Which wars during the 1990s do you remember the most?

**Tooting Carmen** · 10-02-2021, 12:35 PM

Gulf War, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Georgia, Chechnya, Israel/Palestine, Turkey/Kurdistan, Guatemala, Colombia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Somalia, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, East Timor

Mitryejd · 10-02-2021, 12:45 PM

None.

**Creoda** · 10-02-2021, 01:14 PM

Bosnia indirectly, Kosovo, East Timor, and Operation Desert Fox in Iraq, and all of them vaguely. The 90s were conspicuous for the lack of proper conflicts, ie those that Westerners gave a shit about.

**Tooting Carmen** · 10-03-2021, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by Creoda

Bosnia indirectly, Kosovo, East Timor, and Operation Desert Fox in Iraq, and all of them vaguely. The 90s were conspicuous for the lack of proper conflicts, ie those that Westerners gave a shit about.

Are you kidding me? The 90's was a very conflict-ridden time, and I haven't even included quasi-civil wars in the poll such as Northern Ireland and the Basque Country.

**Creoda** · 10-03-2021, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen

Are you kidding me? The 90's was a very conflict-ridden time, and I haven't even included quasi-civil wars in the poll such as Northern Ireland and the Basque Country.

It was the end of history, the period between the fall of the USSR and September 11. Nothing important happened, nobody cares about some Africans chopping each other up as they have done forever, the same for the Balkans. The US had total hegemony. I remember the attitude being that all the proper wars are over and it was a new age, until 2001.

**Tooting Carmen** · 10-03-2021, 12:55 PM

Originally Posted by Creoda

It was the end of history, the period between the fall of the USSR and September 11. Nothing important happened, nobody cares about some Africans chopping each other up as they have done forever, the same for the Balkans. The US had total hegemony. I remember the attitude being that all the proper wars are over and it was a new age, until 2001.

The End of History was a bullshit and hubristic book by Japanese-American sociologist Francis Fukuyama, which looked at the world in very rigid binary terms.

**Creoda** · 10-03-2021, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen

The End of History was a bullshit and hubristic book by Japanese-American sociologist Francis Fukuyama, which looked at the world in very rigid binary terms.

My point was that it was the prevailing attitude, not that I believe it. Such conflicts were seen as aberrations in a cooling atmosphere, not as part of any global trend.