Just a thought:
Imagine the progress we could've made had we sided with the Pan-Arab Nationalists instead of Israel in the 1950's-70's.
Ugh.
there are always these woulda-coulda-shouldas in history. as a man born in 1990, I've only known a unipolar world. the idea that the US-NATO bloc was dead scared of the Soviet model in the 50s and 60s, with bourgeois economists projecting Russian living standards would surpass the US by 2000, is nearly impossible for me to wrap my head around. when Khrushhev said "history is on our side, we will attend your funeral", it wasn't reducible to simple jingoistic rhetoric. the Soviets believed it, and the at least a few American bureaucrats did, too.
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