A delightful chat

An excerpt of the thriller The Torn Region, to be published in the near future.

A delightful chat

The torn region

An excerpt

On Sunday morning the twenty fifth of 2015 first month, the president with his three closest inferiors sat in his plush office in the Kremlin; to discuss the complicated global situation, and how he is supposed to act now and up to the next crisis, which might occur within a week or two.

Things in Eastern Ukraine are handled under control, despite the cease fire talks and the daily pressure by hostile activities is being carried on, with a slow but a promising step by step progress. There is no need to take into account the United States and its Western allies' empty threats. The United States sanctions on Russia's economy are burdensome indeed, but a temporary solution was found to overcome it somewhat; and that solution of tightening the commerce relations with Iran, will solve gradually that problem.

'How things are going in Eastern Ukraine, can we increase the pressure right now or shall we keep the situation as it is?' He asked Fradkov the SVR's head.

'The pressure was already been increased Vladia, not too drastically of course.'

'I see and what are the golf fan's reactions, I mean not his verbal reaction?' He added smiling and caused his small audience to burst out in a cheerful laugh.

'Your laughter my dear comrades is my answer.' He remarked after they calmed down gradually. 'Now then I was very encouraged by the last speech of the golf fan in front of their congress and senate members, what they call "face the nation"; he's about to sign a very convenient contract with our Iranian allies; but those who oppose him and it doesn't surprise me that they oppose him, have decided to invite the Zid (Jew boy) to speak against their president, and enable them to pass a law of increasing the sanctions against our allies. The result of such a law can delay the agreement or even cancel it completely; and thus our allies won't be able to pay their debts for the new nuclear reactor that's planned to be built, and for the sophisticated anti air missiles systems, which they're about to receive after they've signed the sale contracts.' He made a short pause as if he was forming the next sentences in his mind, and weighing with some difficulty how to phrase what he wishes to add. 'These issues should bother us less than the threat of preventing our allies from building their nuclear arsenal, with the golf fan indirect consent. This might be the negative result of the Zid's (Jew boy) visit and speech at the Capitol Hill in Washington; and our allies would be deprived of frightening our rivals with an atomic war up to their total submission. For we can't threaten the West directly and there's no point in empty threats that can't be realized, while the Teheran fanatic mob could do the dirty work for us, if the Zid won't fly to Washington. He summed the problem up and kept on thinking perturbed. 'So what do we have to do to eliminate the threat of the agreement's cancelation, which is such a convenient agreement to our allies?' He asked his most trustful inferiors.

Fradkov the SVR's head hastened to answer his boss. 'We do know all of us that the golf fan is doing the work for us, he and his trusted advisors are spreading spins and rumors, which are endorsed very well within the Zid's media; and you won't believe the tremendous opposition that Zid suffers in his own country, as an outcome of the organizations and personalities, which were nominated by the golf fan to do all they can to drive out the Zid from his country prime minister's office. On top of it Vladia you're supposed to visit the Zid's country in a short while to pressure him and promise him mutual cooperation behind the golf fan's back, and who but you can convince the Zid to stay home?'

© Haim Kadman February 2015 �" all rights reserved.