america at its core is a profoundly privileged country that managed to imperialize without ever having to face a reckoning for it, won two world wars without its shores facing occupation, then had unparalleled prosperity for decades. this country has never had to actually face an existential crisis
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geoffrey
i've failed to articulate for weeks now the near universal failure of the us press to truly understand, and crucially express back to the american people, what these events mean to europeans — how for us this may be abstract democracy-signaling (no small fault of the press) but for them existential
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