#ww3

and from 2013:

So what kind of vibe would you get from being there?

Hunger, prison, deportations

Easy access to food? clothes you like? travel?

Sex education? LGBTQ+? Safety?

Remember that you have nothing of your own. Do you even deserve it?

No, seriously. This isn’t The Blitz. You are not in London in 1940, and no one is going to be blacking out your windows while your kids cry in bunkers. You are not going to be hiding from air raids. You are not going to be on the receiving end of war because America does not receive war. America delivers it.

The United States doesn’t get invaded. It invades. It doesn’t get bombed. It bombs. It has military bases in over 70 countries. It has enough nukes to turn the whole planet into dust several times over. If anyone even tried to touch American soil, the response would be so devastating that it wouldn’t even be a fight it would be a warning to the rest of the world.

So no, you’re not brave or insightful or ahead of the curve for doomposting about WW3 like you’re starring in a gritty survival film. You’re just catastrophizing from the safety of your air-conditioned home, where DoorDash still delivers and TikTok still works. You’re anxious, and I get it. But don’t confuse anxiety with lived war experience. You're not the oppressed. You're not the target. You're a bystander, at worst.

War is already here — it just doesn’t look like bombs over Brooklyn. It looks like drone strikes on brown kids you’ll never learn the names of. It looks like the U.S. sponsoring coups, destabilizing governments, and sucking the wealth out of entire regions. It looks like the military-industrial complex siphoning billions while people in Flint still don’t have clean water.

So if you’re American and scared of war coming to you, remember: It already came. You just weren't the one bleeding.

You live in the belly of the beast start acting like it.

Every few months, the U.S. dips its toe into some international tension and suddenly every American on the internet starts spiraling like they’re in a war film. "Oh no, are we going to get nuked?" "Is WW3 coming to us

It’s such a uniquely American thing to only care about global conflict when there’s even a microscopic chance it could affect you. Never mind that America has been destabilizing governments, drone striking children, and funding proxy wars for literal decades. That was all fine. That was "just foreign policy." But now that you think you might be inconvenienced? Now it's terrifying? Now it’s real?

You are not Syria. You are not Gaza. You are not Ukraine. You are not Afghanistan. You are the country that does that to other people and then panics when gas prices go up.

So please. Grow up. You live in the empire. You benefit from the empire. The only bombs falling in your neighborhood are ones you made memes about or forgot entirely.

Be scared of your rent.

Be scared of your healthcare system.

Be scared of the fact your government would rather fund another war than fix your roads.

But don’t pretend you’re a war victim in waiting you’re just American.