Originally Posted by
Excargodog
I think you are agreeing with the author that “forecasting is another word for guessing” with your statement. Yeah, 20 years of effort and $2.3 TRILLION in the cr@pper in Afghanistan because we couldn’t comprehend why the locals didn’t want to change their culture because it as so alien to our values.
Yes. Totally agree. Deterrence these days is just another euphemism for wild a$$ guessing and everybody knows it. Almost everybody. Any number of cause/effect outcomes are now conceivable. Except of course a land for peace deal. Not bloody likely. No matter what general’s plan as Russia continues to blast crap out of Ukraine right into year 4. All of it rationalized with contemptuous mockery and a bottomless bucket of cynical, absurd lies.