this sounds a bit academic, but I argued that this shooting down is almost the perfect counter point to the assassination in Sarajevo in 1914, as a kind of end of the political 20th century, and of an "aspirational multilateralism". The piece is here https://www.lettre.de/beitrag/gutbrod-hans_wie-die-wuerfel-fallen, need to get that published in English somehow...
this sounds a bit academic, but I argued that this shooting down is almost the perfect counter point to the assassination in Sarajevo in 1914, as a kind of end of the political 20th century, and of an "aspirational multilateralism". The piece is here https://www.lettre.de/beitrag/gutbrod-hans_wie-die-wuerfel-fallen, need to get that published in English somehow...