[Ukraine / Children] - The Teaching Self Arms the Young With a Phantom Warrior Past, Proving the Illusion of a Heroic Future

Event Baseline: Ukrainian children are being taught 17th-century Cossack warrior skills, including horsemanship and military training, as part of their education during the ongoing war. The program frames it as a way to escape reality but it instills identity with violence.

The tribe transmits its trauma to the next generation. The child is not learning history; it is being programmed to die for a flag. The illusion of a heroic past is pasted over the present killing fields. This is the mechanical wheel of revenge: the self cannot see that war is its own child. By arming the young, it guarantees the war will never end. The observer (adult) is separate from the observed (child), so the adult inflicts its wound. The child becomes a symbol, not a living being. This is the death of the future. The only escape offered is to become a killer. The self cannot see that the enemy is the same self in a different uniform.