Sarah Paine

And the Chinese came around to that idea.

However, the Russians had red lines.

And here's Anatoly Kovalev again, the deputy foreign ministry.

The red line is American troops stay out of Iraq.

No regime change in Iraq.

You do that and you will tank termination of the Cold War.

And that would be the goal.

Here's Kovalev saying, I advance the basic principle that we must support the territorial integrity of Iraq.

This was our sacred position.

But we must not permit a division of Iraq.

So if you wonder why the ground war ended after 100 hours, this is it.

That the big thing out there is war termination of the Cold War.

That's the big thing.

Saddam Hussein is a minor event over there.

Sorry, but he was.

Anyway.

And if it had tanked Cold War termination or upset the reunification of Germany, France and Britain might have been very happy because François Mitterrand, who is the president of France, and Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of Britain, were against German unification.

They knew it would marginalize Germany.

their own country.

Germany's going to be a bigger economy, which it is.