacity through manufacturing, agriculture, technology, logistics and exports. This is not simply an economic reform agenda. It is national security.

An economy dependent on oil revenues is vulnerable to commodity prices. An economy dependent on Baghdad for salaries is vulnerable to political pressure. An economy dependent on imports is vulnerable to border disruptions. An economy dominated by government employment struggles to generate independent political and social resilience.

KPA's outlook therefore correctly places economic diversification at the center of strategic resilience: tourism, agriculture, manufacturing, logistics, technology, education and cross-border commerce should be treated as components of national power rather than secondary development sectors. Kurdistan does not need to become an industrial giant. It needs to become economically difficult to isolate.

Infrastructure Could Redefine Kurdistan's Geopolitical Value

Perhaps the greatest economic opportunity lies in connectivity.

Iraq's $17 billion Development Road is designed to transform Iraq into a bridge between Asia and Europe. But its success depends heavily on geography, security and access to Turkey. Kurdistan sits directly within this strategic equation. This presents an opportunity—but also a warning.

KPA has examined how Turkey, Syria and Iraq could potentially construct corridors that bypass Kurdistan altogether. Such a bypass would weaken one of Erbil's most important strategic advantages: its position as the unavoidable northern gateway into Iraq. This is why infrastructure policy is geopolitical policy.

Kurdistan cannot assume that geography alone guarantees relevance. If Baghdad, Ankara and Damascus can construct alternative routes that make Kurdish territory optional, Erbil's leverage declines. The strategic objective should therefore be integration rather than obstruction.

Kurdistan should seek to become part of the Development Road, Turkish energy corridors, Iraqi-Syrian trade networks and Gulf connectivity projects. The Region should make itself a node, not a bottleneck. A bottleneck can be bypassed. A node becomes indispensable.

The Gulf and Asia Could Diversify Kurdistan's External Relationships

Kurdistan's future should not depend exclusively on its relationships with Turkey, Iran, Iraq and the United States. Asian economic powers offer another avenue for diversification.

KPA's examination of South Korea shows how the Kurdistan Region can become relevant to states whose primary interests involve energy security, infrastructure, technology and investment rather than traditional Middle Eastern political alignments. This is strategically useful.

A diversified foreign economic portfolio gives Kurdistan more options. South Korean, European, Gulf and other Asian investors could contribute to infrastructure, manufacturing, technology, energy and services. The principle should be simple: the more external actors have legitimate economic interests in Kurdistan's stability, the more expensive instability becomes.

Water Will Become a Strategic Issue

Energy has dominated Kurdish strategic thinking for decades. Water may become equally important in the future. Kurdistan's location upstream of important river systems exposes it to the policies of neighboring states, while climate change and population growth are increasing pressure on water resources.

KPA's analysis of the Zab crisis illustrates how water can increasingly become intertwined with relations between Kurdistan, Iran and Iraq.

Water security affects agriculture, electricity, food security, urban development and migration. It should therefore be treated as part of national security planning rather than as a narrow environmental issue. A future Kurdish strategic doctrine will need to include water diplomacy alongside energy diplomacy.

The Development Road Could Be a Test of Kurdish Strategic Maturity

The Development Road encapsulates the broader choice facing Kurdistan.

Kurdistan can view major regional infrastructure projects with suspicion because they may reduce its leverage. Or it can attempt to ensure that those projects depend upon Kurdish stability, logistics and economic participation. The latter is strategically superior.

If Iraq becomes a major land bridge between the Gulf and Europe, Kurdistan should seek a role in that system. If Turkey becomes an energy hub, Kurdistan should become one of its important regional partners. If Syria reconnects with Iraq and Turkey, Kurdistan should participate in the resulting commercial architecture. The goal is not to control every corridor. It is to ensure that Kurdistan remains part of the corridors that matter.

Kurdistan's Strategic Future Will Require Neutrality—but Not Passivity

The Region's declared neutrality during regional wars has often been misunderstood. Neutrality does not mean strategic passivity. It means avoiding unnecessary participation in conflicts while preserving the capability to protect one's interests.

KPA's analysis of neutrality during the current regional turmoil showed why this policy is becoming increasingly important. Erbil needs relationships with Washington, Baghdad, Ankara and Tehran simultaneously. It cannot afford to become an extension of any one power's regional strategy. But neutrality is credible only when backed by capability. A weak actor can declare neutrality; stronger actors decide whether they respect it.

Kurdistan therefore needs sufficient military, diplomatic and economic capacity to make neutrality useful to its neighbors. This is another reason why security reform, economic diversification and diplomatic professionalism are inseparable.

The Kurdish Future Is No Longer Defined by Independence Alone

For generations, the central Kurdish political aspiration was statehood. That aspiration remains historically important. But the strategic environment is now more complicated than the traditional independence-versus-integration binary suggests.

Kurdistan can accumulate many of the attributes of state power without immediately possessing internationally recognized sovereignty.

It can develop institutions. It can build military capability. It can attract foreign investment. It can establish international partnerships. It can become an energy and logistics hub. It can mediate between regional actors. It can become indispensable to Iraq's economic geography. It can become useful to Washington's regional strategy. It can become a stabilizing intermediary between Baghdad, Damascus and Kurdish actors in Syria. In other words, state capacity can precede statehood. That may be the most important strategic insight for Kurdish politics in the coming decade.

