What bothers me about the meme treatment of war isn't just that it's tacky. It's that it trains people, especially politicians and the people who orbit them, to act like foreign policy is a group chat bit. A strike happens, civilians die, markets jolt, troops get put on alert, and within minutes everyone's posting edits like they're covering the Super Bowl. Trump didn't invent that instinct, but he poured gasoline on it and now half the internet talks about bombing campaigns with the same voice it uses for dunking on a debate clip. You can be anti-Iran's regime and still think turning military action into content is a sick way to run a country. Some things should make us slower, not louder.
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