hundreds of years. now, a lot of that is frayed in the last couple of years or so. and putin, you know, the general mattis story you just had on, about the russians continuing to try to spy or influence our elections, is so outrageous, but there was a time when it looked like it would be, at the end of the cold war, whether we would sort of grab up a lot of property, whether we would keep germany divided, the germans wanted to unite but they didn t know whether they would have america s support, he first of all, as colin powell said, insisted that we not dance on the graves of the soviets, but he also worked very hard to integrate and reunite germany, a peaceful germany. that was a huge contribution when you consider that germany had gotten us into two world wars. over the course of the 20th century. and put, and solving the german issue, to ensure that they had a peaceful democratic future, was i think, an underappreciated but