Three Futures

Three broad futures are now possible.

The first is managed autonomy. Kurdistan remains constitutionally within Iraq, reforms its institutions, reaches sustainable agreements with Baghdad, integrates its security forces, diversifies its economy and balances relationships with Turkey, Iran, the United States and the Gulf. This is probably the most realistic and sustainable trajectory.

The second is gradual re-centralization. Internal Kurdish divisions continue, Baghdad accumulates greater fiscal and legal leverage, alternative infrastructure reduces Kurdish economic importance and the Region gradually loses practical autonomy without formally losing its constitutional status.

The third is strategic resurgence. Kurdistan uses its geography, energy resources, security institutions, diplomatic networks and economic connectivity to become a central node in the emerging regional order.

The third scenario is the most ambitious. But it is not impossible. It requires Kurdistan to stop thinking primarily in terms of what it can protect and begin thinking about what it can make indispensable.

The Strategic Choice

Kurdistan's strategic environment is becoming more difficult, but it is also creating opportunities that did not previously exist.

Turkey needs alternative energy and trade routes. Iraq needs stable northern connectivity. Syria needs regional interlocutors. Washington needs partners capable of connecting political, economic and security systems. European and Asian economies need reliable energy and investment opportunities. The Gulf seeks new routes toward Turkey and Europe. Even Iran, despite its adversarial relationship with Kurdish armed organizations, remains deeply connected to the economic and political environment surrounding Iraqi Kurdistan.

The Region therefore possesses something that many territories in the Middle East lack: multiple forms of strategic relevance simultaneously. The danger is that Kurdish political fragmentation prevents these assets from being combined. The opportunity is that institutional reform could turn them into a coherent strategy. Kurdistan's future should therefore be built around five principles.

First, institutional autonomy must replace personalized political power.

Second, energy independence must evolve into energy interdependence.

Third, Peshmerga reform must produce a unified and professional security institution.

Fourth, economic diversification must make Kurdistan resilient to political and fiscal pressure from Baghdad.

Fifth, diplomacy must transform Kurdistan from a territory that others compete over into an actor that others must negotiate with. That final transformation is the most important.

From Buffer Zone to Strategic Hub

For much of modern history, Kurdish territories were treated by larger states as buffer zones. Between empires. Between armies. Between rival ideologies. Between Iran and Iraq. Between Turkey and Syria. Between the United States and Iran. That model is becoming obsolete. The future Kurdistan should not be a buffer.

It should be a hub. A hub for energy. A hub for trade. A hub for diplomacy. A hub for security cooperation. A hub connecting Iraq to Turkey. A hub connecting Syria to regional markets. A hub connecting local actors to Washington. A hub capable of attracting Gulf and Asian investment. This does not require immediate independence. It requires strategic capacity.

The deepest lesson emerging from KPA's body of analysis is therefore that Kurdistan's future cannot be understood through one issue. Oil alone is insufficient. Security alone is insufficient. Washington alone is insufficient. Turkey alone is insufficient. Constitutional autonomy alone is insufficient. Kurdistan's future will emerge from the interaction of all of them.

The Region's geography has placed it at the intersection of the Middle East's most important strategic systems. The question is whether Kurdish institutions can become sophisticated enough to manage that position.

If they can, the Kurdistan Region could become one of the Middle East's most consequential subnational actors—possessing influence disproportionate to its formal constitutional status.

If they cannot, the same geography that creates opportunity will continue to expose Kurdistan to the decisions of others. The choice is therefore not simply between independence and autonomy. It is between dependency and strategic interdependence.

Between being a corridor and becoming a hub. Between being a battlefield and becoming a security actor. Between exporting raw resources and building an integrated economy. Between asking external powers for protection and becoming sufficiently valuable that those powers have a stake in Kurdish stability.

The future of Kurdistan in the Middle East will ultimately be determined by whether it can make that transition.

The Region does not control the regional order. But it can influence it. It cannot choose its neighbors. But it can diversify its relationships with them. It cannot eliminate geopolitical competition. But it can make itself indispensable to the systems created by that competition. And it cannot predict the next Middle Eastern crisis. But it can build institutions resilient enough to survive it.

That is the strategic future Kurdistan should pursue: not isolation, not dependency, and not passive autonomy, but strategic indispensability.

The Kurdistan Region's greatest achievement over the next decade will not necessarily be the acquisition of a new constitutional title. It will be the creation of a political, economic and security system so resilient—and a geographic and economic position so valuable—that Baghdad, Ankara, Tehran, Washington, Damascus and the wider international community all have a reason to preserve its stability.

At that point, Kurdistan will no longer be merely a question in the Middle East. It will be part of the answer.


Dr. Pshtiwan Faraj is the founder of Kurdish Policy Analysis and a geopolitical analyst specializing in Kurdistan, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, regional security, energy geopolitics and the changing Middle Eastern order. His work focuses on the intersection of Kurdish politics, regional power competition, economic statecraft, energy security and geopolitical transformation.

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