Fiona Hill

I mean, I don't know if it's successful, but, you know, kind of, I mean, there was a solution found that, you know, some people are promoting, you know, in this case as well, of a sort of division and, you know, the DMZ and, you know, one side over the other and, you know, kind of perpetuating a division, which...

I think it's particularly successful.

But if you think about World War I and World War II, the United States came in, you know, under some very specific sets of circumstances.

In World War I, they did kind of come in to help, you know, kind of liberate parts of Europe, France, and, you know, kind of assist the UK and, you know, everything else, Great Britain in the war towards the end of it.

World War II, you know, there was that whole debate about whether the United States should even be part of the war.

I mean, we know it wasn't fought to overturn the Holocaust and all of the kind of things you kind of wish it had been fought for.

But it was because of Pearl Harbor and the Japanese pulling in.

But ultimately, it was easy to explain why you were there, particularly after Pearl Harbor and what had happened.

It was harder to explain Vietnam and Korea and many of the other ones.

And that's kind of going to be a problem for Putin.

That's why there is a problem for Putin.

All of his explanations...

being questioned, you know, sort of off on NATO or this or that or the other.

And, you know, kind of liberating, you know, Ukraine from Nazis or, you know, kind of basically stopping the persecution of Russian speakers.

And all of this has now got lost in just this horrific destruction.

And that's what happened in Vietnam as well.

that became, you know, a great degradation of the Russian military with atrocities and people wondering why on earth the United States was in Vietnam.

I mean, that kind of happened in Britain in the colonial, you know, kind of period as well.

Why was the United Kingdom doing, you know, committing atrocities and, you know, kind of basically fighting these colonial wars?

Northern Ireland, why was the United Kingdom still, you know, kind of militarily occupying