Sarah Paine

They're just looking at it.

It's limited.

He's not toppling the Austrian government.

He's not toppling the Danish government.

And then he fights the Franco-Prussian War, where he takes Alsace-Lorraine, which are these

provinces.

If you look at it, it's like a salient into one country or the other.

He takes that and the French never forgive him.

And that leads into World War I later.

But by the time it's over, he's overthrown the balance of power in Europe.

That all of a sudden Germany, Prussia, which was the weakest of five great powers, suddenly has a central position, the Germanic states, and it owns the whole thing.

And Britain and others who'd been asleep at the switch, like, ooh, because they could have weighed in on the scale at any point in these things to altered outcomes and they didn't.

There's a real reason why.

And the people who are losing out here are all, they're all monarchies.

There's a reason why you don't want to have people inherit offices.

They don't tend to be very good at it.

It's limited or unlimited.

Well, it's useful in warfare to think about limited versus unlimited objectives.

So if you look at Ukraine today...

Putin has one of the most unlimited kinds of objectives from Ukraine.