“I hate to say it, but I was born in 1961, so 30 years of my life were lived with the spectre of the Soviet Union.” “So, to me, this is sadly more the norm than it is the prediction.

There is a non-zero chance that a character in the Simpsons canon was directly responsible for arming Afghan Mujahideen fighters — including Osama bin Laden — during the Soviet-Afghan War, and ...

It was a more somber prognostication. Social media users have credited “The Simpsons” with predicting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.