Sarah Paine

He's the one.

So he's obviously very astute at that level.

But the problem is economics.

So he's giving away political power

before he's fixed the economic problems.

And so China's conclusion is there is no way you're going to touch political power.

They're going to hang on to that and then deal with whatever, as much of the economics as they're going to deal with.

But that's part of it.

But part of it is there's no tradition for all of these things.

And then you go, well, how did Russia get this way?

Well, it's a very difficult address.

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, it's flat.

Neighbors all invade.

And so you needed a big army in order to defeat them.

Okay, a big army is going to want a war economy.

Right?

Historically, you're going to want to support a big land force.

And that's going to... I mean, this is my take, and others who are actually experts in these various periods of Russian history can come up with something else.

But I think you're funneling, you're channeling your economics into that.

Whereas you're looking at Europe...