Marc Trachtenberg

And I'll flag two other sort of specific empirical things where I think our understanding has changed, but that it's still relevant, but probably not one-for-one relevant.

So we kinda now understand, um, in large part to the works of people like Mark Trachtenberg, who I've turn-- learned a ton from, the nature of the status quo in the, in the Cold War changed in really important ways.

So we had all these Berlin crises, and then ultimately the Cuban Missile Crisis because we did not have a really agreed-to status quo in Europe from the end of World War II till, you know, the 1960s.

And then after the Cuban Missile Crisis, through a series of negotiations and tacit understandings, w-we kinda...

Um, does that then, the Berlin analogy apply directly and one-for-one to f- something like Taiwan? No.

But Taiwan's status in the status quo and whether both sides agree to it or not or their understandings of the status quo are changing, blah, blah, blah, I think that travels very well.

The, uh, sort of what Mark Trachtenberg would call a historical sensibility about the status quo travels.

It doesn't travel one-for-one.