European governments present defense spending as economic policy, yet economists show that every dollar yields only fifty cents of GDP growth. Political leaders promise prosperity through rearmament while pursuing spending patterns that systematically sacrifice higher-return investments in education and infrastructure.

The striking feature is not only the scale of civilian loss but the way institutions classify and reclassify death. A figure—83% of those killed in Gaza identified as civilians—does not emerge from chaos.

The New York Times calls it “greatness.” Two cities burned, thousands killed—erased as incidental, remembered only for the method that made it possible.

That day, we not only destroyed a city but entered a world where mass death drew no mourning—and was instead declared an act of peace.

In 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, presenting it not as historical rupture but as achievement.

Today, few serious voices openly argue that peace’s ideals and war’s actions are compatible, acknowledging their fundamental conflict rather than seeking reconciliation between the two.

Relief convoys idle at Gaza’s border show the crisis’s severity. Despite Israel’s partial blockade lift Sunday, no aid reached starving Palestinians by Wednesday, deepening the humanitarian catastrophe.