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HitgeopoliticsIf Russia invades Ukraine, it will not achieve a quick (<3-month) conquest; taking and occupying Ukraine would instead take well over a year and bog the Russian army down in a prolonged occupation.
A scored prediction by Peter Zeihan, made on .
Scored prediction
Hitgeopolitics“The Russians could still conquer all of Ukraine. But it would likely take over a year rather than less than three months.”
If Russia invades Ukraine, it will not achieve a quick (<3-month) conquest; taking and occupying Ukraine would instead take well over a year and bog the Russian army down in a prolonged occupation.
- Made on
- 2021-12-29
- Outcome
- Hit
- Importance
- 5 / 5
- Effect on score
- +4.6
What counted as right
- Status
- resolved
- Settled on
- 2023-02-24
Resolved TRUE if, following a Russian invasion, Russia had NOT conquered all of Ukraine within ~3 months and the war/occupation extended beyond ~1 year (i.e. no quick victory; prolonged campaign). Resolved FALSE if Russia took all of Ukraine within ~3 months.
Directional claim (no quick conquest; prolonged war) bore out. Verify should sanity-check the conditional encoding and the exact verbatim against the live/archived post.
Sources
Evidence of what happened
Russia invaded on 24 Feb 2022; by Feb 2023 (one year on) it controlled only parts of eastern/southern Ukraine, had withdrawn from around Kyiv in spring 2022, and the war was a grinding, multi-year conflict — exactly the prolonged-quagmire outcome, not a sub-3-month conquest.
Corrections
No public corrections.
Effect on the score
+4.6- How sure they sounded
- 80%
- Outcome
- Hit
- Importance
- 5 / 5
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Where this came from
If Russia invades Ukraine, it will not achieve a quick (<3-…- Methodology version
- v1.0.0
- Last computed
- August 2, 2026
- Made on
- 2021-12-29
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