today happens to be the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, which

ended the Vietnam War.

And we couldn't think of anyone better to have on to talk about that than somebody that is

gracing me with his presence on my podcast and going through a Cold War series right now.

So how you don't know?

I'm doing well.

Thank you.

Well, I appreciate you inviting me.

Here's the first question I wanted to ask because I was writing questions on the last episode we did.

And I realized the episodes were for the end.

So did public opinion help in ending the war?

I mean, yeah, because the internal situation in any state, any modern state, I mean, whether you're talking about a nominal, you know, multi-party democracy,

I mean, the terms that that signifier was utilizing the Cold War,

or whether you're talking about, you know, the, the communist states, the Eastern

block, in a state, in a general mobilization, especially in any in any any any any policy ongoing policy

initiative or structure that directly affects the population um like public opinion is impactful on on

that policy you know no despite the kind of mythology of Democratic peace theory or whatever,

there are not states that exist that are just totally at odds of the body politic.

Not any government in existence, nor has there been in the modern era that just has absolutely

no mandate. You know, it's completely immune to public opinion. There's not anything to work.

But what I was saying a moment ago, and I'm going some more with this, it's not just like a single old guy tangent. I'm listening to Michael Savage, and he's got Colonel McGregor on. I know that people don't, I know some people are that I don't like McGregor either. That's not the point. Savage kept on talking about the Russians kind of foibles in Ukraine and saying,

this is like Vietnam when, you know, the Pentagon just wouldn't really fight the war.

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