Sarah Paine

They've been living in a command economy forever.

This is so far above my pay grade.

I'm a professor.

I have trouble justifying a B plus on a paper.

I'm a believer in gradual reforms, do it incrementally.

And for the Soviet Union, it would be gradual legal reforms, work it through their Duma slowly and do it that way.

But seek out help.

from the European Union that has many, many experts that would be overjoyed if Putin and friends would cease doing their number on Ukraine.

And now the problem is you're going to get into reparations for what the horrors they've inflicted.

So that ship has sailed, sadly, for this generation.

There's no nice ending for Russians.

It's too late.

But you can look at Europe itself as improving its institutions and Ukraine's improving its institutions.

If you think about what forces you to change, isn't the existential threat on Ukraine, if they survive all this, this is forcing them really to clean up their institutions.

So it's happening rapidly there.

But we don't know the end of that story.

how it ends.

American hubris.

And actually, think about our country.

We have one of the most crazy tax codes on the planet, and neither party can touch it.