I think judging by the posts on this instance, a lot of people here didn’t think that Russia would take military action against Ukraine. I was one of those people. Hell, even yesterday I wasn’t expecting to wake up to this. But I think it’s safe to say that that position was incorrect.
I’ve read opinions from communists on both sides now that it’s happened of whether the military action was justified or not, but it seems that few are reflecting on the fact that we were wrong about the prediction that there was not going to be military action. Personally, I’m very surprised that this happened. I’d be curious to hear your thoughts.
If the US makes wild claims, and I for the life of me cannot figure out why they would do that, that’s not a good enough reason to believe they’re lying. Thinking the the US govt is making quite specific predictions (which will make them look stupid if untrue) because they lost their mind is just plain bad analysis.
When the Americans are lying it’s usually for an easy to see reason and/or it’s way less easily disprovable.
Other than that it’s that Russia’s economic position must be better than I thought. They clearly think they can’t be sanctioned to shit.