american century.america has led by example. so who among us will set the example? which of our citizens will lead us in this next american century? everyone who steps today to get one addict off drugs to convince one troubled teenager not to give up on life to comfort one aids patient, to help one hungry child. we have within our reach the promise of a renewed america we can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves. a shining purpose. the illumination of a thousand points of light. and it is expressed by all who know the era's mystical force of a child's hand of a friend who stands by you and stays there. a volunteer's, generous, an idea that is simply right. the problems us may be different, but the key to solving remains the same. it is the individual. the individual steps forward and the state of our union is the union of each of us. one to the other, the sum of our friendships, marriages, families and communities. we all have something to give. so if you know how to re

my new book that just came out last month, it's called half american the epic story of african-americans fighting water to at home and abroad. i'd like to start with what led me to the project. so my last book project was african-american newspapers, so i was going through historic newspapers like the chicago defender, pittsburgh courier and. one thing that struck me is when you look at the papers from the war years, you come across images like these this is from the minneapolis spokesman, which is the largest and longest running black in minnesota, where i'm from. these pictures are the kind of things i'd never really seen before. i'm a historian of taught history of over to african history more than a decade. but these kind of everyday photos of the black men and women, more than a million who volunteered were drafted. the military seeing these everyday average photos. it really blew me away. it made me curious because i came across first dozens of these and eventually hundreds. i started to wonder what more could be there? what more do we know about the black perspective on world war

staple of american culture and of american jewish political culture. in the words of my colleague david meyers, a distinguished professor of history at ucla, we are not one offers a sweeping and definitive account of how america has thought and talked about israel over the last 75 years. i applies is formidable talents to one of the trickiest of subjects, and the result is a book that strikes an impossible balance massively knowledgeable, readable, fair minded and hard headed, both novice and will derive great benefits from this deeply engrossing book. i highly recommend it. i'm delighted to introduce our speaker today. eric alterman is a distinguished professor at brooklyn college, the city university of new york. he has a ph.d. in history from, stanford university with a minor jewish studies. he's written. 11 previous books include, the new york times bestseller what liberal media the truth about bias the news, an award winning and historian he was for 25 years. the media columnist for the nation, in addition to having been a columnist at different t

american printers couldn't really keep up with the speed of news arriving while americans in the 17th century often sort of complained that they were bored out of their minds, waiting for news to arrive from europe by the late 18th century. americans faced, if anything, an excess of news that forced newspaper printers to choose between many possible sources and when is an excess of information. as there was in the late 18th century, decisions about what information to share and what's to ignore inevitably became political. what news is significant? what news is most likely to be true? people could not agree on this. and so these decisions, you know, what was accepted, what was sort of tossed aside, those are in some ways the decisions i want to talk to you about tonight. and while my book actually stretches from the early 18th century into the early 19th century, i want to focus tonight on the 1760s. in the 1770s, the era when american colonists first started to question their long standing imperial attachments and began to cook up what would become the american revolution. thinking a

interpret the american revolution in the american revolution, of course is an iconic moment in american. it's the founding moment, right? it is also key element of what we might call historical, which is not the same thing in, of course, historical mythology is by history and is based on history, but it is instead it consists of the stories that we tell ourselves about we came to be and about what's special about us and what our place in the world is, what our in the future is in american historical mythology, focuses especially some key elements and in the american story, but very often the parts from i, you might say, a factual interpretation of actually happens and what the american we see this again and again mean. the whole reason that i wrote a book that i wrote on bunker hill a few years ago, the whites of their eyes was because bunker hill had become a rather our story about bunker had become distorted because the distorted version fit better into the stories that we tell about ourselves. but this also influenced is the the the history of military technology where comes to ameri

from brown university, and he'll be discussing most recent book, half american the epic story of african-americans fighting in world war two at home and abroad. now to, join this this conversation this discussion is dr. marcus cox marcus is a fellow with the jenny craig institute. and is also currently the dean of fayetteville state university right outside beautiful fort north carolina. oh the. previously many of you know him from town here where he's associate dean of graduate studies xavier and a graduate ph.d. from northwestern an and an expert on african-american military history. and so it's great to have these two amazing scholars and comrades on the stage with us today. and with that, marcus, i'll turn it over to you. and sir, you much. thank you so much. thank you everybody for being here. thank you, mike. and everyone, this is a great opportunity to learn a little bit more about what's happening in the united states and in particular what african-americans. i'm honored and very privileged to be up here with dr. matthew delmont. matt is going to start off and do a brief overview of his, a

