B
I don't really, I more, I don't know about the government as much as, uh, the people, uh, I wouldn't consider to be a threat at all and I really don't feel much like the Soviet Union itself is a threat anymore. I'm, I'm worried about them. They're in a very, uh, tumultuous state right now with the kinds of, uh, adaptations that they're attempting to go through, uh.
A
I'm concerned about them not as a military threat, but as a burden. They're very large --
B
Yeah.
A
-- and they can become very quickly a large financial burden, as, as one more stepchild we have to carry around.
B
Yeah, I think that's, that's a real important aspect and that, uh, as the, the mo-, the most, the mo-, let's see, the more that we do, that we do or that we can do to help them become self-sufficient is going to eliminate more of the risk of that becoming, uh, you know, a reality. I know that, uh, this last winter was very hard on, uh, several areas in the, in the, the Ukraine, particularly the coal mining regions of Siberia, uh, the people there have money, that's not their problem, but there's no food for them to buy, and it's, you can't eat money.
A
And they have, a, a problem, their, their whole attitude, uh, I, I'm not sure which crop it was, but they had a crop that rotted in the fields because they couldn't get anyone to harvest it.