WAPMEN EDITORIAL
The mask has slipped. The pretense of a civilized international order has evaporated, revealing a hollow stage. When Israel razed Gaza, killing civilians en masse while the world watched—paralyzed, mute, complicit—we learned a brutal lesson: there is no referee left on the field.
That moment was not an aberration. It was a signal flare.
What followed was predictable. If impunity is rewarded, it becomes doctrine. If international law is optional for the powerful, it becomes irrelevant for everyone else. Gaza is not only a graveyard of innocents; it is the funeral of a global system.
The Death of the Umpire
Let us speak plainly: there is no United Nations anymore—not in any meaningful sense. There are buildings, budgets, and bureaucrats. There are speeches, statements, emergency sessions, and vetoes. But there is no enforcement, no moral authority, no deterrence. International law has been reduced to a pamphlet—waved by the weak, shredded by the strong.
Human rights? Selective. War crimes? Contextual. Genocide? Debated. Justice? Deferred—forever.
This is not a failure of capacity; it is a failure of will. The system was not overwhelmed; it was captured.
From Gaza to the World
Once the precedent is set, the contagion spreads. If mass killing can be televised without consequence, why should others restrain themselves? If borders can be violated with applause from allies, why respect sovereignty elsewhere?
Today the names whispered are Venezuela and Iran. Tomorrow, it will be someone else. The lesson has been absorbed: power, not principle, decides. Might does not just make right—it erases the question altogether.
We are not drifting toward chaos; we have institutionalized it.
The New Normal: Permanent War
What is emerging is not a single world war, but something more insidious: a permanent state of global confrontation—proxy wars, sanctions wars, cyber wars, economic strangulation, information warfare—all unfolding simultaneously, everywhere. The battlefield is no longer defined; it is ambient.
And the victims are always the same: civilians, the poor, the stateless, the voiceless. Gaza today. Somewhere else tomorrow.
This is not a future imagined by dystopian fiction; it is a present engineered by geopolitical arrogance.
Somalia and the Periphery Beware
For fragile states—Somalia among them—the implications are dire. When international law collapses, small nations lose their only shield. Sovereignty becomes negotiable. Recognition becomes transactional. Fragmentation becomes profitable for outsiders.
When the jungle rules, the smallest creatures are the first to be trampled.
A World Without Restraint
We were told “never again.” What they meant was “never again—for us.” The rest of humanity can queue for condolences.
This is the dreadful truth we now inhabit: a world without restraint, without accountability, without shame. A world where the powerful act first and explain later—if at all.
What we are waiting for now is not peace, but escalation. Not diplomacy, but alignment. Not justice, but survival.
The jungle is back. And it is hungry.
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