[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.