[Spooky23]

Russia isn’t China. People may have disagreed over the timing, but the Russians already seized crimea and interfered with US elections to advance their Ukraine policy.

Russia is a declining petrostate. China is the world’s factory. Antagonizing their biggest trading partners won’t be a winning strategy for many years, if ever.

[reducesuffering]

> 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

Otherwise, you have no geopolitical cred

[Spooky23]

We’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]

We'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.