Sarah Paine

I think grievances would still exist.

I think Stalin's death, dictator's death profoundly weakened their systems because they've got no good succession.

So it means you're guaranteed a cat fight royale going on.

And so, I mean, that's what year one waits for, for when Putin, eventually the man will die one way or another, and there will be a cat fight royale for what happens to him.

So I don't know.

Stalin was a pretty old enough guy when he died, and Russians in those days had a pretty lousy diet.

And I can't remember if he smoked.

His generation mostly did.

So I don't know how the future would have run with good old Uncle Joe there for longer.

The Korean War would have still gone on longer.

It's really his death why that war ends.

Yeah.

So then with the Korean War goes on and on and on, I don't know what the implications are for us or for Mao.

But on the China, the Chinese Civil War, there was an understanding that it was a really big deal.

And that's why Roosevelt and the British are just thinking he's laughable.

He keeps trying to treat China like a great power and the British are going, they're not a great power.

Franklin, not remotely, but he wants to bring them into the Cairo conference or wherever the one he brings them in.

And he also wants to include them as the big, he wants them to be a veto member, wielding member of the United Nations, which by China's military status, there's just no way that

But Roosevelt is looking, there's no Japan out there.

We want to have something in Asia to counter balance.