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I am guilty here as well but so were Russian comrades. I was literally talking to a Russian friend on discord the day it happened as it happened and we were both completely taken off guard.
I don't think anyone thought they were going to do a full scale invasion. And for we know maybe neither did they.
it's certainly been very costly and most of the "nah they wouldn't" was predicated on an unwillingness to pay those costs in materiel and blood.
So was I. We all kinda fucked up.
The only part of the left that didn't fuck up was the one writing about russian imperialism, which contributed to the benefit of the western media narrative taking hold.
The lesson we need to take from it is not to ignore conflicts happening and to make sure we analyse them better from the perspective of what narratives the west will want to push and pre-preparation against those narratives. People must be primed BEFORE the bourgeois media starts to make up their story. If they're not primed, the bourgeois media will win narrative wars.