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Art9681 | 1 month ago

The world wasn't globalized then. It's quite literally, an entire new world today. The collapse of the US will touch every corner of the world.

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overfeed|1 month ago

> The world wasn't globalized then

This may be recency bias. The current age just has more immediate, global communications. "The sun never sets on the British empire" had a literal meaning based on how globalized it was then. They even laid intercontinental undersea cables.