 we're just as strong as we ever were, or we're in our moment, we're the United States, or we're Carthage, or we're ancient Thebes, or we're Constantinople, the bulwark of Christendom in the East, and this will not happen to us. And they had no idea that people they were dealing with or the fact that allies are fickle and don't help people who were perceived to be weak. So I found it very chillingly contemporary.