on july 1, 1991, in prague, the president of czechoslovakia, vaclav havel, officially dissolved the organizationship, cooperation and mutual assistance of the warsaw pact of 1955 and thus liquidated the warsaw pact after 36 years of the military union of the ussr . the warsaw pact was an alternative over the alternative to the american project in europe and disintegration - these are structures associated, in particular, with the internal processes that took place there in the soviet union and in the countries of eastern europe, and it should have been from the point of view of the ideologists of this politics, including the soviet leadership. he had to push e, and the beginning of the period of e, a full-fledged peaceful existence, building some kind of common european home, and from lisbon to vancouver, or wanted to vladivostok , i must say that e was. uh, let's say a certain plus in this process. e, in what he put it in the western european countries e. they made a reduction in their armed forces ah, including in armaments for certain tanks on aircraft, and the americans, uh, reduced their mi

and cicero antiquity and by the likes of burke, washington and lincoln, churchill de gaulle and vaclav havel, closer to home. the first thing, of course, the first thing to do, of course, is to study them and know who they are. you know, waters world. see jefferson hayes and you know, nine out of ten new yorkers can tell you who he is we all know that's yeah that's part reality too. as it happens this is what the founders did cicero's on is a great of moral and political philosophy is a truly estimable work that shaped the moral and political imagine imagination of the west well into 19th century as. i describe in my book cicero's honorable statesman is distant from the manipulations of the machiavelli and prince and the nietzsche in over man or superman contemptuous, as they are of traditional wisdom and ethic of self-restraint and honorable ambition. but also from the aversion to the legitimate, tough minded exer sighs of authority by the contemporary humana in edges of great french catholic, a philosopher once said about contents, you know, with is moral duty, he said. the canadians don't