What about the African Great War that started in 1997?
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gravediggersbiscuit@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoI see this said about the 90s all the time but really this is not true. In the 90s there was (not an exhaustive list)
- First Gulf War
- Yugoslavia war
- Rwandan Genocide
- Oklahoma City Bombing
- Columbine Massacre
- Los Angeles Riots
- The Fall Of USSR (while on one hand a good thing it also cause so much economic decline, hunger, and excess mortality in the millions to many former bloc countries)
- Somalian War
- Black Monday
- US 1990 recession
- 1997 Asian Financial crisis
- Dot com bubble
It’s very common when asking any person what was the best period of time for the world for their response to be a period of time their formative years were.
The reality is history is full of horrid horrid things and nostalgia is a follie that’ll trick your mind.
Lemmisaur@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 week ago
Yep, preach.
hark@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah, it’s less “stability in world events” and more so the west riding high off winning the cold war.
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yes, stuff still happened, but it was all mostly local scale in consequences or temporary blips. Conflicts, economic downturns, weather events can all be huge tragedies, but an entire super power cratered in on itself in '91 and splintered into smaller countries massively rewriting the political landscape. And in 2001, 9-11 happened and its arguably a starting point for a domino effect of terrible unhinged shit that followed that also had massive global political ramifications, arguably to this very day.