“There will be retaliatory action taken, I assure you, Mr. Prime Minister.” The ambassador stood to face the prime minister.
The prime minister smirked. “Retaliatory action? For what? What can you do?”
“We can do plenty.”
“Not likely. You wouldn’t dare start anything. Your bomber was caught photographing our northern bases and refused to acknowledge our fighter-interceptor, which had no choice but to shoot your men down. If one of our bombers flew over Russia on a similar mission, your fighter defenses would do the same thing with no regret. Only you wouldn’t have waited as long as we did.”
“Are you implying we don’t play by the rules?”
“Exactly! You’ve never played by the rules on anything. You tell your superiors we’ve got them by the short hairs on this one.”
Try by the balls, Ste
