>I bet the Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand probably didn't
>even make front page headlines at the time.

it definitely did.

>We had been sending "advisors" for years to Vietnam for years
>before it grew into America's greatest military defeat.

that just a shitty america-centric narrative and moving goalposts though. we were fucking up in korea when we were sending advisors, and france had already been embarrassed in vietnam.

>Shit even with this Russian investigation, a lot of these
>stories aren't new stories. So many things have popped up and
>died down and the full significance wasn't known at the time
>(e.g., Hillary Clinton called Trump a Russian Puppet all the
>way back in the presidential debates).
>
>My point is that the shit that will probably wipe us out won't
>even make headlines when it first starts being noticed, like
>this story.
>

i think there's a difference between disinformation/apathy and something not being noticed.

you're trying to spin "big things start small" into way more of a point than is merited.