i can't claim credit for that framing. That was jim wolsey, who was president bill clinton's first c i a director. When he gave his confirmation testimony in 19 93, john carey, who was later the secretary of state, said to him, look, it's the end of the cold war. We're in this post coal war environment. What do you see as the threat picture that the us? Will need to deal with? And he gave this extraordinarily prescient testimony and said, we've slain a large dragon talking about theso union, but now we find ourselves in a jungle full of snakes.

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