Sarah Paine

The United States is the primary adversary of both Russia and China.

Now with this, they're primary adversaries of each other.

It causes a reshuffling of the allies, and I'll get to that later.

So, okay, I've done the playing field of these decisions that delimited it.

But now I'm going to get to the allies, and some allies are better than others.

And here we got Mao and Khrushchev.

Look at these lovebirds.

Boy, when that divorce took place, boy, did it mess up the extended family.

Never mind.

For my purposes tonight, I'm going to use the word alliance really loosely.

If you sign a mutual defense pact, for my purposes tonight, that makes you an alliance, allies.

And if you're a political scientist, you've got something that's much more complicated, but forget it.

I just can't handle it.

So we're going to do it this way.

All right.

So Stalin didn't think much of Nehru at all.

He thought he was a lackey of British colonialism.

But Khrushchev thought India was really important to counterbalance China.

And here's Nehru thinking about it.

We have to be on friendly terms with both Russia and America.