Counting Down to Deception

Counting down from fourteen days.
Not to a discovery, not to diplomacy—
but to the next campaign of fear.

Last time, it was weapons of mass destruction.
This time, the weapon is mass deception.

No credible proof.
Only innuendo, vague threats, and repeated phrases—
said just enough times to sound like facts.
Unchallenged by enough people
to pass for consensus.

We’ve been here before.
We know this playbook.
Raise the stakes. Set a clock.
Manufacture urgency. Then say:
“We had no choice.”

But we do have a choice.
We always do.

This isn’t about defending ourselves.
This is about defending the illusion
that power must always be backed by force,
that we can’t possibly be strong
without striking first.

It’s the logic of a cornered bully.
It’s the echo of history,
rewound and replayed
by those hoping we weren’t paying attention.

But many of us are paying attention.
We remember what followed the last deception:
a war with no exit,
a region destabilized,
a generation disillusioned.

So we ask again,
with clarity sharpened by hindsight:
Where’s the real evidence?
Where’s the unmanipulated intelligence?
Where’s the diplomatic path
you’ve already decided to skip?

If there’s a countdown,
let it be to the moment
we refuse to be fooled again.

Drop diplomacy Not bombs

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