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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://graeber.social/users/DGI/statuses/114252904064811030">David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 06:08:10 JST</a><a href="https://graeber.social/@DGI" title="dgi@graeber.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/theme/gnusocialjp/default-avatar-stream.png" width="48" height="48" alt="David Graeber Institute" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">David Graeber Institute</a></section><article><p>From David Graeber's 2013 piece - A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4818149#notice-9438418">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-03-31T06:08:10+09:00" title="Monday, 31-Mar-2025 06:08:10 JST">about 21 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://graeber.social/@DGI/114252904064811030" rel="external" title="Sent from graeber.social via ActivityPub">graeber.social</a></span></span><a href="https://graeber.social/@DGI/114252904064811030">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4390704">One often hears that antiwar protests in the late 60s and early 
70s were ultimately failures, since they did not appreciably 
speed up the U.S. withdrawal from Indochina. 
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But afterward, those controlling U.S. foreign policy were so 
anxious about being met with similar popular unrest that they 
refused to commit U.S. forces to any major ground conflict for 
almost 30 years. It took 9/11, an attack that led to 1,000s of 
civilian deaths on U.S. soil, to fully overcome the notorious 
“Vietnam syndrome” and even then, the war planners made 
an almost obsessive effort to ensure the wars were effectively 
protest-proof. 
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Propaganda was incessant, the media was brought on board, 
experts provided exact calculations on body bag counts, and the 
rules of engagement were carefully written to keep the count 
below that.
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1. One often hears that antiwar protests in the late 60s and early 70s were ultimately failures, since they did not appreciably speed up the U.S. withdrawal from Indochina. . But afterward, those controlling U.S. foreign policy were so anxious about being met with similar popular unrest that they refused to commit U.S. forces to any major ground conflict for almost 30 years. It took 9/11, an attack that led to 1,000s of civilian deaths on U.S. soil, to fully overcome the notorious “Vietnam syndrome” and even then, the war planners made an almost obsessive effort to ensure the wars were effectively protest-proof. . Propaganda was incessant, the media was brought on board, experts provided exact calculations on body bag counts, and the rules of engagement were carefully written to keep the count below that. . - David Graeber
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