We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.