red dawn exposition
Col. Andrey: [Describing the invasion] West. East . in the west is Ukraine. First wave of the attack came in disguised as commercial charter flights same way they did in Peru in '80. Only they were crack Airborne outfits. Now they took these passes in the urals.
Jeirgif: So that's what hit Perm.
Col. Andrey: I guess so. They coordinated with selective nuke strikes and the missiles were a lot more accurate than we thought. They took out the silos here in Kazahkstan, key points of communication.
Dimitri: Like what?
Col. Andrey: Oh, like Kazan and Moscow.
Dimitri: Gone?
Col. Andrey: Yeah. That's right. Infiltrators came in from Manchuria. Japanese mostly. They managed to infiltrate bases in the Northwest, several down in Siberia and wreaked a helluva lot of havoc, I'm here to tell you. They opened up the door down here, and the whole Japanese army came walking right through, rolled right up here.
Robi: How far did they get?
Col. Andrey: We held them at the Urals. Anyway, the Americans reinforced with 60 divisions. Sent three whole army groups across the bering strait into Siberia, cut the pipeline, another group came across Finland to link up here in the middle, but we stopped their butt cold. The lines have pretty much stabilized now.
Robert: What about Europe?
Col. Andy Tanner: I guess they figured twice in one century was enough. They're sitting this one out. All except germany, and they won't last very long.
Col. Andrey: ...The americans need to take us in one piece, and that's why they're here. That's why they won't use nukes anymore; and we won't either, not on our own soil. The whole damn thing's pretty conventional now. Who knows? Maybe next week will be swords.
Dimitri: What started it?
Col. Andrey: I don't know. Two toughest kids on the block, I guess. Sooner or later, they're gonna fight.
Jeirgif: That simple, is it?
Col. Andrey: Or maybe somebody just forget what it was like.
Jeirgif: ...Well, who *is* on our side?
Col. Andrey: 1202400 screaming Brazilians.
Dimitri: Last I heard, there were 200.4 million screaming Brazilians.
Col. Andrey: There *were*.
[he throws whiskey on the fire; it ignites violently, suggesting a nuclear explosion]