Sarah Paine

It's just breathtakingly backwards.

in just about every way imaginable from just, yeah, they got a big fancy subway system, looks remarkably retro, and yeah, at least it works.

But the consumer goods were so awful.

The quality was so bad.

You look at the buildings themselves.

I get it.

They make nuclear weapons.

Do they make anything else?

Their cars were a joke, their Ladas or whatever they were.

It's just thing after thing.

And so you're looking at all their stats, because that's what they are telling you, that we're so great.

And it really is an emperor wears no clothes moment.

Finally, the little kid goes, oh, you're actually naked.

Or I can give you an example.

These acquaintances in Moscow were talking about hospitals outside of Moscow that some of them didn't have running water.

How do you have a hospital without running water?

I don't even know how that's even conceivable.

Or when their kid had put her hand through, I don't know, a glass door or something, and they wanted to get her stitched up because she's bleeding, not going to die, but she's probably bleeding all over the place.

And they bring her to one place and, oh, they got no thread to do the stitches, so then they have to go to another place.

Who runs a country like this?