Michael Malice

It's utopian to think this is going anywhere, maybe in 100 years.

Look, there's a reason Chekhov was on Star Trek, because the idea is even in the far future, you're gonna have America and you're gonna have the Soviet Union.

Like, this is the reality.

It was called realpolitik.

We're going to have detente because it's, you know, it's this permanent stalemate.

We had the Vietnam War.

We got our asses kicked.

Russia's not going anywhere.

America's not going anywhere.

We got to learn to live with each other, blah, blah, blah.

And Reagan said, you don't want to hear my strategy for the Cold War.

Some people might say it's simple or even simplistic.

Here it is.

We win, they lose.

And the people who won were the Russian people and the Ukrainian people and the Lithuanian people and the Polish people and the Romanian people especially, and the Hungarian people.

And it's just, there's so many moments of great joy

That, you know, just tears coming down my face because you're like in Prague when Dubček, again, who tried to liberalize in 1968, and then when they send the tanks, they deport him to Slovakia somewhere to do some forestry job.

Like he appears in their big squares just waving from the balcony like this ghost.

from 20 years prior being like, look, you know, the spirit of 68 is still alive here in Czechoslovakia.

And it was like a matter of weeks, the entire government resigned and then they liberalized.