The poll isn’t the signal. The gap is.

Public line: limited war.

Actual posture: more troops, more movement, more options being built.

That’s how escalation works. The mission expands before the language does.

And inside the force, the first sign usually isn’t open refusal. It’s people quietly starting to ask how far this is going and what their options are.

We’re not at collapse.

But we’re not at zero anymore either.