At its core, the invocation of an “Imminent Threat” is an assertion of the right to preemptively strike.
Modern warfare feels abstract and disconnected, a TV show for fragmented people. The recent Iran conflict has troubling precedence.
It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. It was the 2010’s.
If we’ve become indurated to stylized fictional bloodshed over the years, what does it mean to become desensitized to the actual horror?
Welcome to the Mirror Universe, a new series where we imagine “what if the United States wasn’t the dumb, arrogant, violent world bully holding everyone hostage with nukes and money?” How would a different world dynamic write about the US in turn, changing nearly nothing about it?
