I have one more prediction to add to the last two, and this one might be the most important of the three, because it’s not really a prediction about the war itself, it’s a prediction about the language people are going to use to lie about their relationship to the war. Here it is. AsContinue reading “The Charlatans Are Coming, And They’ll Call Themselves Peacemakers”
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The Script Is About To Flip, And Both Sides Are About To Be Wrong Again
I have another prediction, and I want to write it down now, in public, before it happens, so that when it does happen, and I think it will, there’s a record of someone calling it in advance instead of just nodding along after the fact like everyone always does. Here’s the prediction. If this trajectoryContinue reading “The Script Is About To Flip, And Both Sides Are About To Be Wrong Again”
The Wars Have Merged, And Now We Have To Choose What Happens Next
There’s a moment that happens sometimes in history where two separate fires that everyone assumed were contained finally touch, and instead of two fires you have one fire, bigger than either one alone, burning in a direction nobody fully controls. That moment happened this weekend. Ukraine struck an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea, aContinue reading “The Wars Have Merged, And Now We Have To Choose What Happens Next”