A small sample of the cost of the imperial war machine

I have so many thoughts on the war my own government, Israel, and the imperial war machine started, but it’s hard to think about it clearly yet. The existential dread of the very real possibility of nuclear war is still gripping me, and well as my rage at everybody who’s in a position of power in the US and Israel, both those who started it, and those who’ve sat idly by either because they want political points or because they low key like the war. I grieve the completely unnecessary and wanton loss of life. Desolate at the thought of how much instability this will cause for all those people in the region just trying to live their lives for years to come, and the blowback that’ll surely come back on us, the aggressors. It’s too much. It’s overwhelming. I’m sure I’ll write about it later. But I was thinking of a close friend’s partner who has a lot of family in Lebanon. She had told me that most of them got out a long time ago, and I hope they’re safe. She also told me about Beruit,…