Sarah Paine

China now has a population that's a multiple of ours, an industrial base that's a multiple of ours.

Why on earth would you ever wanna take on them alone?

So I'm going to quote Pericles, who was the leader of Athens at its height, when it was building all these ancient ruins that weren't ruins when they were being built.

Right?

They're gone.

And he was...

This warning came on the eve of the succession of Athenian blunders and ancient Athens never recovered.

I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices.

Our leaders truly need to ponder this before they wreck all of us, themselves included.

So thank you for your attention.

That's what I have to say about Sino-Soviet things.

well, I gave you all these bad things that Russia had done to China, which are, they're not small things.

And then isn't the problem with communism is that the economics of it don't actually work.

And that fundamentally, these two countries are continental powers.

They're continental empires.

And sure, they change out ideologies, the ideology of the Jazar empire,

changes out to communism and China is changing out Confucianism for communism.

But the principle that each one should be king of the roost, that hasn't changed.

And that would be a mutually exclusive proposition of who's gonna run Asia and then Eurasia, right?

Because they have a shared address, right?