What would your version of a more optimistic or even utopian 90s be like?

Mine would have scientists successfully bringing Dinosaurs back and a deployment of US ground forces to Rwanda as well as a more advanced space program. Kinder Eggs would be legal.

Moral crusaders like Jack Thompson and Tipper Gore wouldn't gain much ground in the culture wars.

America would be committed to spreading its ideals and reducing poverty throughout the world.

What would your version of an alternate 90s either utopian or dystopian be like?

Would a surviving USSR or Brotherhood of Nod type terrorist organization spice up my timeline?
 
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Tovarich

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Kinder Eggs would be legal.

They're legal here, but would I eat one?

Through my cold, dead lips!

(You can have that quote, America. Keep up the good work!)



America would be committed to spreading its ideals and reducing poverty throughout the world.

My emphasis added because OTL there's a bit of a contradiction there, when said 'ideals' mean already poverty-stricken nations hocking their population to the IMF for generations to come.
(And yes, Europe has been just as bad there, worse sometimes, including my own UK).

As you wrote it though, that would be a truly wonderful thing.



I don't know how to get a Utopian '90s without a POD way before then, but specific '90s events which could improve things a lot with butterflies could include Clinton's deciding not to bomb that Khartoum pharmaceutical plant after all.
 
Full success for the African Union ? (I don't mean federalist fusion but just everyone respecting it) that would help greatly against poverty and lack of stability in Africa, if they are able to organize sanitary mesures against epidemics it's even better ! (It would basically be a small sized UN)

French animation not being a commercial failure to have more cultural diversity on screen. (I know it sounds dumb, but it would make the everyday life more diverse for children, that would be cool)

Serbian government accepts to end Yugoslavia after less then 10 years of war. Maybe having some kind of Yugoslavian Summit to keep making thinks that used to work working.

European powers and their ex-colonies have a serious, friendly talk. During this talk, they admit what was horrible and what was successfull, and ends the toxic relationship to start a new one.

AIDS is contained by most of people respecting safe sex methods.

Protocol of Kyoto has legal sanctions against countries that don't follow them.


Those are just ideas of how 90's could have gone better around the world, I have no ideas about PODs, those are mostly PODs that would require more consciousness from it's humans. If you are realy interested in idealized 90's you can check Vaporwave and A E S T H E T I C
 
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