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also wrote The Lessons of History, very brief,

100-page book, uh, in which he said, well, history

proves that unfortunately, and unhappily, uh,

Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan.

Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough,

powerful enough, evil will overcome good. Aggression

will overcome moderation. So you have no choice.

If you look at the world as it is today, you

have to be blind not to see that the democracies,

led by the United States, have to reassert their

will to defend themselves and to oppose their

enemies in time, while there's still time, before

the jarring gong of danger wakes them up and

wakes them up too late. This is where we are

now. The fact that people don't see that, the

fact that a lot of the news media are harping

on uh, a lot of fake news, but also a lot of...

a lot of shortsightedness, and do not see the

historic period and the historic struggle that

we are in, engaged in now, doesn't obviate these

truths.