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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3209 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What happens now with greece? how will it affect globally and US economics

Speaking as a spectator of history:

In eighth grade, we went from "Ollie North on trial" to "Fall of the Berlin Wall."

In ninth and tenth grade Europe and Asia gained a couple dozen new countries.

In eleventh grade Soviet troops shelled the Kremlin and then, four months later, dissolved the USSR.

Shit moves quick. In 1998 the only magazine writing about the Taliban was Glamour. Three years later we're bombing them.