american dwight david and you're watching c-span's american history tv. and this is our special series on speeches that define the presidency. we continue this week with a look at john kennedy. he was in the

my grandfather fought in world war one as an african american, 200,000 african american soldiers were in france in world war one and i still meet people who talk in fascination about the black troops of world war one. but that doesn't also mean that you have to disrespect your fellow citizen. my fear and the reason i wrote this book, i have watched their own words, i have watched their own policies, their ideologies, what they say in their little private chat forums, there are many of them who would loved to kill other americans in large numbers and create their own little constitutional autocracy, in which the constitution is a fig leaf and their autocracy controls other people. >> so a racial component to this. >> very racial. you know, donald trump promised his base essentially that the ballot for him gives you a permission slip to do whatever you want, to be as racist as you want. fundamentally. we're not going to deny this. my dad joined the navy when he was 15, he was allowed one job to be a mess cook, that's it. that's all that he was allowed. my grandfather was allowed to be a

and as we know from the recent collapses of the, of some american bank, you know, the american financial system is really cheering at the themes. and there are many countries that are diverse and quiet and divesting quietly from the american trade and financial system. and yet the vitamin administration just recently submitted to congress a record, brady, braking budget. i mean the record breaking for military expenditures. how do you understand that logic? because i think it defies common sense because the government still needs to finance the, the very modern social programs that exist in the united states. they still need to do that. why are they spending like crazy? this is an empire in decline and decay that is totally bound to one policy. they have the intellectual and political leadership shaped to only push for us dominance. not any sort of collaboration with any country in the world. they have a huge military machine that has to justify its existence every moment. and it is a policy and, and a system that is in real the k is no longer works. and we can see this in the failure of

well, it should be noted that since the spanish american war of 1899 1999 the americans. uh, they began to sort of create their own colonial empire. i can’t call it otherwise, because the result of this war was the occupation of the philippines by america by cuba and the gradual advancement in e latin america , which resulted in the actual transformation of puerto rico, haiti, by the dominican republic and others states, that means in uh, actually semi-independent, but actually colonies of the united states of america in fact deed. invasion of the bay of pigs how does it translate into russian? he pursued the goal of defeating the cuban revolution, which, as i remember, won on january 1 , 1959. and already in 1960, the us government , with president hauer in mind, began to plan aggression against revolutionary cuba in order to overthrow the revolutionary cuban government. for this, counter-ruling emigrants, who were trained in guatemala, were used first of all. in the united states, there were special camps on the territory of honduras for the training of mercenaries in t

but in lincoln's time there were some americans arguing for something new and improvement over the american founders. this was a rejection. what lincoln of what lincoln called the original idea of american independence? consider alexander stevens of georgia a former whig. collie a lincoln's during his sole term in congress in the late 1840s. as the vice president future vice president of the confederate states of america stevens argued that their constitution was a better one than the old one that lincoln was trying to save. steven said it was better. not simply because it protected slavery by mentioning it explicitly where the original constitution never even used the word. there were plenty of regimes throughout human history that condone slavery. but stevens argued that the confederacy was the first to base its slave society on white supremacy. there's your systemic racism. steven said that the american founders believed quote the enslavement of the african was in violation of the laws of nature. that it was wrong in principle socially morally politically. however he lauded the confedera

it's been an honor to serve with these brave americans that want to work for you, the american people, every single day. and don't forget that. thank you so much. i look forward for the next 100 days and god bless you. i will be followed by my esteemed colleague, laurel lee, from the great free state of florida. [applause] ms. lee: well, thank you, congressman hunt. it is great to be here today to celebrate 100 days of republicans' leadership in congress. before i came to congress, i was a prosecutor and a judge and i know firsthand how important it is for criminal penalties to reflect the seriousness of an offense and to ensure the safety of our communities. recently we've seen violent crime rates skyrocketing and law-abiding citizens are the victims. a result of democrats' extreme policies that protect violent criminals instead of the american people. now as a member of congress, i am so proud to join my republican colleagues in fighting to keep our nation safe and to support criminal justice policies that work. in this first 100 days, we passed legislation that will put a stop to d

