[mikercampbell]

A lot of historians are drawing parallels between recent events and the events leading up to WW1. I’m not an expert, but it isn’t absurd to say that it could happen.

[nprateem]

That's like investors trying to predict a crash. You can only ever make sense of things retrospectively.

[hiddencost]

First land war in Europe since WW2, 500K casualties, idk what you want in terms of empiricism here, but, uh ...