Imperial Infections
(after the sonnet style of Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin)

Looks like Kabul. Looks like Saigon.
Taliban and Viet Cong.
Days of Empire better bygone.
Nations to themselves belong.
U S A screams “Rules based order!”
(Can’t defend its southern border.)
One more losing warfare spree,
much like Nineteen Sixty Three:
U S proxi puppet frightened
as his usefulness grows less;
(losers make an awful mess.)
Sponsor wants the burden lightened.
Time to ditch this nagging pain,
like the others; now, Ukraine.