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General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war?While it may no longer be our precious bodily fluids under attack by the big bad Rooskies and their ever-scheming leadership, it is clearly our political system that is in the Kremlin's crosshairs.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don't think I do, sir, no.
General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; 1968
"An annexation means breaching international agreements, and it is doubtless that agreements guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity were breached," Zeman said.But, at the same time, the Czech President noted that an unforgivable stupidity was committed by Nikita Khrushchev, who in 1954 made Crimea a part of Ukraine, which was then a part of the Soviet Union.
"The world's politicians acknowledge today that Crimea cannot be given back to Ukraine," Zeman stressed.
"At various stages of these measures (exercise - TASS) more than 120,000 troops, members of federal ministries and agencies and also specialists of the Central Bank of Russia were involved consecutively, at different periods in the Southern, Central and Western military districts," Gerasimov said.
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