creating enormous problems for us now in the Pacific. So we stopped doing that. But we basically continued fully trading with them through the 1990s and 2000s, ignoring the fact that this is a country that had no intention of liberalizing, had no intention of really tamping down its anti-Americanism, which was latent, but always there. And, you know, I write in the book that we also got the start of the Cold War one wrong because, you know, many people think it started sort of in 1945, right as the Second World War ended, or, you know, 1946, with the famous speech by Churchill in Fulton, Missouri, talking about an iron curtain that has descended on Eastern Europe. And as I write in the book, I actually think that's wrong. I think the first Cold War began in 1920 as the first hot war between the United States and Russia ended. A lot of Americans don't know this or have forgotten, but we actually fought a war with Russia where we sent American troops to the end of the First World War (15/57)
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