Cruel potentates

establish 'peace', simply by --


creating wastelands.


Dictators stichtenDie Herrscher stiften
graag 'vrede', door het scheppen --'Frieden', indem sie schaffen:

van woestenijen.Wüste und Ödland.

Poem S1904
Amsterdam, 2023-09-08
On the life and character of Julius Agricola (Publius Cornelius Tacitus) - 98
For example, Russia in Syria and Ukraine
Political biography "De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae" ("On the life and character of Julius Agricola", AD 98, Publius Cornelius Tacitus), § 30: 'Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ibi solitudinem faciunt, pacem apellant' ('To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire, and where they make a desert they call it peace')

Collection: May the Might
Keywords: Power: murder / annihilation, Russia, Peace: and war 
Tribute to: Tacitus, Publius 


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