The landscape of American power has been stripped of its polite, procedural veneer and replaced by a high-velocity kineticism that makes the previous twelve years look like a goddamn Sunday school picnic. Under the second Trump term, the shift from “surgical” drone strikes to the “Peace Through Strength” bludgeon has fundamentally altered the geometry of global conflict, trading the slow rot of forever wars for the explosive, immediate shock of Operation Epic Fury.
