Sarah Paine

with a leadership that has not been chastened by surviving World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II, which are the grown-ups who did a very effective job dealing with the early First Cold War.

We haven't got those people anymore.

So if you look at primary adversaries, primary theaters, you don't want them to align for your enemies, because if they do, they'll coordinate.

Currently, Vlad the Bad has a Ukraine fixation.

Xi Jinping has got a Taiwan fixation opposite ends of Eurasia.

Xi Jinping is also causing India problems and doing South China Sea island battles.

uh, building, but they're, they're an opposite ends of their two empires.

So far, so far, nothing aligns with these two.

And even in a world war, it's the, their primary theaters probably would not align the same way that the axis primary theaters did not align.

And they might well disperse their resources in different directions.

But the problem was we have a lot of people with nuclear weapons.

Now you really don't want to do the hot war.

So if, um,

The West and others manage things correctly.

I've given you a huge historical legacy of fraught relations.

Play your cards appropriately, and these two will take care of each other.

And the rest of us can, if we do it right, don't.

launch trade wars on each other, but rather try to maximize our prosperity so that we get stronger and stronger while they're busy in these wealth-destroying wars.

And Putin is just blowing through all of his assets in Ukraine to no purpose.

That's how we fought and won the last Cold War.