[
  {
    "name": "Iran Chain",
    "description": "1953 coup → 1979 revolution → Iran-Iraq War → 2026 war",
    "nodes": [
      {
        "year": 1953,
        "event": "CIA overthrows democratically elected Mossadegh",
        "conflictId": "iran-coup-1953",
        "consequence": "Installs Shah, builds secret police SAVAK"
      },
      {
        "year": 1979,
        "event": "Iranian Revolution overthrows US-backed Shah",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "Anti-American theocracy takes power"
      },
      {
        "year": 1980,
        "event": "Iran-Iraq War begins",
        "conflictId": "iran-iraq-war",
        "consequence": "US arms both sides, 1M+ die"
      },
      {
        "year": 2026,
        "event": "US-Iran War",
        "conflictId": "iran-war",
        "consequence": "Predicted escalation from decades of hostility"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Afghanistan Chain",
    "description": "1980s CIA funding → Taliban → 9/11 → 20-year war → Taliban takeover",
    "nodes": [
      {
        "year": 1979,
        "event": "CIA arms Afghan mujahideen against Soviets",
        "conflictId": "afghanistan-soviet",
        "consequence": "$3B+ creates international jihadist network"
      },
      {
        "year": 1996,
        "event": "Taliban emerges from CIA-funded fighters",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "Provides safe haven for Al Qaeda"
      },
      {
        "year": 2001,
        "event": "September 11 attacks",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "3,000 Americans killed by CIA's former assets"
      },
      {
        "year": 2001,
        "event": "US invades Afghanistan",
        "conflictId": "afghanistan",
        "consequence": "20-year war, $2.3T spent, 175K+ dead"
      },
      {
        "year": 2021,
        "event": "Taliban retakes Afghanistan",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "Back to square one after 20 years"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Iraq Chain",
    "description": "Gulf War → sanctions → Iraq War → ISIS → regional chaos",
    "nodes": [
      {
        "year": 1991,
        "event": "Gulf War devastates Iraq infrastructure",
        "conflictId": "gulf-war",
        "consequence": "500K+ Iraqi children die from sanctions"
      },
      {
        "year": 2003,
        "event": "US invades Iraq based on WMD lies",
        "conflictId": "iraq-war",
        "consequence": "Destroys government, disbands army"
      },
      {
        "year": 2006,
        "event": "Iraqi civil war begins",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "Sectarian violence kills 100K+ civilians"
      },
      {
        "year": 2014,
        "event": "ISIS emerges from Iraqi chaos",
        "conflictId": "isis",
        "consequence": "Conquers territory size of Britain"
      },
      {
        "year": 2020,
        "event": "Regional proxy wars continue",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "Syria, Yemen devastated, millions refugees"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Libya Chain",
    "description": "2011 intervention → failed state → weapons to ISIS/Sahel",
    "nodes": [
      {
        "year": 2011,
        "event": "NATO bombs Libya for 'humanitarian intervention'",
        "conflictId": "libya-intervention",
        "consequence": "Gaddafi killed, government collapses"
      },
      {
        "year": 2012,
        "event": "Benghazi attack kills US ambassador",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "Libya becomes failed state with multiple governments"
      },
      {
        "year": 2014,
        "event": "Libyan weapons flow to ISIS and African groups",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "Arms bazaar destabilizes entire Sahel region"
      },
      {
        "year": 2020,
        "event": "Sahel coups cascade across Africa",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger reject Western presence"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Guatemala Chain",
    "description": "1954 CIA coup → 36-year civil war → 200K dead",
    "nodes": [
      {
        "year": 1954,
        "event": "CIA overthrows democratically elected Árbenz",
        "conflictId": "guatemala-coup",
        "consequence": "Protects United Fruit Company's land"
      },
      {
        "year": 1960,
        "event": "Guatemalan Civil War begins",
        "conflictId": "guatemala-civil-war",
        "consequence": "36-year conflict starts"
      },
      {
        "year": 1996,
        "event": "Civil war ends",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "200,000 dead, 83% indigenous Maya"
      },
      {
        "year": 2024,
        "event": "Migrants flee generational poverty",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "Legacy of violence drives Central American migration"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Chile Chain",
    "description": "1973 CIA coup → Pinochet → 40K tortured",
    "nodes": [
      {
        "year": 1973,
        "event": "CIA helps overthrow democratically elected Allende",
        "conflictId": "chile-coup",
        "consequence": "General Pinochet takes power"
      },
      {
        "year": 1974,
        "event": "Pinochet begins Operation Condor",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "Cross-border assassination program"
      },
      {
        "year": 1990,
        "event": "Pinochet leaves power",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "40,000+ tortured, 3,200+ killed/disappeared"
      },
      {
        "year": 2006,
        "event": "Pinochet dies, never prosecuted",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "US blocks international justice for decades"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Vietnam Chain",
    "description": "Domino theory → 20-year war → 58K dead → dominoes didn't fall",
    "nodes": [
      {
        "year": 1954,
        "event": "US backs South Vietnam after French defeat",
        "conflictId": "vietnam-war",
        "consequence": "Domino theory: stop communism spreading"
      },
      {
        "year": 1964,
        "event": "Gulf of Tonkin lie escalates war",
        "conflictId": "vietnam-war",
        "consequence": "False flag attack justifies massive escalation"
      },
      {
        "year": 1975,
        "event": "North Vietnam conquers South",
        "conflictId": "vietnam-war",
        "consequence": "58,220 Americans dead, 3.8M Vietnamese"
      },
      {
        "year": 1976,
        "event": "Dominoes don't fall",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore remain capitalist"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Somalia Chain",
    "description": "1992 intervention → Black Hawk Down → Al-Shabaab → AFRICOM return",
    "nodes": [
      {
        "year": 1992,
        "event": "US humanitarian intervention in Somalia",
        "conflictId": "somalia-intervention",
        "consequence": "Mission creep leads to nation-building"
      },
      {
        "year": 1993,
        "event": "Black Hawk Down disaster",
        "conflictId": "somalia-intervention",
        "consequence": "18 Americans killed, hasty withdrawal"
      },
      {
        "year": 2006,
        "event": "Islamic Courts Union brings stability",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "US backs Ethiopian invasion to destroy it"
      },
      {
        "year": 2007,
        "event": "Al-Shabaab emerges from chaos",
        "conflictId": null,
        "consequence": "More radical than Islamic Courts"
      },
      {
        "year": 2022,
        "event": "AFRICOM returns with drone war",
        "conflictId": "somalia-drone-war",
        "consequence": "30 years later, back where we started"
      }
    ]
  }
]