@deprecated_ii @DW2 @Grenadier1 @Griffith @synapsid I mean, for the perfect storm of regime arrogance and incompetence, witness the fact that the US intentionally provoked a peer war with an industrial power after deindustrializing itself, and then expected the industrial power to be the one to get steamrolled on the battlefield and collapse internally.

There is no amount of blind stupidity that can be surprising after that.