I think there is no passive voice. If you prefer to replace "Then it did happen" with "Russia attacked", that is of course fine. But after Russia attacked ther

I think there is no passive voice. If you prefer to replace "Then it did happen" with "Russia attacked", that is of course fine. But after Russia attacked there were several Neocon interviews where they acted surprised and did frame it as "We did not think it would happen" in a very casual way.