Happening: The Ukraine War 2022
The Last Argument of Kings
On 22/2/22, Putin decided to become a King. Cannons are their last arguments.
My ultimate predictions (made a few hours before the fireworks started):

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I tend to stay away from moralistic judgments as they are highly subjective and of scant interest to me. But I will make a brief exception here. It would have been vastly better for all concerned had the unity of the Russian World - brutally contorted under the Bolsheviks, outright torn apart in the Belovezha Betrayal - been restored through boring but bloodless bureaucratic integration vehicles before the Euromaidan ruled it out, or even genuine federalization under Minsk II, had it ever been conscientiously implemented. It is Western Supremacists and their local collaborators who hoodwinked part of our people with sweet lies and false promises, humiliating and exploiting them even as they turned their hands against their brothers and sisters, who are the real authors of the present war. All the blood is on their hands. They started this war, but I believe that we will end it, quickly and humanely, and then we will make the miscreants answer for their crimes.
The West doesn't need lies to lure away Ukraine from Russia, the abysmal treatment towards your own people does the trick for us. Please write some more about how Ukrainians and Russians are a brother people before you continue to genocide those brothers.
I must admit publicly that I was wrong. I did not anticipate an operation quite of this scale. I was sure, based on the record of Russia's previous behaviour, that the pressure would be psychological mostly.
So far they have declared that they aren't going to annex anything, but then again, I'm not really sure about anything anymore.