Aspirational arrogance and egotistical
pride make for a deathly combination
whose inevitable outcome is well known
to history; only a narcissist would sniff
that an adversary's hold on its territory is so
frail as to crumble under an invasion that
cannot be named a war though the conflict
imposed on an unready neighbour appeared
to warrant vast infrastructure destruction
and instant death to legions of civilians.
That victim-nation so scorned and trampled
with malice aforethought raised itself with
the dignity of the wronged, sending the troops
of its oppressor in a frantic retreat from the
rage of the opposing army fixated on
destroying a tyrant's plan to obliterate their
state, their people, their culture, their identity
writing a new chapter in the history of
the malevolently-attacked countering its
enemy itself scorned and ridiculed as an
example of pride's downspiral to failure.
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