167 days remain till the American people make an awfully important decision.

It's May 22nd, this is the warning.

A few minutes before midnight, on December 31st, 1999,

from the Lincoln Memorial, President William Jefferson Clinton spoke the concluding words of the 20th century

from an American president's mouth. They were optimistic. They were full of hope. Let's listen to the last

two paragraphs of that speech.

Now, we're just moments from that new millennium.

Two centuries ago, as the framers were crafting our Constitution,

Benjamin Franklin was often seen in Independence Hall,

looking at a painting of the sun low on the horizon.

When at long last the Constitution finally was signed, Mr. Franklin said,

I have often wondered whether that sun was rising or setting. Today I have the happiness to know it is a rising sun.

Well, two centuries later, we know the sun will always rise on America

as long as each new generation lights the fire of freedom.

Our children are ready.

So again, the torch is passed to a new century of young Americans.

This vision of President Clinton's did not come to pass.

The world we live in, according to one of the preeminent scholars on totalitarianism and

20th century fascism, stands at an hour that on the clock, according to Dr. Timothy Snyder, is 1938.

The Ukrainian army is exhausted and is battered. Russians are advancing.

There are stories in the United States press about Rudy Giuliani urinating during a court hearing, but not about the dire

conditions at the Ukrainian front, where the losses are as a direct result of the perfidy

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