To me, at this point, everything feels like déjà vu. And today, that feeling arrived with the very first morning headline:

“The Beaufort was captured again.”

If you know the history, you already understand what I mean. And if not, I'll give you the clip notes.

1982: captured.

2000: evacuated and blown up.

2026: back on the map.

For some people, it’s strategy. For others, it’s trauma. And for an entire generation, it’s the feeling that history in this region never really ends.

And somewhere, history is sitting in the corner, smoking a cigarette and saying: “The word is out about something evolving… But to me, it seems quite clear - That it’s all just a little bit of history repeating.”