Threat or Theatre: As Leaders Script, Lot Suffocate

Threat or Theatre: As Leaders Script, Lot SuffocateMujeeb Jaihoon exposes how scripted confrontations and political theatrics suffocate ordinary people under orchestrated power struggles. Each time, conflicts arise—leaders appear to be locked in scripted confrontations, while ordinary people pay the price. One is compelled to question the authenticity of these showdowns which spark overnight and de-escalate with equal haste. Behind the chest-thumping rhetoric, it's the common people—both in oppressive regimes and the oppressed territories—who face the brunt. The story repeats itself, with a haunting familiarity: conflicts are manufactured to distract, to control, and to dominate.