That's me, with a degree in history, and a lifetime of watching it play out. My anxiety level has never been this high. This is not normal life, and we are absolutely careening towards disaster, and NOBODY at the top has the slightest idea how to drive this car. I don't think some of them are even smart enough to know what a car is, or how it works.
I know where this all leads to. I know how many people have said "It will never happen in my beautiful country." Every German said that in 1939. In 5 years, entire cities were bombed to rubble, and millions of their fellow citizens were dead.
In 1984, Sarajevo hosted the Olympics, and showed their beautiful modern city and nation to the world. In 1992, less that 10 years later, they were under siege in the Bosnian War:
Lasting from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 (1,425 days), it was three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad and more than a year longer than the siege of Leningrad, making it the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare.[11]
The Huns used to come to a beautiful city, and kill literally every single person. One day, the people are enjoying their lives, and the next day, every single one of them is dead.
The horrors of war happen to normal cities all the time, throughout history. Too many people on both sides don't understand how easily it can happen to them. Nobody is immune.
