On the Tuesday before Russia invaded, I was invited to join a class at Yale’s School of Management. The colleague leading the class had seen me on television the prior Sunday and knew that I held an unusual opinion about Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelens’kyi: that if Russia invaded, he would stay, and that Ukraine would fight. My colleague had invited security advisers to former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump to participate remotely in the class, and he asked them to comment on my prediction. Talking down from the big screens, they all disagreed with me. For them, it was
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