Director’s Cut - When Repression Rules the World Stage: A Dance with Lucifer

 “Every war was first a war against children.” – Robin Grille

“All politics is a continuation of childhood.” – Alice Miller

Yesterday, the United States—led by Donald Trump—launched a brutal attack on Iran. Predictably, the mainstream media rushes to dissect it from a geopolitical angle. But the true origins of this disaster lie far deeper than policy, borders, or military strategy. They lie buried in childhood.

We live in a world where repressed childhood pain reenacts itself on a global stage. Every bomb dropped, every war waged, every authoritarian demand to "respect authority" without question—these are not signs of strength, but symptoms of unresolved trauma.

Trump, like so many others in power, is a tragic case of a boy who was never allowed to cry. His emotional wounds—inflicted by an emotionally distant, demanding father and a complicit, submissive mother—were never seen, never healed. He had to bury his fear, his longing, his pain. And what the child cannot express, the adult reenacts.

This is the real origin of the war machine: not hatred of the "other," but self-hatred projected outward. Repressed children grow into adults who unconsciously recreate the emotional prisons they once endured—only now, with bombs, sanctions, and laws.

The world watches in horror as these emotionally stunted men play God with human lives, but few dare to name the root cause. It is not politics—it is pain. It is not ideology—it is childhood.

Until humanity finds the courage to look honestly at the emotional devastation of repressed childhoods, we will continue to live in a world run by traumatized boys in suits and uniforms, performing their unconscious rage on the bodies of others.

If we ever hope to create peace, we must begin by listening to the unheard child within each of us. Not with sentimentality, but with truth. With fierce compassion. With the clarity to stop idealizing parents and start telling the truth about what happened to us.

Only then can we stop the cycle. Only then can the dance with Lucifer end.