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“You’re working with Turkey to drive us into a war with Russia over Syrian soil?”
“I never said that. I didn’t say that.” But General Yazar’s sweaty brow and rapidly shifting gaze, from Drake over to Barry and back, told a different story.
“All I said was that the Russians recently redeployed their Su-57 Felon fifth-generation fighters to Syria for combat testing. It’s our chance to trial our own newest systems. A real-world test of our F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II fighters. We should be doing the same against China’s Chengdu J-20 and the Shenyang J-31 in the South China Sea. We’ve got to put these people in their places.”
Barry’s look didn’t change in the slightest, but Drake could read him. He sat bolt upright in his chair, his fingers interlaced, except his forefingers, whic
