Re:The Frog of War
by abruzzi on Monday March 07, 2022 @03:55PM
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agree or disagree with the list, is is very USA-centric. As a US citizen I can look to all the events he cites and agree at least to their impact, but aside from the internet and Ukraine, these are all things that happened to the US. I wonder how important the assasination of JFK, RFK, and MLK, or 9/11 were to non-US citizens? (I'm genuinely curious, I know that the reach on the US means that almost everyone is impacted becuase we strongly impact other countries with our actions, but are they seen as turning points outside of the US?)
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As an anecdote, up in Canada most people my age (born in the 90s) would likely still consider 9/11 to be the most impactful individual event of our lifetimes. Time will tell if COVID-19 ends up overtaking it in retrospect, I feel like it likely will.
Of course, it’s not lost on me that we’re probably the country most culturally similar to the US, so I suppose this is unsurprising.
9/11 was big. Too young to have witnessed the rest and I would not be able to say what were the consequences of mlk or jfk assassinations.
9/11 initiated a transfer of $5 trillion from American taxpayers to an enormously smaller group of (mostly also) Americans, incidentally laying waste to two or more Asian countries, and American civil society.
Billionaires made through invasions based mainly on lies do not tend subsequently to favor sound government.