I feel like there is a lot of noise in this thread.
Indeed. But it is still way better than what a similar topic would have generated on reddit or elsewhere.
An analogy that comes into my head is Brezhnev and the Czechoslovakia invasion.
Right, it used to happen every 12 years like a clockwork after the Soviets “liberated” Eastern Europe in 1944: 1956 Hungary, 1968 Czechoslovakia, 1980 Poland and Afghanistan. And by 1992 there was no more Soviet Union. In retrospect, I should have expected that another invasion is not out of the question.
Indeed. But it is still way better than what a similar topic would have generated on reddit or elsewhere.
Right, it used to happen every 12 years like a clockwork after the Soviets “liberated” Eastern Europe in 1944: 1956 Hungary, 1968 Czechoslovakia, 1980 Poland and Afghanistan. And by 1992 there was no more Soviet Union. In retrospect, I should have expected that another invasion is not out of the question.
After posting a comment at Marginal Revolution I admit this thread is great by comparison...