Sarah Paine

And so the British are thinking, well, the real threat are the communists in Russia.

And they're right.

Long term, they are the real threat.

But in the more medium term, it's the Germans are.

And so it takes blitzkrieg for the British to go, uh-oh.

and then they're willing to team up with Russians.

And Russia's willing to team up with them, right?

When German invasion transforms what had been primary enemies, he takes that role, being primary enemies for both Britain and Russia, then you're going to glue another alliance.

So that's the trick in our own day.

You do not want to do things that the United States is the primary enemy of those two, of Xi Jinping and Putin.

Currently, we're not, right?

It's Taiwan or India or Vietnam, whatever Xi Jinping's going to steal currently.

That's his primary problem.

And it's definitely Ukraine for Putin.

And you want to keep that all divided up to the extent that you're able to do that, right?

A lot of things aren't feasible.

These are high stakes things.

But you do not want to... This is where...

being really just not thinking about your foreign policy.

It takes a lot of experts and a lot of people to guess, game out, what is your best course of action?