A SHORT RANT

Yet another war has started. More people are being warned to leave their homes and flee because bombs and destruction will rain down. From afar we lose sight of the individual humans who are suffering. The only people we have in view are the “boys with toys” schoolyard bullies, who are wreaking havoc and swaggering around.

Leaders make decisions and the general population suffers. It’s an ancient story.

Take sides? Are you kidding? The bullies are cut from the same cloth and should be exiled to a distant planet. Meanwhile the ordinary folk whose lives are at risk are anonymously suffering. The ones in Iran didn’t choose their leaders and have, many of them, been rebelling and pushing back against the authoritarianism of the state; Iran is controlled jointly by clerics and the Republican Guard. The ones in Israel voted in elections but find themselves hauled into intensity by a guy who will seemingly do anything, including destroy his country, to avoid jail.

And what about the people who are safely across the ocean from the war, the USians who voted for the orange guy, egged on by a cabal of the monied who financed the win? This is their doing. Their country has power and money and a mighty set of weapons and resources to donate to this war. Without this support it wouldn’t be happening. And the orange guy is thriving on the attention, an insecure narcissistboy with powerful toys.

His military parade didn’t work well; it was mocked. So instead he’s backing a war:

That will get him the headlines he craves.

And will wreak lives.

And be another hit to the environment.

Many people who live far from the war will turn their heads away, stay focused on the “normal” and local, to avoid thinking about this catastrophic out-of-control situation. Just as they have been doing about the murderous onslaughts on the people of Gaza.

It’s all too much.