Sarah Paine

And when the United States tries sanctioning, but then it's just too late.

They've already tested the stuff.

And so the United States basically

gives up, and then after 9-11, of course we desperately need Pakistan again to deal with Afghanistan.

So it's a complicated world out there.

All right, so another instrument of national power is you can trade off your territory if you really want to.

Most people don't, but the Pakistanis clearly did that in 1963, and we could all speculate on what they got.

I mean, my hunch would be something to do with nuclear things, but hey, it's not as if this information is out there in the public.

It isn't.

Oh, another thing you can do is a GoFundMe insurgency.

And this is done by the United States, Russia, China, India, Pakistan.

Think if you've got a country that you don't like that has some minority people that want to secede, and so they're fighting there.

Well, you can go fund that insurgency, and then the one you don't like is pinned because they're going to be paying attention to that insurgency.

And while they're pinned there,

they can't probably do things elsewhere that you might care about.

So this is the logic of what's going on.

So the United States belatedly decided, ah, let's help the Tibetans.

And so the CIA is helping them between 57 and 61, but look at the dates.

We did the road system.

The road system in Tibet's completed by 1957.