Haste of the Avenging Hound, 63rd Day of Childwinter, 526 M.E. (Castor): I see in the news that the Stable Genius is angry that the UK, France, Spain, Canada, Australia, and other allies are not supporting the U.S. in its Iran adventure. Our black-out drunk Secretary of Defense called out “so many of our traditional allies who wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force." With diplomacy like that, how could they refuse to join in? 

FWIW, you don't get to bully your neighbors, threaten to annex them as the "51st state" or seize their territory, shove illegal and outrageous tariffs down their throats while accusing them of cheating on you, trash talk their leaders, threated to tear up decades-old alliances, and then turn around and expect them to come to your aid in an illegal war of choice that you started as a distraction from the nearly 4,000 times you're mentioned in the Epstein files.

It's well documented that the Stable Genius watches a lot of Fox News on a daily basis, apparently believing every word they speak. For decades, they've been calling for military strikes on Iran. Last year, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and Brian Kilmeade pleaded with the Stable Genius to bomb Iran and when he finally did, they lavished praise on him, with Hannity saying the bombing would “go down in history as one of the great military victories.”

Could the encouragement by Fox News be the reason the Stable  Genius started this war? Or did it  have something to do with the increasing heat over the Epstein files? Or was it a tantrum over the Supreme Court striking down his tariffs? Or was he responding to pressure from Netanyahu or bribery from Bone-Saw Arabia? Or all of the above?

Friendly reminder that Fox News, CNN, CBS, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the NY Post are all owned and controlled by billionaire allies of the Stable Genius. They also control Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X), TikTok, and more. They control the AI that drives the algorithms that feed your content. With info sources like that, is it any wonder we all find this war a little bewildering and confusing?     

The stated reasons for the war keep changing. First it was to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and then it was for regime change. Our b.o.d. DoD secretary said it was revenge for U.S. citizens killed by Iran and its proxies over the year. The Stable Genius, who's mind and worldview seems to have stalled in the 1980s, has even mentioned the 1979 takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran and the American hostages (who were released over 40 years ago).

Whatever the reason, our so-called leadership seems to have forgotten that the removal of Hussein in Iraq only resulted in long-term instability, sectarian violence, insurgencies, and a fragmented, often corrupt political system still struggling with democracy. 

The 20-year intervention in Afghanistan ended in failure, despite over 2,400 American deaths and  $90 billion spent in security and nation-building. The U.S. was not able to establish a stable, self-sustaining Afghan government, resulting in the Taliban’s swiftly regaining control following the U.S. withdrawal. 

Removal of Gaddafi from Libya only created a failed state characterized by prolonged chaos, civil war, and a descent into fragmentation with rival governments in the east and west, militia proliferation, and foreign interference. 

The aftermath of Syria saw a mixture of jubilation over the end of five decades of Assad's brutal rule along with serious sectarian rivalry, a major realignment of regional power with Turkey, Qatar, and the US holding increased influence, and a nation still in considerable  flux.

War is never the answer and is always a symptom of other failures. War is what happens when other things don't work. The world is broken, the Middle East is broke, the U.S. is broken, and our leadership is broken. The center does not hold, and things are falling apart.