Sarah Paine

And I think probably if you're living in a really dangerous piece of real estate, which they are, no defensible boundaries, so you're always fighting people.

And their answer to surviving that is to be meaner than anybody else.

and they just do scorched earth.

You mess with them, they kill everybody, and they just don't care.

We have the modern world now where we can deal with each other with international law, so none of that stuff is necessary.

But the Russians have not pulled from that tradition.

And you can read in the newspaper how absolutely cruel they are to their men in service.

They don't allow any of them to retreat.

They've got the execution battalions behind them.

So any kid who turns around, they're immediately murdered by their compatriots.

Who treats their own people like this?

Russians do, but other people don't.

Oh, actually, the orphans, a lot of them were put into orphanages and then they wound up being set up to join the KGB and other places.

So they're probably some of the execution battalion people.

I don't know the details, but there's some of that going on.

And the cruelty in Russia was remarked by Europeans who were traveling there in the, I don't know, 17th century.

So it goes back a long time about the level of cruelty.

Peter the Great, back in the day, he tortured his son to death.

Who does that?

He didn't have a replacement son either.