The Tyrant Syndrome

Cold, merciless vengeance strikes to compensate the

rage a tyrant feels when his ambitions are thwarted 

and there is no force of nature or humanity to tweak

the barest remnant of conscience in a man who saw fit 

to dispense with it long ago in his aspirational scheme 

to restore pride in a nation that had once humbled and

diminished the pride of other nations by usurping their 

sovereign authority affixing it squarely under its own 

reigning with the pretense of a benign unity while looting

the resources of its hapless satellites and slaughtering 

en masse any who might protest. The inheritor of the 

tyranny himself disposed to usurpation of his neighbours' 

liberty as a hegemon whose purpose is to 're-unify' the

trembling others under his command as a ruthless autocrat 

never shirks at using any stratagem of violent coercion 

to amplify his power and ambition. No daintily humane 

and universally recognized wartime inhibitions give him

pause as he lethally assaults civilians and their puny 

shelters and civil infrastructure. And nor is humanitarian 

trade meant to succor lesser nations from the despair of 

cold and hunger beyond his reach as he orders the destruction

of foodstuffs meant to sustain far off nations in famine.