In Palestine, Gaza, Ukraine, Myanmar, Rwanda, Bosnia, El Salvador... innocent people are attacked, arrested, detained, wrongly imprisoned, hurt and murdered allegedly because of some threat they pose to existing leadership and the generally wealthy class who somehow profits and enriches themselves from leadership and representative policy.

Even the United States is not immune. Every day ICE flexes its federally mandated power to seize and disappear "enemies" with no due process. These enemies are immigrants and citizens whom somebody identified and labeled a threat. This is MAGA policy, and if it proved anything to the world, America has clay feet and we might be standing in a flood.

The giant of our country is lurching and listing in economic unheaval, social upheaval, and political warfare that exposed an unimagined vulnerability to the world. Our allies distanced themselves, fearing we may fall. They are preparing to live in a world where American strength no longer means anything.

In all the time people fought in the Middle East over land and alleged birthright, we haven't learned one goddamned thing about getting along with each other.