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T-90s?”
     
    “Sir, they are with the Fourth Guards on the border with the PRC.”
     
    “Leave them there for now. If the yellow bastards see us withdrawing armor, they’ll sense weakness and launch another series of cross-border attacks.”
     
    “Yes, sir.”
     
    “Send a few platoons of Spetsnaz to locate who destroyed our tanks. If they are Americans, keep some alive. I’ll need them to pressure the stupid American President.”
     
    “Yes, sir.”
     
    “Increase the security of all of our bases in the Ukraine.” 
     
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    Lacy and I sit across from each other enjoying breakfast, sipping cups of rich freshly brewed coffee. Lacy smiles looking at me, “Honey since we can live anywhere, where would you like to go?”
     
    “I was just going to ask you the same thing.”
     
    “Hawaii?”
     
    “I knew you’d say that. I think Hawaii is out, it’s too far for the kids to visit. Plus, if anything really bad happens in the world we’re going to be stuck out there.”
     
    “Honey, the weather’s perfect, if we bought some land we could grow everything we’d need. If nothing happens, we’ll live in paradise.”
     
    “Do you really want to be so far away from everyone we know?”
     
    Lacy smiles, saying, “No, you’re right, we can vacation there, I know where I don’t want to live.”
     
    “Me too, I don’t want to move back to California, I don’t want to live in the North East.”
     
    Lacy laughs, “But Jay, you were born in New Jersey, aren’t we going to be buried in Jersey?”
     
    “I was born there and got out as soon as possible, the only reason we’re going to be buried there is, it's where the family plots are. Since I’m to the right of Attila the Hun, I don’t get along with anyone there anymore. In addition, it’s too cold. Same for the Mid West.”
     
    “Don’t you get along with your cousins?”
     
    “Only if we don’t discuss politics.”
     
    We’re interrupted by the television in the background, the ‘News Bulletin’ flashes on the screen. Lacy looked up saying, “Now what? What else can go wrong in the world?”
     
    The ‘talking head’ reported the FBI arrested a Russian spy working for a bank on Wall Street.
     
    I sip my coffee, telling Lacy, “Not good.”
     
    “What does it mean?”
     
    “About the only reason I can think of for an FSB agent to be working on Wall Street is to screw with the market or to screw with our currency.”
     
    “Jay, what’s FSB mean?”
     
    “Sorry, the FSB is the replacement for the Russian spy agency which used to be called the KGB.”
     
    “You mean like the CIA?”
     
    “Yes. They’re similar.”
     
    “I thought the Cold War was over, why are they spying on us?”
     
    “Honey, they’re spying on us, we’re spying on them. The Obama reset button with Russia didn’t work, it was all a big PR bullshit event. Our relations with them are as bad now as when we were in the Cold War. Our relations may even be worse than during the Cold War. Russia is flying bombers towards Alaska and Europe again. They have developed new generations of weapons and all the while we’ve been reducing the size and strength of our military, Putin is rebuilding the Russian military. Putin is playing Obama like a fiddle. When they said Obama was the smartest man in the room, there must have been no one else in the room. He hasn’t shown he knows anything about foreign relations. His policies are making things worse around the world. Our friends don’t trust us and our enemies don’t fear us.”
     
    “Do you think the arrest means anything of significance?”
     
    “Depends what the agent was doing when he got caught. I don’t trust Putin. He’s never given up the goal of making Russia the world’s sole superpower, he’d like to dominate the entire world. He’s rearming the Russian military, he’s waking the Red Bear out of its hibernation. He’s never taken his eyes off of Europe.”
     
    “Does it impact