I think the wars were a major factor in the US rising above Europe in scientific achievement. Hopefully history will not repeat...
> This graph showing the number and percentage of research papers published in English / Non-English [1]
> Newton’s Principia Mathematica was written in Latin; Einstein’s first influential papers were written in German; Marie Curie’s work was published in French. Yet today, most scientific research around the world is published in a single language, English. [2]
> Since the middle of the last century, things have shifted in the global scientific community. English is now so prevalent that in some non-English speaking countries, like Germany, France, and Spain, English-language academic papers outnumber publications in the country’s own language several times over. In the Netherlands, one of the more extreme examples, this ratio is an astonishing 40 to 1. [2]
[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/4c61e2a0-f5fe-4851... [2] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/08/english-...
The American Empire will do anything to stay dominant.
In Poland the opposition won the 1989 election after the rules favoring the communist party loosened.
In Hungary the parliament (the very same communist one that was elected in 1985) voted ona law legalizing for freedom of association and a new electoral rule. The regime didn't change at all and the opposition only won the next election in 1990.
Romania underwent a violent revolution precipitated by the Timișoara uprising, with no U.S. connection.
Arguably the biggest U.S. involvement in a 1989 revolution was the U.S. embassy briefly negotiating with the Czechoslovakian regime after a number of American journalists were beaten by state security in the early days of the Velvet Revolution [1]. Not exactly CIA-regime-change level stuff.
Claiming significant brain drain / emigration to the US after 1989 is also a blatant falsehood. Even the population of Polish-born Americans (the most likely Eastern European group to emigrate to the U.S.) decreased through 1989-1995. The only country of origin that increased its share at the time was the Soviet Union, a country that did not undergo regime change in 1989 (and suggesting that the US somehow changed the Soviet regime in 1992 would be truly hilarious). Czech and Hungarian emigration numbers decreased immrdiately after 1989, and a whole lot of educated Eastern European citizens who were forced to leave after 1956/1968 were finally able to return to their homelands, in many cases bringing their First World educated families with them.