Sarah Paine

We're never quitting.

And this would be Russia's problem in Ukraine.

It's going to go on.

So technology is important, but also the value of the object.

What is the relative value of whatever you think when is?

And if you look at...

If you're an Iraqi, it's a lot higher for you than it is for some American intervening there.

Or if you're looking for Japan and empire, it's a lot higher for Japanese who are looking at China and thinking that's going to be their fate.

And maybe they're misidentifying the cure.

That's a whole different matter.

But that's what they look at it.

Then for Russia, which is who even cares?

There's nothing this part of the world actually offers Russia other than bigger, more lines on a map that looks bigger.

At least one president gets one.

Different types of wars.

One's a war for unlimited objectives, which is what World War I eventually becomes.

We're trying to do regime change all over the place, which is... Whereas you're doing a limited war for Japan.

Japan, you also... You have to have a feasible objective.

If...

Japan had demanded more at those peace talks, Nicholas II would have gone back to war and he would have slaughtered them because he had all these crack troops that are just sitting there in theater and the Japanese literally don't have the men.