'...And in 1918, when leaders surveyed the corpse-laden poppy fields, they failed to draw the correct lessons. They again put short-term advantage over long-term prosperity—retreating from trade, trying to recreate the gold standard, and eschewing the mechanisms of peaceful cooperation. As John Maynard Keynes—one of the IMF’s founding fathers—wrote in response to the Versailles Treaty, the insistence on imposing financial ruin on Germany would eventually lead to disaster. He was entirely correct...'
https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2018/11/05/blog-when-history-rhymes
Mark Twain once said that “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.”
March 4, 1918 – A soldier at Camp Funston, Kansas falls sick with the first confirmed case of the Spanish flu.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_in_the_United_States
April 30, 1919 – Several bombs are intercepted in the first wave of the 1919 United States anarchist bombings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_in_the_United_States
January 19, 2020 - First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the United States
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191
January 6, 2021 - Pipe bombs were found at the offices of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee, and Molotov cocktails were discovered in a vehicle near the Capitol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol
More history rhymes:
1934: Hitler Consolidates Power
1935: FDR Launches New Deal
1936: Owens Flouts Nazis
1937: UAW Changes Car Industry
1938: Anti-Semitism Surges
1939: World War II Starts
• Location: Westerplatte, Poland
'...Under the cover of predawn darkness, a German battleship floats quietly into the center of Danzig Harbor and opens fire on a Polish stronghold in Westerplatte, the first shots of World War II. In the following weeks, Nazi forces, including 2,000 tanks and 1,000 aircraft, would shatter Polish defenses and surround Warsaw, which surrenders 26 days after the Danzig Harbor attack...'
2016: Trump Elected
2017: Hurricane Triple Whammy
2018: Wildfires
2019: Hong Kong Protests
2020: COVID-19
2021: The Taliban Return to Power
2022: Russia invades Ukraine
• Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
'...On 24 February 2022, Russia began a military invasion of Ukraine,[33] in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict that began in 2014. It is the largest military conflict in Europe since World War II.[34][35][36] With over 3,100,000 Ukrainians fleeing the country, the invasion has also caused the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.[37][38][39]...'
