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2022 in Historical Context -- How Do You Like Your New Gilded Age?

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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World War Two and the Way People Spoke About Ukraine

Although no one wants a massive global conflagration nonetheless this sense of commitment and obligation ended up pulling in one player after another after another until it became a massive world war. The way that people's hearts went out and the way people spoke about ukraine to me for one thing struck me as remarkably similar to the way people talked about belgium. And also the way people have spoken about pouton and the idea that his psychology his sort of evil twisted psychology must be the only explanation for why this war is happening to the exclusion of geopolitical factors military or economic interests.

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