09.01.2001 -

Retrospectively, this date is often viewed with a sense of lost innocence.

: International focus was largely on consolidating the end of the Cold War and managing internal domestic issues in the U.S. and Russia, unaware of the imminent shift toward the Global War on Terror. 09.01.2001

💡 : September 1, 2001, was the quiet before the storm—a day of routine technical updates and standard diplomatic maneuvering that would be fundamentally altered in less than two weeks. Orders 2001 | CRTC Retrospectively, this date is often viewed with a