Thread by @corsair21c

Seeing the world through soda straw of interwebs snapshots creates a distorting effect about perceiving SCALE

We even saw this cause horrid takes re initial invasion of Ukr

We see it now where a vid of a couple of armored vics doing urban exercise is treated like martial law

Rule of thumb long used by planners is 1 troop to every 40 pop. That is adjusted according to pop density & size of territory. Smaller numbers of troops can be mitigated through reconcentration but there’s a limit to that too

Occupying USA /physically/ is a near impossibility

But practical control can of course be achieved through non-physical means on a subject pop - psychological, nutritional, etc

Many such examples

But ppl worry about tanks in the streets like it’s a movie

Somewhat related to scale biases are such things as availability bias - for example, following mostly only far right accounts on twatter distorts how uncommon such views really are. Tiny islands within an unbelievably vast ocean of normiedom