Sarah Paine

For most of my life, I thought we had put fascism back in its box, and so we were down to dealing with communism.

But now it seems that this very authoritarian vision, which seems to rhyme with fascism, and then you can get into a big argument, what precisely is fascism, and you try to define it.

But it seems like we've come full circle in the collective West, and it's...

toxic in a way dealing with all this.

So World War I is the absolutely mismanaged war.

And then the people who lived through that set up these institutions that have held the peace until the present day when irresponsible leaders across the globe are not cautious enough.

And here we are.

And then there's a price to pay if you have a bunch of reckless drivers on the road trying to play chicken with each other, how this will all end.

And I don't know the answer.

So anyway, that's my reason for doing lectures on strategies.

I'm going to give you...

concepts, some data to think about, because you're going to have to form your own opinions and your own conclusions, but try to make it evidence-based and think about things.

I recommend reading things more deeply.

Don't take what any one person has to say.

Come to your own terms.

That's the reason for doing all this.

We're living in really portentous times where people may make decisions where there's no going back.

I mean, if we blow our alliance system, we're going to be dealing with China alone.

That won't go well, particularly if we think we're going to corner them in some way, going to go corner a great power like China and think that'll go well for us.

It won't.