Fiona Hill

And of course, these parallels had to be very careful because, you know, they're not neat.

But there was kind of like an idea in there.

And how do you sort of treat this?

How do you deal with this?

And we did come up with all kinds of ideas and things that are still out there.

We've created institutions that have helped to keep the peace.

We just have neglected them, allowed them to degrade, just like the United Nations.

And we've created problems inside of them, like the veto power of the permanent powers on the

UN Security Council.

But we can change that.

You've just got to have a will.

And I do think out there, there are sufficient people with a will.

And we've just got to get people mobilized.

I mean, I'm always amazed by how people can mobilize themselves around a crisis.

Remember Winston Churchill, I don't quote all the time because I can never remember half his quotes.

But I do remember the one about never let a good crisis go to waste.

And I always think that, you know, yeah, we shouldn't let this crisis go to waste.

And something else can come out of this, just like in Ukraine.

We worried before about corruption in Ukraine, the influence of the oligarchs.

We've got our own oligarchs here in the US we need to deal with as well.