I am just going to take a minute to point out that 18 months ago I said the inflation wasn't transitory, it was long term, and everyone told me I was crazy when I said the government was lying about it being transitory.
If a different 9/11 had happened - say the perpetrators were Russian - I would agree that a similarly large change in society would have occurred. We probably would have done the same crap with the TSA. However, it’s less likely that the US would have invaded Afghanistan, and possibly Iraq (because every hypothetical is less likely than the 100% probability we have now).
Just because something else would have happened doesn’t mean the response would be anywhere near similar.
Inflation in Germany stayed <5% since the beginning of the 90s, most of the time <2% for 30 years (should be even smaller because Germany doesn't use chained dollars), then spiked to 10% with the invasion of Ukraine.
So it's not clear what you have been referring to.