And yet predictable != inaccurate If I predict ahead of time that my plans to install a puppet government in Machuria and invade China are going to be compared

And yet predictable != inaccurate If I predict ahead of time that my plans to install a puppet government in Machuria and invade China are going to be compared unfavorably to Japan's actions in WW2, that doesn't somehow magically make the comparison inaccurate just because I predicted it.