Friday, March 13, 2026

 

The Silent Guest, 12th Day of Spring, 526 M.E. (Aldebaran): As I said yesterday, war is by definition a failure and nothing good comes from it, despite mankind's enthusiasm for the activity. 

During the first days of the Stable Genius' war on Iran, 167 people were killed when a missile struck a girls’ school in Iran , apparently because the Pentagon was using outdated targeting data. One of Iran's hundreds of counterattack missiles hit a makeshift command center in Kuwait, killing six US troops and wounding dozens more. None of those tragic deaths needed to or should have happened.

Due to a lack of foresight and planning, tens of thousands of US citizens were stranded in the region as the State Department tried to figure out a way to evacuate them. Due to a lack of foresight and planning, the U.S. has allowed Iran to effectively shut the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world's oil passes. 

The air strikes that killed the Ayatollah also killed many of the successors favored by the Stable Genius. In his first address regarding the war, the Stable Genius told the Iranian people to “take over your government” although no viable opposition party yet exists and with no indication of how that takeover should be done. 

The first six days of the war alone reportedly cost $11.3B, and it isn’t clear if that figure includes the cost of the military buildup or the cost of our missile defense. The ultimate toll of Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz on the world economy remains to be seen. 

I could gloat over these failures of my country, but I don't want to see us fail in this effort. I don't want the U.S. to lose this war. I want the the U.S. to end this war - just stop it, right now. The Stable Genius, not content in just destroying the U.S., is harming the world order in miscalculations and mistakes that will be felt for decades. It's already too late to stop the harm now, but we can still stop now before the harm gets even worse. 

Stop the war. Now.

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