When Bombs Fall on Your Cities, the Stock Market Keeps Rising

Somewhere, explosions thunder. Somewhere, cities are being wiped off the map. Somewhere, mothers search for their children under the rubble. Meanwhile, at the next table, people discuss tenders. Someone signs a multimillion-dollar contract. Someone prepares a new IPO.

Because, for the most part, the world doesn’t care.

Not because people are bad. It’s just that in the global system, everything has long been put in its place: economic interests always come before morality. Blood doesn’t stop oil deliveries. Destroyed homes don’t affect exchange rates. The deaths of civilians are just background for new financial reports.

No one cares. And that’s normal.

It’s naive to believe that anyone in the modern world will seriously stand up for justice. The world has long become an arena of cynical bargaining: resources, influence, control.

• When the US bombed Iraq, some countries expressed “deep regrets,” while others signed new oil contracts.

• When there was fighting in Syria, other countries increased their exports to the region.

• When one country attacks another, part of the world publicly condemns it, while the rest calmly keeps trading.

Morality is a commodity. It’s waved in front of TV cameras, but behind closed doors, it’s sold at a discount.

Behind beautiful words lies cynical calculation.

All international institutions are, in essence, just paperwork for the balance of power.
UN, OSCE, G20, “friends of peace” groups — all of these work perfectly well until real money is at stake.

As soon as the question is about capital flows, pipelines, oil, or trade corridors, all the beautiful declarations are forgotten. Because big business is not built on moral grounds.

Remember: when you’re being bombed, no one will impose an embargo that would hurt their own companies. No one will cut off their own gas. No one will sacrifice their economy for justice in another country.

Social media is not help, just empty noise.

Yes, you’ll see thousands of posts. There’ll be #StopWar, there’ll be tears on Instagram, there’ll be slogans.
But behind all that noise — nothing.

Behind every loud post is a person who goes for coffee five minutes later. Behind every flash mob is a corporation that immediately signs a new contract.

The world keeps turning. Apps are updated. The banking system works.

Don’t fool yourself: a social media post won’t stop a tank or close the sky.

No one is coming to save you.

There hasn’t been a global policeman who comes to the rescue for a long time.

At best, there’ll be a tribunal in 10–20 years, when everything is already divided up. There’ll be fine words about “recovery,” there’ll be competitions for international aid. All of that — after the fact.

When the bombs are falling, there’ll be silence around you.

NATO won’t die for another country.

The EU won’t give up its comfort for your destroyed homes.

The US won’t stop trading for your tragedy.

And don’t expect ordinary people abroad to rise up in crowds. They have their own mortgages, jobs, vacations, their own worries.

Your only chance is to be just as indifferent to them.

In this world, those who survive are the ones who make their own rules.
Don’t waste your life believing in abstract values that are sold off in the corridors of power at the snap of a finger.

👉 Build your own support system.
👉 Create your own reserves.
👉 Be prepared to rely only on yourself.

Because when it really starts, outside your window there will be silence, and online — a summer sneakers sale.

No one gives a damn. And neither should you.
Take care of yourself. Take care of your own. Everything else is dust.