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birmo.bsky.social
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33 days ago
The fall of the Soviet Union wasn’t this chaotic.
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tomjconley.bsky.social
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33 days ago
I look forward to the equivalent Adam Curtis documentary to the Trauma Zone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke600MgW1F0
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timwotherspoon.bsky.social
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32 days ago
I thought his most recent one was Can’t Get You Out Of My Head;
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tomjconley.bsky.social
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32 days ago
The year after.
There's no narration and it's a masterpiece.
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aussiesewerrat.bsky.social
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33 days ago
I hope all the historians are keeping a close watch. If we have universities in future the lectures will be interesting.
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claire02.bsky.social
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33 days ago
I'm beginning to think that studying history is a waste of time. Humans seem incapable of learning from history.
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timwotherspoon.bsky.social
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32 days ago
I study history to relax when I’m saturated by oceans of maniacal data; so pretty much all the time now…
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sjponeill.bsky.social
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33 days ago
Structured and organised in comparison.
It's pretty bad when even the Huns don't want a bar of your total implosion as a nation.
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poetfoley.bsky.social
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33 days ago
I miss Yeltsin. Nothing better than a happy drunk in charge of the nukes. Why spoil the 🥳
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jasonandrade.bsky.social
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33 days ago
That would because of the work of the Collapse of the Soviet Union Central Committee.
They hardly ever get credit for managing this..
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damaso.bsky.social
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33 days ago
They haven't started shelling Congress.... Yet.
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beeso.bsky.social
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33 days ago
That might have been a fake out after all
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tonyabb.bsky.social
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33 days ago
There were tanks. The USA is not quite there yet. Give it a few more days.
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tulamark.bsky.social
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31 days ago
The bad guys won the cold war.
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handbagsatdawn.bsky.social
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32 days ago
Or this fast.
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badenchant.bsky.social
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33 days ago
I feel like these guys saw the fire sale in 90s Russia and thought, "How can we get sweet deals like that in the USA?"
But...I also feel they aren't smart enough to be that machiavellian. More like kids with matches and a can of lighter fluid than 5d chess.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke600MgW1F0
There's no narration and it's a masterpiece.
It's pretty bad when even the Huns don't want a bar of your total implosion as a nation.
They hardly ever get credit for managing this..
But...I also feel they aren't smart enough to be that machiavellian. More like kids with matches and a can of lighter fluid than 5d chess.