At first I thought this was about the recent Israel-Palestine situation in Gaza but now at the end I'm not sure exactly which scenario you're talking about here? You seem to be really politically informed but I found it hard to know exactly what you meant. Maybe that's what you meant. But if I missed something, let me know or write a new article going into more detail in prose. Still an interesting read though.

Hi Lilian, thank you for your comment. I actually wrote this nearly two years ago during a period of intense interest in the "realist" side of the political spectrum. Honestly, there is no specific war scenario I am referring to. As you noticed, the ending seems to shift the poem into another direction. That was exactly my intention...
It is really a critique on the mass media and the way information about politics reaches the average citizen. Bias is a common denominator when it comes to "reporting the facts." To me, being a "political realist" in today's terms means accepting that we will never really know what is going on in the world. It centers on the idea that "trust" in IR is an obsolete notion. In a sense, the entire poem itself is expressing the ambiguity of the news media. It appears to have one message, yet underneath, it is telling an entirely different story.
A few people who read this poem today told me that their immediate reaction was to link it to last night's attacks in Gaza. Others asked if it was related to Israeli-Iranian conflicts... I remember that as I was writing it, I wanted to leave the poem's message open enough so that I wasn't pointing the reader towards one particular idea. Thus, any interpretation is appreciated!