Please help to translate "Wladimir Putin ruminating on "SMO""

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Wladimir Putin ruminating on "SMO"

I named it special, swift, and neatly done,

a measured stroke "to guard the nation’s pride";

yet people bleed beneath a broken sun,

and mothers, children wept on every side.

I watched the columns falter in the snow,

the maps unrolled like promises grown thin;

the quiet coffins lined in rigid row,

and doubt creeps through the iron of my skin.

I hear the echo of a single word,

“Why?”, rising louder than the drums of war;

the costs of whom "my people" never heard,

the "yield" no armored speech can mask no more.

I'd better banish SMO from every mind

and turn the key and leave that war behind.

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