Chair, thank you very much.
I'll start with a fairly broad question to Mr. Rasiulis, and perhaps I'll have time for some more detailed follow-up ones.
I was born in Cold War Berlin. I recall very vividly having to cross multiple checkpoints to visit family. I was a very young child at the time. My father was a child in Berlin during the 1948 airlift. He recalls the American relief pilots who were dropping chocolates and raisins in little parachutes to kids who were picking them out of trees. I had a very sharply defined vision of east versus west.
If we fast forward to 1989-91, there was at least a flicker over some time of not east versus west, but east and west. I'm wondering if I can invite you to speculate, with the benefit of hindsight, what went wrong.
We're now in 2022 and I think, without putting words into Mr. Colby's mouth, he described the current scenario as a foreign policy disaster. What could we have done differently? If there are one or two big foreign policy questions that could have been settled differently between, let's say, 1970 and 2007, what would they be?