I’ve made this comment in print about one book and I’m soon going to make it about another out loud: I find it strange to encounter histories of the 20th century…
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That could be an interesting conclusion to argue for but as an unargued-for historiographical assumption it's something different. Also, US military spending fell by *half* as a % of GDP from the late 80s to the late 90s.
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Fair enough there was a decline in 1990s. But I'd insist fact that current spending is in ballpark with Cold War era shapes how we understand the past: that the project of USA hegemony over global south was far more important than ideological contest with USSR.
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I don’t agree but would love to see that in an arguments *that actually takes the USSR and communism seriously*. (I think it would be closer if you took both communism and anti-communism from a colonialist lens not just omit one).
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