about why you think Berlin is a good analogy for what the United States could be facing in the event of a Chinese uncontested invasion of Taiwan. So this is remarkable, right? And during the Cold War history, people focused so much on Cuban Missile Crisis, and it was certainly an incredibly dangerous time, but it was just 13 days in that fateful October of 1962. And what people often forget is the West Berlin crisis that occurred a year earlier in 1961. It occurred right after the meeting between Kennedy and Hushoff, where Kennedy came away convinced that Hushoff was going to invade West Berlin, right? Hushoff was threatening at the time. And Kennedy made the fateful decision that this was going to be an existential issue for the United States. He went on television at the time in that summer and basically told Americans that we are going to fight for West Berlin, this outpost of freedom and democracy surrounded by East Germany and Soviet troops, right? Really, really difficult place (50/57)
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