Annie Jacobsen

Well, I think what you're also pointing out is very important.

point about what the president and let's call him POTUS, what a POTUS wants to do, what they have the power to do, which is mostly the answer is everything, in my opinion, understanding.

And then what happens, the events that happen and then how the public perception then moves the rudder on on what happens moving forward.

And

So the closest analogy I could make to this presidential, this president's term is like if you look back at the Eisenhower administration after.

Right.

Everything was happening in secret.

And this and I say to say this because this is when like Greenland became this key focal point in the nuclear threat from the Soviet Union.

But have.

Everything that Eisenhower did was done in secret.

There were no conversations between him and someone like yourself, like a president.

It was he and his advisors, his special group, that's always what they're called, deciding the fate of the world, in essence, or deciding what we would do, we being the United States.

And so and then the world would see the results of that a decade later.

Yes.

And then there also is now this new sort of pressure on what happens in the present tense, which is based on public opinion, which exists in the 1950s.

It simply didn't exist.

People were just way behind the curve.

And now you're.

about a daily dose of opinion from billions of people around the world, which does impact not only the president's opinion of what he might do, but what others do, what Europe does, what China does.

And so