@Jgalt Excepting any bizarre non-forecasting related strategies, the probability that any of the 1% predictions on this question are made with both sound rationale and understanding of overconfidence in forecasting might be plausibly close to 1%.
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He thinks Washington wanted to create a false flag operation in the Donbass, something bloody, in order to draw Russia into a war.
How is this a remotely rational move? It's so risky that 66% should be overconfident.
@mumpskin Increasing buildup points in at least two directions: a predetermined invasion or a serious bluff where your opponent predictably won't back down quickly or easily. If the evidence was this cut and dry forecasters wouldn't be having such a hard time.
Yes, but not in a way sufficient to resolve this question positively.
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Why so much weight on late Dec? Question resolves ambiguously if it doesn't fall.
Watching the speech, it looks like a simple eastern intervention would be a dream outcome for Ukraine at this point.
@qw2019 They're not really comparable. Iraq was extremely hostile to the US and eastern Ukraine is sympathetic to Russia. Iraq was around the world from the US and Ukraine is next door to Russia. Russia has big PPP advantage vs US and as has been mentioned has self-sufficient arms and energy industries and a powerful trading partner in China. I think an invasion is under 50% likely; they may be willing to invade if necessary but US will probably make (private) powerful concessions to prevent this.
Therefore, it is dangerous to shut it down because it will make many people jobless (or significantly reduce their income)
According to Russian youtuber NFKRZ it's already difficult or impossible to get paid (at least from youtube and places like patreon) due to the sanctions.
Surprising that the community median is so stable over the past few days:
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Looks like their government is threatening to block youtube.
Apparently this is nominally related to two German-language RT channels being blocked.
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@BrunoYammine Really, this might be the other way around. Normally, there is no such thing as a surprise invasion because you need to move lots of stuff and this will be spotted.
In this case most of the "stuff" is already in place. If there is a decision to invade, dragging things out could actually be the best possible way to achieve as much surprise as possible. And the arms deliveries being publicized really are more of a drop in the bucket type deal; they're not a serious deterrent even if they go on for months.
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There are two major problem with the new design for those of us who like to browse large numbers of questions:
1) Density of questions is reduced, more scrolling needed to see equivalent number of questions.
2) Question titles broken up with data preview instead of simply listed one after the other, making question-to-question browsing less readable.
To solve this you can have an option to collapse the data previews and / or shift them to the right of the question text.
How much is the Ukraine situation influencing predictions?
Why so many people on 1%? Any 1%ers want to share their rationale?
@BrunoParga Censoring information that might give predictive power should be against everything Metaculus stands for. As pointed out by others this is a braindead request for many reasons, and with respect to the contributions of users here nobody on Metaculus so far is even doing primary OSINT.
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How much does an invasion increase risk of accidental nuclear use? It has to be more than 1%.