9th April, 2026.
Despite what everyone says, there isn’t a war going on.
No, really, there’s not.
Whatever it is that’s going on between the US and Israel on the one side, and Iran and Lebanon on the other, isn’t a war.
As Old Peculiar regular, and recovering lawyer, Debbi Mack, will remind us?
Wars have rules.
Or, at least, something that vaguely resembles legal standing.
The current situation?
Isn’t a war: more, as President Putin put it, a ‘special military operation’.
Whether it’s a war, or not, apparently, a two week ceasefire has been arranged.
One that’s lasted for about ten minutes, if I’ve understood things correctly.
I have to ask … how naïve do we have to be, to not get cynical, to not laugh, when someone uses the word ‘ceasefire’?
A ceasefire is a very good example of a thing that doesn’t work.
Laughing, in between a ceasefire’s declaration, and its collapse?
Is the only response to its use.
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