Future Fears

I generally try to stay away from politics, but the last two days things have happened on a global scale that are scaring me to death about the future my child and possible future children are going to have to grow up into. As a really quick overview - some protestors attacked the US embassy in Iraq, so in retaliation (or as he stated, “to prevent a war”) Trump ordered the assassination of a high ranking Iranian official and a militia leader. Iran logically responded with anger claiming they would retaliate. Trump in his infinite wisdom used twitter to issue a threat against 52 Iranian targets including targets of cultural significance. To me this sounded like a declaration of war as well as proof that Trump is more than willing to commit war crimes. I am horrified at the possibility of my child(ren) might have to grow up during WWIII. I know they would not have ever grown up in a time of complete peace, but this seems like it is going to be such a large scale conflict that no one will be safe. I don’t know how I will explain this moment in the future, but this is the moment that my heart broke for the future.