Useful Idiots

Modern pro-war propaganda is slick as hell. They don’t need posters of Uncle Sam anymore, they’ve got influencers, emotionally manipulative content, heroic narratives, and simplified good-vs-evil stories pumped straight into your dopamine feed. People swallow it whole. Suddenly, folks who couldn’t find Donbas on a map are foaming at the mouth, demanding no-fly zones, more arms, “crippling sanctions,” and pledging allegiance to “democracy”…without realizing they’re just parroting talking points fed to them by military-industrial PR teams and intelligence cutouts.

The ugliest part? Most of them think they’re fighting the good fight. That’s the essence of the term. They’re “useful” because they sell the war to the masses, and they’re “idiots” because they think it’s righteous activism, not just blood-soaked business as usual.

And when the gears starts turning, if the war drums are pounding, if the state starts pulling you in with its claws… softness gets crushed. The garden doesn’t stop the draft. They’ll hand you a weapon and a cause, and they’ll call it honor. Survival. Duty.