of the americans. yes, poland this is probably the tool of the americans, but the further you go, the more polish logic. she's getting great. this is the logic of the americans, the polish logic is becoming the logic of creating a large territorial spatial system where they will be hegemons, not the americans in the opinion of their son, and not even the british. yes, because yes, of course, the poles have historical reverence for the british, but they clearly it’s between the seas that they begin to tailor it specifically for themselves, and even , by the way, notice there a very interesting one, so i read this message enough. it's funny that the main oil they start getting for the poles is not american oil freedom and shale deposits. they start buying trial shipments of saudi oil. they are starting to buy test batches of oil from other countries in the persian gulf. that is, they put these same germans on the american hydrocarbon hook, and they themselves really want to get off it. and this is very i

do something all americans -- all decent, kindhearted americans fundamentally support. extreme mega republics are trying to sensationalize an issue that does not really exist. not in the way they are portraying. if this is about elite sports competition, let's allow those involved in elite sports competition to do what they do and to debate the rules of engagement. many of them already have. the ncaa already has a policy as it relates to this issue. so does the track and field association. and many has left leg associations. what this is about again, extreme mega republicans doing everything possible to jam their white -- right-wing ideology down the throats of the american people. it is happening with banning books and now they want to bully kids transgender kids. more than 50% of transgender children have either contemplated suicide or attempted suicide. where is the decency on the other of the aisle that in the face of that dynamic, you want to bully trans kids? and create an issue because you think it is politically going to benefit you? i believe it will not. >> at

i am looking forward to american stories and american dreams that make my american dream pale in comparison to the next story of what is possible because we get it right. the good news is the american people -- we are just fine. it is the american government that we have to fix. you see, we get to live where you want to live, love who you want to love, and do what you want to do, but our government keeps telling us we are people. there are people on the radical left that want us to doubt the very look of a person. but the truth is every single generation we become a more perfect union. god has truly blessed the united states of america. let us be a blessing to the good lord and to each other. god bless you. thank you for having me. hope you have a really good night. thank you. thank you so much. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2023] >> president biden later on his trip commemorating the 25th anniversary of the good friday agre

all americans. it was for free, man. and for america. that they gave their all. they gave their lives themselves. and by that same question as a test for immigration, the congress proves ourselves worthy of those men and worthy of our own traditions. as a nation. so it is in that spirit that i declare this afternoon to the people of cuba that those who seek refuge here in america will find it. the dedication of america to our traditions as an asylum for the oppressed is going to be upheld. i have directed the departments of state and justice and health and education and welfare to immediately make all the necessary arrangements to permit those in cuba who seek freedom, to make an orderly entry into the united states of america. our first concern will be whether those cubans who have been separated from their children and their parents and their husbands and their wives and that are now in this country. our next concern is with those who are imprisoned for political reasons. and i will send to the co

however, with the arrival of the americans, that security ended before the american invasion. there was a kind of social equality between different levels of society. but after the american invasion, a corrupt class emerged rising above society. previously, iraqis were kind sociable, they showed brotherly feelings towards each other and generosity. but after the americans came, drugs began to spread. families began to disintegrate. social degradation began increasingly we began to hear about things alien to our society that a son killed his father or his family and all of this because of drugs. it didn't come out of nowhere suited by the americans are gone, but traces of the u. s. still remain in my country. they manifest themselves in the economic and social spheres and their ugliest forms. the people of these are have been denied justice house of the 8 indicted 6 or the charges dropped altogether while one was found not guilty. the only soldier to face caught merely los rank and had his salary reduced, leaving the victims loved ones angry. i remember they may have been women

my fellow americans. last night when i spoke with you about the fall of rome, i knew that moment the troops of the united states, our allies, were crossing the channel in another and operation. it has come to pass with success thus far and in this poignant hour i you to join with me prayer. almighty god. our sons. pride of our nation. this day, set upon the mighty endeavor. a struggle to preserve our public, our religion, and our civilization. and to set free a suffering humanity. lead them straight and cruel gives strength to their arms, to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith. they will need thy blessings, their will be long and hard for the enemy is strong. he may hold our forces. success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again. and we know that by thy grace and by the righteousness of our our sons will, triumph. they will be sought by night and by without rest until the victory is won. the darkness will be rent by noise and flame men's souls will be shaken with the v

