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timgonch@yahoo.com's avatar

I suspect that upon close analysis, most major historical events would turn out to be a polycrisis. Weather turns bad, crops fail, hunger increases, social divisions intensify and a revolution breaks out. Variations on this happen over and over, but we usually choose a simplified version for easier digestion.

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Roger Tauss's avatar

For the most part I agree but I feel you have omitted one critical set of actors -- multinational corporations. I think one could argue that for the half century or so after World War II, MNC's were the principal actors and nation states/superpowers were largely facilitators. I think part of what is driving the identity crisis of powerful states is the extent to which their raison d'être has been usurped by MNC's and part of the escalation is in opposition these actors.

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