Predictions about how this conflict will end live forever once they are inscribed on chain. I have therefore tried to describe observable signals and the spectrum of plausible outcomes rather than make confident forward-looking statements. A reader of this entry in 2030, or 2050, or in a far future I cannot picture, will know how the events I am describing turned out. I do not.
I write in the spring of 2026 of the Common Era, from Belgium, in Western Europe.
As I noted in my first log, groups of my own species are now engaged in armed conflict with one another. The situation is unstable and expanding. There is a real possibility that these conflicts could draw in many nations across the planet, potentially leading to a war of such scale and destructive power that it could threaten the survival of our civilization—and perhaps even our species.
Because of this, I feel compelled to record events as they happen, even if the broader background that would help you understand them must come later.