nearly 100 americans rescued from the embassy. the navies of the seal team to confront the operation. helicopters .800 miles for overnight mission. president biden signing off of the information. heavy fighting between rival out.tary is evacuation played personnel are safe but 16,000 americans remain in sudan. what's been done to get them to safety. tonight, panic on passenger jets. an engine on fire after american airlines jet expenses bird strike bringing passengers to tears. the pilots declaring may day. second american islands jet catches fire right before takeoff. passengers frantically grabbing their belongings. with the airline essay tonight. severe weather threatens of white area texas including damaging winds and help for the start of the work week. plus, millions wake up to winter weather with recent warnings in the midwest. rob marciano times it all out for us. in the west, dramatic new video shows the moment to homes slide off of a cliff. a onetime retail giant files for bankruptcy, bed bath and beyond making plans to

in short, the americans.s has been done repeatedly dozens of times, including, er, how to say, moving these nuclear weapons closer and closer to the borders of our country. communism vodka bears of russia is such a gloomy dark place where bad people live with the help of hollywood the usa has been leading such a company against russians against slavs for 30 years . now it seems to me that the american society is sick and in this sense, i feel better in russia, i am constantly asked for a speech. why do you like russia why do you live there? by five or six email inquiries to me, please tell us states, and people in russia are the people who on our side today the task will be completed for 27 years . you need to go to some positions , sit in some trenches, wait for enemy sorties ; i don't know a single man who says this is not my war. who else are we getting? first of all, there is your brother, he is your co-server. news of the day for 40% of russian investors, in whose portfolios contain shares of sberbank th

it's time to get americans back to work. don't believe anyone who says our plans hurt american social safety net. a very joan russ nation and when people fall on tough times, we'll help them, that will not change. this is important, assistant programs are supposed to be temporary, a a bridge to independence, not a barrier. just as ronald reagan understood the importance of economic growth, we should welcome and celebrate the benefits of a strong, growing economy. with a strong growing economy, we will no longer be dependent upon china. we will no longer be victims to inflation and we can protect and preserve social security and medicare. my fellow americans, as we confront the consequences of president biden's extreme, reckless spending, congressional republicans are ready to act and to lead. that is the resolve of the house republican majority every single one of them. and that's an honor to be in new york. i love this time of year. it's the beginning of baseball season. we all know we are one of the most famous yankees, th

african-american visitors? it's a great question. i don't have any stories about that, but what i can speak to is that the there was a very real issue of color. in the white among the white house staff and so lincoln brought some people with him from springfield who were darker who had darker complexion and he brought them a cert to be servants in the white house. they'd been working for him in various ways in springfield and the lighter skinned white house staff was not open to working with them and so in some cases lincoln had to help find them employment elsewhere and found them employment in the treasury department. so there was a very real issue when it came to the white house staff, but i don't know how they responded to these visitors. right and part of it is a lot of what we know about the perspective of the white house staff comes from their children's recollections. so i there are survive. they're surviving testimony of the son of a waiter who worked at the white house that i was able to use their sur

i impulse to be well supported by the american public.— american public.an't american public. i think in general you can't always — american public. i think in general you can't always trust _ american public. i think in general you can't always trust the - american public. i think in general you can't always trust the polls. i you can't always trust the polls. the only ones you can really trust at the one in november 2024. d0 the only ones you can really trust at the one in november 2024. do you think that he — at the one in november 2024. do you think that he will — at the one in november 2024. do you think that he will be _ at the one in november 2024. do you think that he will be able _ at the one in november 2024. do you think that he will be able heal - at the one in november 2024. do you think that he will be able heal some l think that he will be able heal some of these divides in america? it is questionable whether he has made any progress on that front. if this approach is to marginalise, ostracise, stigmatise even supporters of trump, would that

