I will have to go back and give it a look. I remember listening to the audiobook on my long drives. I recall thinking to myself, “You must have gotten out of there to write this thing...but you are cutting it close.”
I think the final straw was the Russian invasion. That kind of was the icing on the “creep” cupcake. If he was crazy enough to do that...the US wasn’t far behind.
Had to look it up:
Howard K. Smith - Last Train from Berlin