Silence in the face of external violence is rarely just blindness; it is preparation.

When international legal frameworks are openly ignored to permit total warfare in one region, it marks a shift in the global operating system. What is normalised at the periphery does not stay there.

The “Imperial Boomerang” effect describes how techniques of domination tested on distant populations eventually return home. By normalising the erasure of lives abroad in the name of “security,” a legal and moral precedent is set.

The silence is not neutrality; it is the calibration of a new threshold for acceptable violence. One that can later be applied domestically.