"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed."

-John F. Kennedy, April 1961

It seems that the world is oblivious to the possibility that we avoided civil war II by 1 inch yesterday. I wasn't alive in Austro-Hungary in 1914 but it feels like our current political tensions couldn't withstand a Trump assassination without snapping