06-14-2016, 11:35 AM
It makes sense. The Italo-Abyssinian War was an Awakening-Era war for Italy (the unification of Italy in the late-middle novecento being a Crisis era analogous to the American Revolution, with parts of Italy toppling Austrian rule) and a Crisis-era war for Ethiopia. The Sahelian famine, Eritrean secession, and the overthrow of the Ethiopian monarchy with the rise of Haile Mengistu, who made Benito Mussolini look like a humane and benevolent overlord by contrast, comprise a truly nasty 4T analogous to the Russian Revolution, Civil War, and Stalinist madness. Can a Crisis last 30 years? Sure -- in Russia between 1916 (catastrophic defeats of Tsarist armies and political collapse) and 1945 (end of the Great Patriotic War), and apparently in Ethiopia.
Few countries do wars well in Awakening Eras (think of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, and the Italian part of the Italo-Abyssinian War).
Few countries do wars well in Awakening Eras (think of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, and the Italian part of the Italo-Abyssinian War).
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