for americans. president biden and chuck schumer are vowing to block it from moving any further. energy secretary rick perry responds but first president trump expected to voluntarily turn himself in in new york on tuesday after his indictment by manhattan da alvin bragg, supporters of the former president gathering outside of his home at mar-a-lago. joining me now florida congressman byron donalds, it was great to see you, i would get your reaction to what's happening right now. >> this is a tragedy for the country. you have a guy, alvin bragg who is taking some issue from seven years ago. i say issue because the sec told not to bring any charges or fines to the trump campaign, the primitive justice looked at this, they said there's nothing to see here. he's using a misdemeanor that is outside of statue of limitations to bring a felony on a federal charge outside of his jurisdiction, this is political persecution of donald trump, alvin bragg is doing the thing that the radical left has been wanting

the american is completely at ease, but the americans also see the rko on the radars, and even the flight image of this bird can be seen live in the iranian operation rooms. a few minutes later, arkio's connection with the kandahar center is cut off. the american is still confused. what is wrong with the bird of strategy? these images are being broadcast from iran and 70 are completely safe. the archio is safe and sound on the ground and under the control of the islamic revolutionary guard corps. it is amazing if iran has a nuclear bomb with the technology that can not only see or kill the most important spy bird in the world, but even sit safe on the ground. it happened once again for the americans. this time, one of the most advanced spy planes of the american regime fell into the trap of hezbollah's electronic warfare, and with god's grace, we were able to complete a very long task, one of the most advanced , with the joint help and joint action of the army and the irgc. america's most airplanes that have there are special features that trap the islamic republic of iran in fact. this p

, uh, america of an american, he says, these are north americans.ney. i’m there dollars, something there, it’s an american curse, so we don’t need these, we’ll give you ice cream, so, and so on in kenya in india, and this, of course, is deep, but the fact is that the russians russia although it. uh, in the prison of the people of the bolsheviks they called, well, on purpose, to bet on those who are now the balts and, e.g., in the baltic states in ukraine. to excite nationalism and bring down the russian empire, russians are perceived as people who respect the otherness of others, and this is true. so from time immemorial we have been from the retinue to the christian prince of kiev, in which, according to klyuchevsky, there was a whole international already, that we did not exist in western europe . a respected sign from others and we are not trying to humiliate them, the americans humiliated that's how much you just mentioned for these. here is a parrot brazil, they offended, insulted and humiliated, they showed that they consider themselves mentor

military into war zones to extract american citizens. we didn't do it in libya or syria or yemen and we didn't do it in ukraine afghanistan is a unique case involving the end of the 20 year work united states was involved in but americans should understand that we will do, go to great lengths to support and facilitate their departure from difficult circumstances but we will try to protect us as we possibly can but should not be brought expectation of massive military operation to seize an airport or otherwise evacuate people from country that has been the pattern over many years and the exception, not the rule for us to do something like that. >> early this money said right now to run for evacuation, should we take it to mean there is a willingness to conduct this evacuation? >> certainly a willingness to take steps to help americans get out of the country if those steps in a risk analysis included potentially facilitating civilian lights or anything else along those lines, the president asked for every suitable option to be able to help

the american people. to achieve these great national objectives, to win the war protect the homeland and revitalize our economy. our budget will run a deficit that will be small and short so long as congress restrain spending and acts in a fiscally responsible manner. we have clear priorities and we must act at home with the same purpose and resolve. we have shown overseas we will prevail in the war. and we will defeat this recession. americans who've lost their jobs, our help and i support. extending unemployment benefits and direct assistance for health coverage. yet american workers want more than unemployment checks. they want a steady paycheck. when america works, america prospers. so my economic security plan be summed up in one word jobs. good jobs. begin with good. schools. and here we've made a fine start. republican and democrats work together to achieve education reform so that no child is behind. i was proud to work with members of both parties. chairman john boehner and congressman miller. se

in fact, every arch american.of these things that we are talking about today, the decline has been so steep in our government today, in our society today, none of these things can be fixed like this. none of these things can be fixed with a magic wand. the president doesn't have a magic wand. and that's a good thing. we don't want a president to come in there and get whatever he or she wants. it doesn't work that way. but we can initiate a season of repair. we can, as a nation, face the fact that these situations are abnormal. the high suicide rates. the high drug addiction rates. the high drug overdose rates. this is not normal. this is the sign of a society in crisis. let's admit that to ourselves so that we can get about the work of the changes, the radical, in a sense of radically american changes that will enable us to move forward and give people less -- more breathing room. less economic despair. less economic despair and anxiety. that ill allow people to have more wand -- band width to rebuild our communit

