Funny. I'm pretty sure Louis XIV said pretty much the same thing.
Just before they did.
See, that's just it. NOBODY EVER SEES IT COMING.
I wrote an intel report in 1984, analyzing the economic situation in Poland and extending that into the Warsaw Pact, predicting the fall of the Soviet Union and with it the entire Warsaw pact, within 5 years, and exactly why it would happen. That report went up the chain, disappeared into the "5-sided wind-tunnel" and AFAIK, was never seen again.
So in 1989, when the Berlin Wall was breached and marked the beginning of the end of the whole shebang, I was apparently the ONLY one in the room who WASN'T surprised.
It's no longer a matter of "if" anymore. We already passed the "if" exit a couple of miles back.
BulletStopper 2 points 7 months ago
Funny. I'm pretty sure Louis XIV said pretty much the same thing.
Just before they did.
See, that's just it. NOBODY EVER SEES IT COMING.
I wrote an intel report in 1984, analyzing the economic situation in Poland and extending that into the Warsaw Pact, predicting the fall of the Soviet Union and with it the entire Warsaw pact, within 5 years, and exactly why it would happen.
That report went up the chain, disappeared into the "5-sided wind-tunnel" and AFAIK, was never seen again.
So in 1989, when the Berlin Wall was breached and marked the beginning of the end of the whole shebang, I was apparently the ONLY one in the room who WASN'T surprised.
It's no longer a matter of "if" anymore. We already passed the "if" exit a couple of miles back.