Now if only we could have gotten Thatcher, Reagan, and Pinochet in a room together in 1978 at the latest, preferably 72, that would've been a magnificent place for a bomb!

[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

would be a very interesting alt history for sure. might have made the cold war go on longer, depending on the reactions to whomever pulled it off.

Personally, though, I'd prefer Pinochet get dumped from an aircraft at high altitude so he has time to reflect.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

might have made the cold war go on longer

The cold war never ended. It just became multipolar and (mostly) less overt.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Seriously. With the US and Russia fighting a proxy war in Ukraine for the better part of 2 years now, and Russia threatening a nuclear option that the US would respond to in kind, this is basically still the Cold War. The only thing that happened was a 22-year pause in hostilities between the fall of the USSR in 1991 and Euromaidan in 2013. Now we're back exactly as we were.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

I hate to think this way but it would be grand. Environmentalism was pretty big before the deregulation and greed is good 80's.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cool if you want to trigger WW3 I guess

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thatcher and Reagan got in power in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and Pinochet in 73. The whole point of the timing was to do it BEFORE they became part of the world's politics. Nobody's starting WW3 over a governor, an MP and a general from 3 different countries, only two of which are even friendly with each other.