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Re:The 90s Were Objectively the Best Time to Be Alive by 082349872349872 on Monday February 06, 2023 @02:47PM (#34683192)
> a time of boundless optimism and futurism in America, and both the 2000s ... completely upended that.

Only upended because people fell for the whole "terrorism" con.

(also we were ignoring the former Yugoslavia, as well as the entire FSU in general — but IMNSHO "terrorism" was an unforced error.)

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Re:The 90s Were Objectively the Best Time to Be Alive by Apocryphon on Monday February 06, 2023 @02:51PM (#34683264)
The West was, sure, but then it seemed like the intervention was pretty successful. It was internationally approved, got rid of Milošević, didn't run into any long-term nation-building woes as with all of the War on Terror operations. Of course, during it there were the seeds of future conflicts to come- the NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, the standoff with Russian forces at Pristina airport that future pop star James Blunt had to defuse to prevent WWIII.
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