Sarah Paine

Because with this Sino-Soviet split and all the rest of it, Russia has to militarize its entire border with China.

It's already militarized its entire border with Europe.

Think about this.

You're talking about

mechanized nuclear armed forces with all the tanks and everything else that goes with them.

It is not cheap.

Imagine if the United States had to do this on our Canadian and Mexican borders.

Bankrupting, right?

And we're a lot richer than they are.

So we team up with China.

We provide them all kinds of naval technology, which is not going to bother us.

They give us listening posts.

Again, we love listening posts right up on the Russian border.

And the Russians are scared stiff of the Chinese.

the Chinese with good military equipment, that wouldn't be a good thing for them.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sorry, India.

I think at the time, people felt we absolutely have to be able to cover everything.

And I don't know the details of where they had their nuclear this and that stored and things and all their testing areas, but I'm sure you needed to have the entire place covered.

And so, yeah, it was very serious on these nuclear weapons.