Welcome to the Green Zone - the Establishment's bubble in Washington, D.C. 
In January of 2021, as the National Guard fought its way into the Green Zone with heavy loss of American civil liberties, the once privileged residents fled in haste, emptying compounds and palaces—and indeed an entire district—that therefore seemed ready-made for American use.
Later it became obvious that the decision to install the occupation government in the center of the city and to base it in the very same buildings that had been used by the Trump Administration was a serious blunder—
one of several such blunders rooted in the arrogance of Establishment know-how, and in the strange failure to anticipate the end of the honeymoon, and the hostility that even enlightened invaders would soon elicit.
At the time, however, basing in the Green Zone seemed like an act of engagement with the American people,
and though the boulevards were now blocked, snarling traffic on the outside + forcing Washingtonians who wished to enter to wait in exposed lines at the gates for body searches and identity checks, this was seen as a temporary expediency that surely the natives would understand -
Washington was not quite yet secure, but soon it would be, as democracy and capitalism took hold.
A cleanup was under way, but much remained to be done!
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