Watched the new Game of Thrones prequel last night and it got me thinking. Fifteen years back when the original series first aired, Westeros felt like pure fantasy—the geopolitics, the power struggles, all of it seemed so far removed from reality. But here's the thing: flash forward to today and honestly, it doesn't feel that detached anymore. The world's actually playing out like we're in one of those episodes. Wild shifts in alliances, rising tensions between major powers, the unpredictability of it all—it's starting to feel less like fiction and more like the actual headlines you read every morning.