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Hobbes

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-0.056113

Relative Brier Score

211

Forecasts

5

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Comments 0 6 106 93 338
Questions Forecasted 0 19 52 39 165
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Power Forecaster - Oct 2025

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Star Commenter - Oct 2025

Earned for making 5+ comments in a month (rationales not included).
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Hobbes
made their 1st forecast (view all):
Probability
Answer
0%
Europe allocates the same amount or less than the U.S.
0%
More than €0 but less than €10 billion
0%
At least €10 billion but less than €20 billion
85%
At least €20 billion but less than €30 billion
15%
€30 billion or more
Why do you think you're right?

The gap is currently E18.4b as of the end of August. It is almost certain that it will increase and therefore fall into one of the two latter categories. On current trends alone it is unlikely that it will fall into category 5 (E30b or more) however if it does it will be because of a sudden change i.e. the US drastically reducing its commitment further or the EU significantly increasing its. Neither of these seem particularly likely, with a number of GOP senators highly supportive of Ukraine, and a Europe facing fianncial difficulties.

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Why might you be wrong?

A successful push to increase the EU contribution or (perhaps more likely) strong-arming from JD Vance might result in the pace of the gap widening enough to push us into the five bucket, but it seems unlikely.

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Why do you think you're right?

Woops! I appear to have inverted the correct judgmenet last time around, This is obviously lower than it should be, however bear with me as I correct the imbalance.

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Why might you be wrong?

The US relationship with China is complex, but it is obviously incentivized to retard the progress of the Chinese AI agency.

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made their 21st forecast (view all):
Probability
Answer
1% (-1%)
Moldova
2% (+2%)
Armenia
2% (-1%)
Georgia
1% (0%)
Kazakhstan
Why do you think you're right?
Russia is seemingly shifting focus to Armenia, now that it has failed to intervene in the Moldovan election. [1]

[1] https://caliber.az/en/post/russia-shifts-focus-to-armenia-after-regional-setbacks-moldovan-president-warns
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Why might you be wrong?

If there is a sudden reversal in the posiition of the Georgian government, it is definitely plausible that Russia would intervene to prop them up.

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Why do you think you're right?

Recent movements seem to be towards supporting Ukraine in its development and deployment of Flamingo.

Update - The US has just announced it will be transferring Tomahawk to Ukraine [1]. Not immediately obvious whether this will decrease the odds of European missile supply because the US has green lit the idea or....

[1[ https://united24media.com/latest-news/pentagon-reportedly-approves-potential-tomahawk-missile-transfer-to-ukraine-pending-trumps-decision-13014

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Why might you be wrong?

...Decrease it because there will be less need if Ukraine has tomahoks.

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