Airstrikes & Assassinations: America’s Violence Is No Longer Foreign Policy — It’s A Mirror

The Empire Strikes Abroad And Bleeds At Home – A Nation Lost In Its Own Reflection

In an age where we scroll past news of missile strikes and assassinations the same as we do with weather reports, it’s essential to take a step back and ensure we analyze the bigger picture.

After decades of exporting violence, interventionism, and destabilization, the war has finally come home. Resulting from disastrous policy in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq – the U.S. is now devouring itself.

While homegrown attacks show the collapse of legitimacy against the outward gesture of control showcased with the Iranian missile strikes, the deliberate and practiced use of violence is as much spectacle as it is political signaling.

Does Donald Trump thrive in provoking attacks to appear strong, as well as times of crisis, and extreme polarization? Maybe so.

The general American public has become desensitized to violence and death, shrugging as military strikes and domestic political assaults dominate the headlines and quickly flicker away onto the next thing.

The Iranian missile strikes are meant to show strength but the real war is already inside our borders. The U.S. is seemingly a burning empire, lashing outward while warring from within as collapse seems imminent.

Rome burned. Weimar fractured. The Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of its own lies. America is not the exception – it’s merely the sequel.

The foundations are cracked. The center cannot hold. Yet the machine grinds forward – blind, bloodied, and thirsty for only war and killing.

What happens when a nation can no longer tell the difference between strength and cruelty? Between security and submission? Between spectacle and reality?