Endless Impact: How Wars Hurt Long After the Battles End #WarImpact #PeaceBuilding

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]The cruelest part is that even if the war stopped tomorrow, the damage would keep unfolding.

[00:00:08]Some of that is for physical reasons, simple military ones like clearing mines out of the straight, but the fertilizer that wasn't applied this spring, you can't retroactively apply it. It will result in decreased crop yields in the harvest this fall.

[00:00:25]Iran has lost 18 months of human development over the couple of months of the war.

[00:00:31]They don't get that back the moment the missiles stop flying.

[00:00:35]The orchard, once burned, is not restored by putting out the flame.

[00:00:40]Or to put it more simply, you can't move back into your house as soon as the fire department leaves, as some people in California have discovered.

[00:00:49]So, that's the dark age policy. That's dark age policy in its sharpest form.

[00:00:55]Not just the cessation of creative work, but the active destruction of it.