Sarah Paine

It has nothing to do with what you're talking about.

It's simply Hitler shouldn't have declared war.

Right.

I don't know, but there are many factors that go into these things.

And that's why it's a reason why you should listen to people who disagree with you, that they may see some of these other factors, right?

We all have blind spots, and we rely on other people to find them.

But then you have to be receptive to listening.

Oh, I don't think Hitler was about sustaining any arrangement.

He was about taking over Lebensraum in Slavic lands, Russia.

But flip it the other way, which is what the Soviet Union is thinking, is it'll be great when the Germans go after the British.

What's not to like about that one?

And then they will, it's the pounce and absorb, is that they will so weaken each other that will open opportunities for Russia.

So that would be the plan.

And then he's looking at it, and I don't know the details of what his timeline is on whether he thinks it's just a delaying act.

I have not gone into the archives to read what Stalin was up to in great detail.

But I think it's basically that one is thinking that the...

The British and the Germans can go at it.

Also, the Russians had tried to be working out some deal with the British prior to all of this.

And the British, because the communists had been trying to destabilize them ever since the Bolshevik Revolution, and they didn't get just how lethal the fascists were in Germany, that they weren't just run-of-the-mill authoritarians.

They had this whole genocide component that went with them.