Sarah Paine

It doesn't have these strong government institutions.

So it is much easier to script-write a place like that, to have them do things that are antithetical to their interests.

So you've got a cooperative adversary.

Chinese aren't trying to cooperate.

But from a Russian point of view, they might be a cooperative adversary versus Hitler.

Whereas Germany has all kinds of institutions and all kinds of well-educated people.

And so that, uh, who'd winking Hitler is going to be much more difficult than whoever he's dealing with in China in this period.

Well, think about today.

It's like the Korean War in reverse because China's dribbling out aid to Russia.

Russia's actually getting wrecked by Ukraine, right?

The death rate is... Russia's got, what is it, three times the population or something of Ukraine, but it's the death rate that it's suffering is really high.

And these are only children.

This is no longer the 10 children, six children peasant families in Russia.

Mm-hmm.

And it's looking from Xi Jinping, oh, the longer this goes on, the better.

Just let Putin keep on working his magic.

And I get to sell him stuff.

I'll get him to lower the prices of resources because the man's desperate.

And Putin will find himself under a Chinese yoke that he does not like.

And then at some point, the Russians will reassess.