Comment on 1955 was as old in 1990 as 1990 is in 2025.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoI’m sure someone will come along and point out that the 90s were no more or less peaceful than any other decade.
But it did seem like a time of hope. Collapse of USSR. End of Cold War. Feels like now we’re doing the same thing, just historians will come up with a new label for it.
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not to be that guy, but there was the whole Bosnian Genocide thing from 92-95 and the Gulf War from 90-91 that really legitimized the US practice of inference in the Middle East in the eyes of many US citizens. Up until then, most Americans still saw intervention a la the Iran Contra Affair as a negative.
Plus, the Troubles in North Ireland were still in pretty high gear until 1998, most of Africa was involved in civil wars and ethnic cleansing for a large chunk of the 90’s, and the collapse of the USSR, which was viewed as a positive in many parts of the world, did leave a power vacuum that resulted in numerous civil wars and separatist movements throughout eastern Europe and western Asia
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yugoslavia is actually a good example.
We bombed the peace into Serbia.