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> People may have disagreed over the timing It's very revisionist to act like the prevailing wisdom was that a full invasion was coming. Please cite your asses
by reducesuffering 4y ago
> People may have disagreed over the timing
It's very revisionist to act like the prevailing wisdom was that a full invasion was coming. Please cite your assessment or prediction about the upcoming Russian invasion at least a month before it happened, since it was so clear.
For example: https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1473362460673515527 https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1473362460673515527
Otherwise, you have no geopolitical cred
- Spooky23 4y agoWe’re talking on a message board. Nobody here has “geopolitical cred” You can be pedantic about Nostradamus like predictions. But if you were surprised that Russia invaded Ukraine, your threshold for surprise is low. After all, they annexed a big part of the country a few years ago.
- reducesuffering 4y agoWe'll be saying the same thing in 10 years. > But if you were surprised that Russia [China] invaded Ukraine [Taiwan], your threshold for surprise is low. After all, they claim it's their territory, won't disavow claiming it through force, dissuade other countries from even visiting it, regularly perform military drills around it, and annexed Tibet while people today were still alive.