Too much invested to leave, not enough achieved to continue — a genuinely terrible place to be, made worse once reporting became part of the battlefield itself. bsky.app/profile/mons...
The Half-Life of Control
Maps lie slowly. A colored zone on a operational overlay implies permanence — a held village, a secured tree line, a defended ridge. But color is a claim, not a fact, and the gap between the two widens the moment the ink dries.