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History is a bit like maths. The deeper you get the weirder it becomes.
- gumby 3y agoThe actual quote was better but too long: “History is a bit like maths. The deeper you get the weirder it actually becomes. And more beautiful.”
- wsc981 3y ago> It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds? - Norm MacDonald
- defrost 3y agoHistorian Tim Snyder https://archive.li/IV4Xt https://archive.li/IV4Xt The Yale professor on why the west got Putin wrong — and what the past tells us about the war in Ukraine “The war in Ukraine is horrible, but the fact that Russia wasn’t appeased is a sign that I’d like to think we have learnt something.” In other ways, however, Snyder laments western policymakers’ long and still tortured reading of Russia — a problem that beset Barack Obama, and still afflicts Germany and France. “Our misreading of Russia is deep. Very deep,” Snyder says.