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Chronocentrist bias notwithstanding, I feel like we are truly living through a pivotal moment in History, as the pendulum forcefully swings away from the most progressive era on human record toward, well, the great unknown. A nine-part thread 🧵
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Specifically, I feel like we're reaching the end of a liminal period in time, bookended on one side by the hubristic Western confidence of the triumphant post-Cold War period, best embodied by the fall of the Berlin wall (to the tune of The Scorpions' "Winds of Change") and Fukuyama's End of History; and, on the other, by the most recent indiscriminate and shameless reexamination of every 20th-century dogma about domestic politics, economic theory, foreign affairs, national identity, territorial sovereignty, the concept of money, and more. 2/9
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9/11 was arguably the first major Western event to chip away at the post-Cold War certainties, reminding us that History is less Fukuyama than it is Huntington. To those paying attention, the 1992 Bosnian War and the 1998 Kosovo War were leading indicators that the world order was not as settled as we had assumed. The 2008 Georgia War and the 2022 Ukraine War are merely further evidence of that erosion. 3/9
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You skipped the Palestinian Genocide. Not only the most assymetric one among all of these but also the most streamed / televised one. Not sure why westerns are so easy to skip over western crimes.
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I view the Middle East as having had its own parallel history since 1948, with multiple conflicts before, during, and after the Cold War; so in a way, it is a narrative of its own (I lump Israel with the rest of the ME here, not as foreign object). I’m not trying to ignore it, it just wasn’t the topic here. But if anything, the balance of power in the region has changed so drastically since Israel’s outsized response to the Nova festival massacre in Oct 2023, relative to any other time in modern history, that it’s more evidence of the global inflection point I was eluding to
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This is still a very very narrow view - because that very outsized response always existed since the start of the colonial project. Even if we say w/e let's not go into details of this conflict, lumping Israel with ME doesn't make sense. Israel represents the West, financially, politically, diplomatically, and even culturally - so somehow skipping over the most obvious criminal acts (Iraq, Palestine) when it's done by the "liberal western world order" and somehow reflecting on Kosovo or Ukraine or some other (even Georgia!!) is just really odd, especially when you simply look at the numbers. I insist it's very much THE topic, because the "liberal" mask was always off in these places, it was just far from eyes when Fukuyama was ending the history. Trump/Elon imperialism is just the more brazen version of liberal imperialism.
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