Sarah Paine

And then later they're eliminating the Khanates of Central Asia.

These are states.

It's a different way of organizing yourself.

But the Khanate of Crimea, Kazan, Astrakhan, Khokhan, Kiva, Bohara, they get rid of all of it.

And then there's been this repeated vivisecting of European neighbors, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Sweden, and Finland, of taking their territory one bite at a time.

And you can see it going on today.

And the Russians just don't see it, that if you do this to other people...

This is why at the end of the Cold War, everyone is stampeding into NATO.

It's not some conspiracy.

It's just what the Russians have done to them.

And now I'm going to illustrate Poland's fate to show what happens when you're surrounded by rapacious continental empires.

Three partitions of Poland in the 18th century.

This is when Prussia, Austria, and Russia are taking things.

The Russians say, but we didn't take Polish territory.

They're taking the Polish empire.

It's a technicality.

And if you wonder why Poles cannot stand Russians, it would be this, and it would also be the genocide-laced occupation of Poland that went on for several generations after World War II.

And, oh, part of that...

Yalta, again, the Russians insisted on moving Poland 200 kilometers to the west.

That is not the normal thing to do to a country.