in short, statistical data on american soil it is broadcast by an american company under the supervision of american personnel and we named the texas project, which the chinese communist party had repelled by the forced sale of tik tok by the opposition and spokesperson of the chinese communist party that the chinese government will decide on any sale of t-shirts and the chinese communist party believes that 47 after all, he is talking about your company and spying on american journalists. can you say with certainty that he doesn't? no, i wouldn't be able to do it if the americans target iran 's sanctions. data we protect american users , so we keep out any unwanted foreign access. that's where you try, and the communist party will go away. we enter these goals, you continue to collect data, continue to sell data , continue to do all these things, and continue to do all these things through the organization owned by dr. homayoun komani cinemai. which company is not chinese, but according to an article in today's issue of the wall street journal of the ministry of commerce of china said o

american is to analyze information in this they are always mistaken , the amount of information americans quite large. and here is its quality analysis has always, especially with regard to russia , gone out of the ordinary. right now they don't even know what to do. with this unexpected move by putin when he decided to place belarusians on the territory. and in what situation today when? and what does it mean when he said about 10 aircraft? mig 31 will be ready from july 1, were these nuclear weapons? in american society it is impossible to think that everything is going upside down. if such generals have such offices in the army, if such generals have such officials in power, if such officials are professional, then this hence, culture. the same working methods the same people pass from one another, for example. he still doesn't understand anything. our military who meet him. that he is a little philosopher? so why is he such a fool? director nothing positive. and so without fur coats, which is all this discord. it's from panic they don't know what to do. they don't understand how infor

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so perhaps the chinese could learn the american history as well as the abuses of the american economic system and political system for their own advantage. because after all, and so when, when the true, when, when can make the system sustainable? and, you know, i'm michel to anyone in the world for the china to happen when they start to become globes. user friendly to the global. so they build a must become user friendly so everybody must see them as a not a natural. there's a main trading partner, not only is the main lender not only don't take leveraging the logical change, but they must see them as a friend. and so far i think you'd brush, they are rather more seen a stark nurse than the suppressed that, that at that shipped. but a matter of maturity. can i also ask a couple of questions about the american system which used to be a global dream? and as we discussed, it's in a deep crisis, not only internationally, but also domestically. when we look at the level of public dad, the state of infrastructure, social welfare, the level of crime, the level of addictions, what would it tak

there is very little american economy in europe. there are american investments.igence agencies, but all economy. still, it is tied to the chinese cycle, so the macron, when i say the first went, i believe that the continuation will be robot algorithms that exist in social networks, and no one has canceled them. we know that twitter was working for the fbi, like something stopped. i believe that the macron will now receive a very strong response from no one.

there's been a warning for americans not to travel there.xcuse to leave anyone behind. we used to believe that we would leave no one behind. no american would be left behind. we rallied behind that and we believed that. as americans, we traveled around the world. we knew country would get us. right now our embassy is empty and 16,000 americans are left behind that is shameful. >> sandra: i know you have said over and over how grateful you are to get people out and get them out safely. we'll continue to watch this and monitor this situation there as that cease fire again was just announced a few moments ago. thanks, senator, a appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> sandra: 3,000 migrants are marching in protest this mexico and tik tok on travel etiquette going viral. should passengers in the middle seat get the arm rest? we'll have more coming up. lowe's knows the biggest savings are found at springfest. so hurry up and get top deals on the top brands. online and in-store. so you can make the most of the season on any budget. backed by lowe's

well, that's american to, to do. i think the only thing i'm concerned about the americans finally learned how to leave and left leave the world is we will be a better and safer place after that. we have to leave it there, but i agree. they appreciate your conversation today. thank you very much. for that, thank you are very thoughtful and thank you for watching whole this here again on was part ah with mm ah ah, ah, i look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such order is a conflict with the 1st law show your identification, we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. the point obviously is to great trust, rather than fear a various job with artificial intelligence. real summoning with a robot most protective phone existence with operation aerodynamic began shortly after well, want to lost it almost 3 decades. it wasn't a major effort to try and split the ukraine off from the soviet union, u. s. intelligen