Sarah Paine

But think about it.

In order to educate someone, it takes years as a parent to bring up a little person, and then you get them educated, and maybe they're an A-list politician.

It takes seconds to assassinate them.

It's the asymmetry between construction and destruction.

Destruction is so easy.

that these guys are uh dictators uh tend to be uh dictatorships are all over the world it's a it's a sad part of the human condition they clearly know what they're up to in the case of um

The Soviet Union, there were multiple intelligence organizations.

That's what Stalin was using to keep track on everyone.

So you want to monopolize information so that you know more information than other people.

And then they have a whole bunch of people who are the winners of nomenklatura, are the elites there.

You make sure you pay all them off.

And, I mean, think about it.

Human society, slaves, serfs.

I mean, we humans have been doing these things to each other for a long time.

Well, first of all, it's a war economy, essentially.

You're putting all your money, so you have a big military, and Russians define greatness.

This is part of it, of being a big power, and it's military power with territory.

So, and most countries in wartime have, they mobilize for the military, right?

This country did it in World War II.

All kinds of rationing, right?