Ukraine Thoughts And Links

Published: March 12, 2022, 12:35 p.m.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ukraine-thoughts-and-links?s=r

Disclaimer: I am not an expert in international relations or military strategy, which is fine. In democracies, it\u2019s normal and correct for ordinary citizens to have opinions on important world issues, and demands that they not do so are ahistorical and dangerous. Still, take anything I say with a grain of salt.

1: This isn\u2019t \u201chistory restarting\u201d . . . yet

Whatever Francis Fukuyama meant by \u201cthe end of history\u201d, it probably wasn\u2019t \u201cnothing will ever happen\u201d.

But that\u2019s how it\u2019s been interpreted, so fine. Maybe nothing will ever happen. I don\u2019t think the Ukraine War is necessarily a counterexample. Fukuyama wrote in 1992, so he knew that eg the Gulf War could happen. Is this conflict bigger than the Gulf War?