“You know, I do not expect a war between my country and yours. Truly I do not. We have little that you might wish to take away. What we have—resources, space, land—all these things you have. But the Chinese,” he said, “they need these things, and they share a border with us. And we gave them the weapons that they will use against us, and there are so many of them! Little, evil people, like these here, but so many more.” “So what are you going to do about it?” Grishanov shrugged. “I will command my regiment. I will plan to defend the Motherland against a nuclear attack from China. I just
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