Declaring Victory Over the Ruins...

Mosul: 

They declare victory... They say the Islamic-Jihadists are defeated... 

They raise the flags... and shout slogans of victory... They congratulate each other... but then the reality is sad and once again the reality attests that wars kill... and create ruins... and displace people and create refugees...

   The guns are provided by Russia and China and the Western "liberal democracies..." The guns are provided by Europe-Russia-U.S. and China... and the people of the world fight each other... holes are created in the walls.. cities are devastated... ruined... and then one side or the other declare victory... and the victories stand on the ruins and brandish their arms and flags...  

Mosul... another city in ruins... All buildings have holes in them... and most of the population has fled... most of the people have become refugees...
They, the 1% and their governments, may have a victory... but we, the people, have paid the price... WE are murdered... WE are killed... and our cities devastated and our houses ruined...
They benefited and profited from the war... but WE the people suffered... and became refugees. 

  

Houses have collapsed... and have to be razed to the ground... they are not livable... they are not habitable... 
They sold the guns and ammunition... They sold the bombs... and profited... But the people have no place to live now...
Of course they claimed victory... but the people are left in the ruins... without food and home...

 
Ruins of a liberated city... The ruins of Mosul... and on the ruins of the city... surrounded by famished people... they declared victory...

But,

Liberation of Mosul does not end the crisis in the Middle East... It does not herald fraternity, equality and liberty...

Indeed one side overwhelmed the other, but the root causes of the turmoil in the Middle East and in the world still persist... 

People want equality, fraternity and liberty... but the Western Liberal Democracies essentially defend the greed of the 1% and exploit the rest of the world... devastate the natural resources and exploit the people... The 1% and their system want cheap labour... they want cheap resources... 

As long as the 1% wants the satisfy its insatiable greed and profit from the exploitation of the peoples of the Middle East and the rest of the world... then wars will be instigated... wars will be fought and the 1% will declare victories on the ruins of Mosul and other cities...

The Islamic Jihadists have exploited the misery of the people... and as long as miser,  hunger, exploitation and oppression continues... there will always be groups, like the Islamic Jihadist to take advantage of the situation...

The Islamic Jihadists may go away... but other Jihadists and other fascist groups will sprout and attempt to take advantage of the turmoil...

If the West persist on its course of greed and exploitation... If the West allies with fascist rulers like Erdogan of Turkey, Like Aliev of Azerbaijan... and defend the brutal monarchy of Saudi Arabia... then turmoil will persist...

We should stop manufacturing arms... after all if arms are manufactured, then for sure they will be used... and wars kill the youth of BOTH SIDES...