We keep calling it strategy
when it’s really amnesia.
Same maps.
Same language dressed up as protection.
Same confidence that violence will behave differently
this time.
We were warned by the smoke of other decades,
by names etched into textbooks we skimmed,
by countries turned into cautionary tales
no one in power bothered to finish reading.
Bombs don’t bring democracy.
They bring contracts.
They bring cameras.
They bring excuses that age poorly
and blood that never stays contained.
What disgusts me most
is not the repetition
but the refusal to learn.
The Trump administration treats history
like a rerun you can mute
while the damage rolls on in the background.
And once again,
it won’t be the architects who pay.
It will be civilians.
It will be future generations
asking why adults with access to every lesson
chose arrogance over restraint.
We don’t need louder weapons.
We need memory.
We need accountability.
We need leaders who understand
that power without reflection,
it’s just destruction with a flag wrapped around it.