If certain parties had paid attention and had refused to be intimidated, we wouldn't be in the fix we are in today.
I have never been much of a reader. I do like adventure stories such as Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Walter Scot.
One thing which caught my attention is in just about all of Stevenson’s novels, the idea of good and evil in the same person is present. For example “long John Silver”.
One of my favorites is “Quetnin Durward”. I sometimes think I am the only person who has read it.