But I sure hope you may turn out to be right in the end, people starting being more picky with the information they use, and discerning more complicated patterns in the present situation...
This kind of event is a bigger, better dog whistle for the low information types.
Up in the sunnier parts of the tree the policy view was already set, and I don't think anything much has changed here.
Public debates exist for as long as people are willing to raise an issue by publishing pieces about the topic. So the real question would be have 99% of bloggers, editorialists and talking heads on radio and TV grown tired of the issue? As long as they keep arguing about whether Russia was right or wrong there is no winner and the issue isn't settled. It's a matter of attrition, not logic. -- $E(X_t|F_s) = X_s,\quad t > s$
