War is evil and stupid and we shouldn’t do it.

Now in my sixth decade on this planet, I have seen the US and other countries (but mostly the US) start a bunch of wars, and I think I have learned a few things.

War is always bad and no one should ever start one. I’m not the first to say it, but you’re always the bad guy if you start a war.

No matter what problem you think you are solving by starting a war, the consequences of that war will always be worse than those of the problem you thought you were solving. And the war probably won’t solve that problem anyway.

If you’ve started a war, you’re better off just fucking ending it, and the sooner the better. A bunch of people will say a bunch of crap about how the situation will only get worse if you pull out now, but if you’re in the middle of a war, the situation is already really bad and you are actively making it worse by keeping it going.

As for the current war the US has started in Iran, the Trump regime is a bunch of venal morons and they have no plan. While the war they have started may happen to serve to some degree as a distraction from their other problems, I am skeptical that there was any big strategy to it. They thought it would be cool and that it would make them feel like Big Men. It will blow up in their faces (because wars always do), so there’s that. Unfortunately, it is already blowing up non-metaphorically in a bunch of other people’s faces first.

The whole thing is an evil, inexcusable disaster that will get worse for everyone involved every day that it keeps going.