No Easy Exit

I have lost count of the number
of world leaders who have dominated
the media that I have found acceptable
to me, that edits the news well.

As soon as these leaders have started wars
they have found they could only end them
through being far more brutal than they suggested
they would be, which is when they put the 'bullet'
into 'bulletin' with the aggression with which
they speak to a media they have made pliant
to their message, their personal echo chamber
which I only recieve selectively, second hand.

The wars continue without any prospect
of a clean, or even acceptably dirty, exit. 

I know what comes next.

Economic displacement in countries at peace,
at home at least. They won't want the refugees
who are fleeing the wars that they have started,
with allies they have backed who consider it
to be beneath them to sort out the mess,
and consequences of what they started.....