Sarah Paine

So you're going to fly in the aviation fuel to land that's going to be the same aviation fuel that's going to get you back and however many other bombers that you can deal with in China.

It's not workable.

Okay.

And Russia, even though it got a lot less than Britain because it's not getting ships, but it's getting equally valuable, useful things.

For instance, Russia produces a lot of planes, but it didn't produce adequate high-octane aviation fuel.

The United States had loads of that.

The United States produced all kinds of vehicles, all kinds of rolling stock, locomotives.

And this is what Russia used to transport everything.

And the United States prevented Russia from going into a famine in the winter of 42, 43.

We fed them.

And this spam in a can, this is Hormel inner foods, contribution to the war.

Everyone had so much spam during the war, they never, it's canned pork.

No one ever wanted to see it again, but a little can of pork, it goes a long way and it doesn't spoil in a can.

And this lend-lease aid goes, a quarter of it goes up through Murmansk.

A lot of it gets sunk up there and not reliable.

A quarter of it goes through Persia, and then half of it goes over the Trans-Siberian.

And you go, well, what's this Axis alliance about?

Why aren't the Japanese sinking any of this, right?

Talk about a dysfunctional alliance.

All right.