 uh we're just as strong as we ever were or we're in our moment uh we're the united states or we're carthage or worth the ancient thebes or we're constantinople the bulwark of christendom in the east and this will not happen to us and they had no idea that people they were dealing with or the fact that allies are fickle and don't help people who were perceived to be weak so i found it very chillingly contemporary