United States, because I've been to Washington.

the united states you don't know the culture you don't know the civilization the value systems the nature of of our national identity and the rest notice how irrelevant universities have become in this fight our universities because we kill area studies as a pathway to tenure in american universities during the cold war you could become a tenured professor we had a a strain called Soviet East European Studies, which meant you spoke one or two languages from the region.

You actually traveled in the Soviet bloc.

You learned about the history, the culture.

So if some idiot at the State Department would say, sir, we're going to do this in Bulgaria and then this in Bulgaria and democracy will come in Bulgaria.

There was always somebody in this room who said, sir, very fascinating, ain't going to happen.

Let me tell you how things work in Bulgaria.

Why do I care what happens on the eastern flank of Europe?