So, the lights are out in Kyiv. Again.

If you needed more proof that humanity is just a bunch of monkeys with bigger sticks, here it is. Russia, the big bad bear next door, has decided that if they can’t win a fair fight, they will just flip the breaker switch. They are smashing Ukraine’s power plants. They are blowing up the grid. And now, the whole city of Kyiv is plunging into darkness.

It is pitch black. It is freezing cold. And it is completely stupid.

Let’s look at the facts here. The officials in Kyiv are saying that Russia keeps hitting their energy system. It’s not an accident. It’s a plan. A very dumb, very mean plan. The idea is simple: make life so miserable for normal people that they just give up. It’s the logic of a bully on a playground who breaks your toys because you won’t let him win at kickball.

Because of these attacks, they have to do "rolling power outages." That is a fancy way of saying they turn the power off on purpose so the whole system doesn’t blow up. Imagine that. You are sitting in your house, it is freezing outside, and the government has to cut your heat just to keep the wires from melting.

And it is getting cold. Really cold. The officials are warning everyone that the temperature is dropping. They say "cold snaps" will make things worse. Thanks for the update, geniuses. I think the people shivering in their living rooms already figured that out. You don’t need a degree in science to know that winter is cold and having no heater sucks.

This is where we are in the twenty-first century. We have smartphones. We have space rockets. We have cars that drive themselves. But one guy with a missile can send millions of people back to the 1800s in a split second. We think we are so advanced. We think we are so smart. We aren’t. We are just fragile.

Think about how weak our world is. We built everything to run on electricity. Our heat, our water, our food storage, our stupid social media apps. It all needs juice. And the moment the juice stops flowing, civilization falls apart. We are helpless. We are soft.

Russia knows this. They know that fighting soldiers is hard. Soldiers shoot back. But power lines? Power lines just stand there and wait to get blown up. It is a coward’s war. It is lazy. But it works, doesn't it? It makes everyone miserable.

And what about the rest of the world? What about the "heroes" in the West? Oh, they love to talk. They love to put flags on their profiles. They send guns. They send tanks. They send big speeches about freedom and bravery. But can they keep the lights on? No.

They watch from their warm offices in Washington and Brussels while Kyiv freezes. It’s all a game to them. The Left screams about justice while doing nothing real to stop the bleeding. The Right screams about money and how much this is costing us. Everyone is yelling. No one is fixing the damn power grid.

The officials say there are "emergency cuts." That means the power goes out when you don’t expect it. You are cooking dinner? Too bad. You are trying to work? Too bad. You are trying to keep your grandma warm? Tough luck. The system is broken.

This is the reality of war. It isn’t glory. It isn’t flags waving in the wind. It is sitting in the dark, wearing three coats, wondering if the food in the fridge will spoil before the heat comes back on. It is misery. pure and simple.

And for what? Lines on a map? Egos of old men in suits?

Russia wants to break Ukraine’s spirit by freezing them. Ukraine is trying to patch holes in a sinking ship. The rest of us are just watching it on TV like it is a movie.

The cold is coming. The darkness is already there. And nobody in charge—not in Moscow, not in Kyiv, not in D.C.—seems to have a brain cell left to solve it. They will just keep blowing things up until there is nothing left to break.

So, bundle up. It’s going to be a long, dark winter. And don't expect the people in charge to save you. They can't even keep a lightbulb on.