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Putin, Trump, and Hamas, in their respective ways, have proven the infinite pliability of the Overton Window (the border of what's considered "beyond the pale"). Repercussions will ripple for millennia.

ONE hit like this of a supermarket in France, Spain or Germany would send shockwaves through the Western world and would be immediately called one of the biggest terrorist attacks of all time.
But this is Ukraine, and it’s just regular Saturday.
It’s not even called terrorism. https://t.co/VB0RpzumEB

— Gryn ✌ (@gryn_a) May 25, 2024

Land grabs, populist nationalist personality cults, and terrorism are nothing new, of course, but the potential for normalization is freshly revealed. We've long known about the Boiling Frog, but now we've seen entire societies resign their concept of normality in the face of shameless and methodical cauldron owners.