I predict that like Afghanistan and Iraq, people will only understand and accept that they’ve been hornswoggled yet again with the passage of time. Three to five years from now, someone will write the definitive book or long form article on how the American empire threw Ukraine under the bus in the name of overextending and unbalancing Russia. Who will it be? I’m hoping, someone with enough of a mainstream reputation that it’s taken seriously.
Oh yes!
Actually, in my mind, I always call the 1990s/2000s/2010s the “End of History era” because it seems that nobody was thinking historically.
Like, compare it to the Cold War or the era between World War I and World War II (everyone knew damn well that they were living in a historical time-frame and that things were happening and changing).
Compare and contrast that with the era from the 1990s onward.