“Existential threat” to the US is fascinating marketing lingo, and so open-ended as to be meaningless. Polities continued to exist post-Stalin, Mao, Castro, whoever. Greece survived after Alexander. The Timurids hung on post-Taimur.
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Economic fortunes and conditions of life rise and fall, but the one true existential threat to a nation/culture/whatever was realized during the “Columbian Exchange” of infectious diseases
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You can stamp them out, but cultural fragments / survivals remain. The Ottomans were hardly monolithic, more a welter of accumulated ethnoreligious groupings and cultural traditions. Then they rolled out the “cage,” an idea I’d like to implement for our leadership
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Uighur culture is probably facing an existential crisis of some sort right now
7:31 PM - 2 Mar 2020
from Pittsburgh, PA
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