Russia/Ukraine – The Tribal Self Escalates Retaliation, Killing Civilians to Feed the Hallucination of Justice

Event Baseline: A Ukrainian drone strike on an industrial city in Russia's Tatarstan region killed at least 13 people and injured 75, marking one of the deadliest attacks deep inside Russian territory.

Each side's self sees its strikes as righteous, the other's as terrorism. This is the mechanical cycle of identification with the phantom of the nation. The drone that kills Russian civilians is programmed by a Ukrainian self that cannot feel their pain, because they are 'them.' The belief in a separate, sacred homeland justifies any horror. This loop of vengeance has no exit within the logic of the tribal self. Only a complete dissolution of the Us/Them hallucination can stop the descent into mutual annihilation.