Sarah Paine

So that Russia, it's got three times the army now.

It's there and they can bring them in at 100,000 a month.

And we just saw the Mukden where the Russians had 125,000 more men than the Japanese.

Well, if they can ship in 100,000 a month, wait a few months, and then it's going to get really ugly.

So it wasn't feasible.

And there's another piece.

So you're going to go fight a war.

And then you lose a lot of people.

And that's why the Japanese are feeling they should have gotten more because you've got General Nogi who's committing suicide over this.

And the poem at the very beginning I showed you, the Meiji Emperor also has this feeling of sorrow, is that war, as you start losing, this is Putin's problem.

He's lost so many people.

He didn't feel sorrow, but he needs to get revenge that's equivalent

to make up for that.

So the longer these wars go on, the harder it is to stop them.

And so on Versailles, it's a different story because there is an unwillingness to enforce the peace, and there is also a feeling of, particularly in France and also Britain, to get really even with the Germans.

And then the United States is an irresponsible power in those days, where one of the reasons you get World War II has to do with the Great Depression, which is not strictly related to the Versailles peace term, term, terminating the war, that if you hadn't had the Great Depression, maybe the Versailles settlement would have been good enough.

We'll never know.

And one of the reasons the Great Depression gets so bad is because this country is

doesn't want to act as the lender of last resort, which is what Britain had done in the past, but it couldn't after World War I. It had been bankrupted, and our country's irresponsible.

These problems are on the other side of the sea, and we think, okay, America first and whatever.