AIM Framework glossary
Synthetic Buffer Corollary
Canonical definition
The Synthetic Buffer Corollary is the result that order installed by an external power following removal of an incumbent does not constitute Buffer Independence but its substitution: the institutions of the imposed order derive their operating authority from the occupier's will rather than from sources independent of it, which reproduces the precondition for Forced Quiescence rather than resolving it. The occupier is itself an Anchoring Object while present, so its withdrawal is a removal-branch trigger structurally identical to the death of the figure whose Premium-locus it replaced, and it fires two mechanisms jointly, the Succession Decoherence of the substituted will and the Differentiation Collapse of the shared reference anchor. The Synthetic Buffer Corollary's falsification surface is the contrast between externally-imposed orders that built endogenous buffer independence (Germany and Japan post-1945) and those that substituted the occupier's will (Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan), success tracking buffer-building rather than resources or duration.
Explanation
When a foreign power topples a ruler and props up a new government, it usually does not build institutions that can stand on their own, it just becomes the new thing everything depends on. So the country is back in the same trap: stability that lasts only as long as the outsider stays. The day the outsider leaves, it is exactly like the old dictator dying, and worse, because the occupier was also the Anchoring Object (the common reference point everyone defined themselves for or against). Its departure pulls away the prop and the shared reference point at once. The cases where this worked, Germany and Japan after 1945, worked because the occupier built real, independent institutions and stayed long enough for them to hold on their own, the opposite of what happened in Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Corollary. Derived from the Succession Decoherence Principle, the Differentiation Collapse Mechanism, the Anchoring Object construct, and the Leadership Compression Principle.