In the age of viral geopolitics, wars spread through narratives that demonize the enemy and sanctify violence
Before wars are understood, they are narrated. The stories told about them determine who is cast as aggressor, who stands as defender, and which acts of violence are rendered necessary. Long before facts are weighed, the language of conflict surreptitiously arranges the moral stage upon which events will be judged.
On the tenth day of the Israeli-American campaign against Iran, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz denounced the civilizational state as a hub of international terrorism that must be dismantled, depicting US and Israeli…
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