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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I respect you Jeet but disagree vehemently with every single assertion in your tweet.
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It's a controversial point! But I think a case can be made for it and it's an idea that one can see bubbling around in recentish scholarship.
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But even the discussion of that project is inflected with American exceptionalism. For every Suharto there is a Mengistu, for every Pinochet there is a Hafizullah Amin but the latter are ignored. The Soviets were as intent on dominating the global South as the Americans.
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Oh, I agree Soviets (and to a lesser extent Chinese) had ambitions in global South. But I think they were far less effective in that arena and had a lesser reach.
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This is US military spending as % of GDP over last 70 yrs. One can argue whether GOT bump was going to happen anyway or it was just a response to events.pic.twitter.com/wdWD8XEtln
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