LogFAQs > #946280446

Technically, the fall of the USSR was within my lifetime, but I was like 2.5 years old at the time and didn't really care. I'd call that a bigger deal. In terms of stuff I can remember, though, I think Covid's the most significant event. Citing 9/11 as a single, significant event kind of ignores that it was was really just one incident in the ongoing tensions between the Middle East and the west, which have been brewing pretty much since the Ottoman Empire fell. The subsequent "War on Terror" and ostensibly-unrelated war in Iraq were similarly just continued efforts to stabilize a very unstable region. 9/11 certainly wasn't trivial, and the social fallout (namely Islamophobic discrimination) can't be understated, but it alone did not directly cause the changes in the Middle East's political climate that followed it.

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