Sarah Paine

And then if he wins there, he's going to then go after the Baltic states.

It's not going to end.

So sadly, the enemy gets a vote and you may go, well, these are idiot decisions.

Yeah, but they're very dangerous ones.

So you have to do things to counter them.

Well, the problem in that war—this is another thing that I think is really helpful to do—

is to the best of your abilities, write down primary adversary, secondary adversary, tertiary adversary.

So take all the powers in World War I and both sides and do their primary enemy, secondary, third, and you find out it is a mess.

Nothing aligns.

so that if you try to get out of that war, somebody's not going to like it because that's their primary objective.

And there's a lot of bad overlaps and who's going to get whatever parts of the Balkans they think at the end of this war.

And so in a way, you have World War I, you really have to sit down and look at it.

If I were doing a lecture on that, I have a whole other slides that would show you this, where they're fighting parallel wars.

And...

It's really not a good idea to either have royalty running the show or World War I is the war where militaries on all sides are running the show and civilians are doing the backseat saying, well, I don't really understand military operations.

We're going to let you boys do it.

Disaster.

That war sets communism and fascism.

It puts them on steroids.

And you can argue we've been dealing with that mismanagement in one way or another ever since because...