Sarah Paine

It's because he's an industrialized country trying to deal with the Japanese, whom we found very difficult to fight.

So why wouldn't he find them difficult?

I think we stopped it very rapidly at the end of the war.

So, yeah, the British were appalled how rapidly the Lend-Lease aid stopped because they desperately needed it because they'd been wrecked by the war.

So, yeah, we did cut it off.

But you definitely want Nazi Germany gone, and you want to keep supporting Russia until that happens.

That is modern international law.

And I don't know what, you'd have to be a lawyer, it's probably a lawyer who actually knows of when you decide modern international law begins.

But certainly by the time you're getting through world wars, we're in modern international law.

And that's the problem with what Putin's, his magic, he's working on Ukraine.

is they signed multiple times at the breakup of the Soviet Union and then afterwards what Ukraine's borders were, and they're violating all that.

Well, have fun with it because the Chinese can play that game in reverse on Siberia, and we'll see how happily that one ends.

But I think there is a realization...

that these disputes go back forever, and it's like musical chairs.

We're now freezing.

Whatever chair you're in, that's it.

And that's modern international law.

And it turns out that those countries that focus on territory are ripping it off from someone else or...

It's negative sum.

You're going to fight over it.