Don't see any realistic chance of this. h/t @Wooster highlighting that they have announced plans for November 2025
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Confirmed previous forecast
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6%
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Aug 31, 2024 to Sep 30, 2024
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Moving up a bit based on it being announced that the new Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian is planning his first foreign visit to be to Iraq.
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3%
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Aug 31, 2024 to Feb 28, 2025
97%
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Moving up a bit, based on comments by @ScottEastman @JonathanMann and @404_NOT_FOUND
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Plugging the base rate data since 2020 into a Poisson model gives a 73% probability of a successful coup in the next 6 months.
Applying some reasonable weightings to account for the lack of successful coups in recent months gives a probability of around 55% (very sensitive to my subjective judgment)
Going to go somewhere in the middle at 66%, partly because there have been many attempted (failed) coups recently, so there is still a lot of latent coup-pressure, just they are not yet successful.
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Aug 31, 2024 to Feb 28, 2025
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Aug 31, 2024 to Feb 28, 2025
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In the United States, according to actuarial tables, a 71 year old man would have about a 2.3% chance of dying in this period.
Healthcare and life expectancy in Russia is considerably worse, but Putin is the president and presumably has access to very good healthcare.
Over the years there has been some reporting on his possible ill-health, which I don't attach zero credence to (I think some type of neurological disease is probable, but it doesn't seem to be advancing rapidly in a way that would greatly increase the chances of him leaving office in the next year).
Then there is also some political risk, if the Russian war in Ukraine turns out very badly for him.
For these reasons I will go up from the base rate (actuarial tables) by a couple of percentage points.
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They don't and won't have the capability.
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Aug 4, 2024 to Feb 4, 2025
It's looking a bit more likely.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80xxeqel5po
These are the types of signals you would expect to see in advance of a war.
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I thought that it would probably have happened by now if it was going to happen, still a decent chance it could happen in September.
Hezbollah don't look keen on further escalation into a full war. Israel kind of have their hands full.