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Jake Peterson's avatar

While I enjoyed the post, haven't you said before that Brands's 4th Law is "Sooner or later, countries get the foreign policies they can afford"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za_EnmO5xbc&t=5s&ab_channel=hwbrands

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Bob Baumgartner's avatar

Well said. My feeling is that given the times we are currently living through, the historians of the future will look at those closer than appear issues that have surfaced and point out your 4th law as it is. But what do you think as someone who has studied American history as extensively as you have, of even further heading down the line as to street names? Most major cities I have spent any amount of time in, Austin included, have a Martin Luther King named street. Are street names just as representative of historical impact as cities or counties?

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