it's kennan. kennan's telegram in early 1946 lays out a cold war -- what's causing it and what the american and western side of this is going to be with great prescience. this is an analysis of the soviets written by somebody who -- who spent most of his professional life at that point to the soviet union and understood the dynamics and western dynamics and opposition to it. and he and other people who i think had sensible views on the cold war which predominated for the most part, understood war could be avoided. that the danger of war was ever-present because of the soviet experience because of the great losses in europe, the great devastation that that war caused and so forth. a conflict of some kind was going to ensue. >> yes, over there. oh, wait for the microphone. [inaudible] >> we couldn't hear. >> i was thinking in terms of the claim of kennedy in terms of the missile gap. and i was wondering if there was some evidence of chagrin on the part of eisenhower being frustrated and being put in

wasn't just me, it was virtually all people with real expertise in russia in putting the late george kennan we feared at a delicate time in russia's political evolution this would return the russian political class against the united states and indeed that is what has happened. the russian political elite is reflexively antiamerican. that isn't true of the russian political elite, it's true of the russian people. dispels anti-american rhetoric regularly and one reason i believe he does that is it is popular. it plays well in russia, and the unpopularity of the united states i believe goes back to be ill-advised decision to expand nato. when people ask me what should we do about the my response is it is both too late and too early to do anything about it. i think the end of the day russia probably should be admitted to nato, but we cannot admit to nato russia today a aggressive bleeding hypocrisy run by a group of people who were in power mainly to steal the oil revenues. so we have to hope for the political evolution of russia that would make it once again what it was i believe at the begin