it’s very Vonnegut

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It was useful though because you could see the people who moved seamlessly between "obviously Russia isn't going to invade Ukraine" and "obviously Russia had no choice but to invade Ukraine" and then ignore everything they ever said forever after.

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I remember the one that really got the opsec ppl panicking was blood supply trucks bc of the short expiry date

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I'ma put on my ushanka and say, "The correlation of politico-military and geo-economic forces was more favorable in 1968." A Soviet general staff would have known it was stupid but he had a bunch of guys who thought blowing up Chechnya, seizing Crimea, and bombing Syria were brilliant victories.

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Until about a week or two before, I also thought it wouldn't happen - I thought they were going to annex Donbas but I didn't think of a full invasion because 150 000 or so troops is not even near enough to invade a country of over 600 000 km2 and 45 million people. But Putin is dumb as a door.

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