Past-Part Fills Part 7
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Past-Part Fills Part Seven
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"I was not the sole abstention! Czechoslovakia did the same!" Russia insisted, and though it was true, that wasn't the point, and Canada ignored the sad attempt at deflection.
"No, instead, your manpower was being redirected elsewhere in the Middle East. Instead, you were funnelling billions of dollars in economic and military aid to Afghanistan, so that you could invade it a year later!"
"That is what you think?" Russia asked. "Dorogoy, you think I used it as a distraction?"
"Don't you call me that!"
"You do. You think I used you as a distraction! It wasn't like that -"
"You're making it out to be like I'm some kind of bitter ex-boyfriend," Canada grumbled. "I knew where you were sending the money. America found out about it, so he told the rest of us. You'd been doing that for decades. Your helping out Afghanistan wasn't anything new! So why the breakup right before an invasion, eh?"
"Your brother poking his fat nose where it didn't belong was the problem," Russia ground out, and Canada was about to defend him before Russia interrupted - "No. You will let me finish. Because there is much you do not know.
"Afghanistan asked me to send troops a full year before any sort of invasion was begun. I didn't start sending troops until about six months afterwards. Around the same time she started asking me for troops, America had been - as usual! - rummaging about. He began giving money to the rebels in Afghanistan, and the second I deployed troops he let his CIA start conducting propaganda operations against me and against her government.
"What's more, America went behind all our backs to mediate a peace treaty with Egypt and Israel. Even though their bosses won a peace prize for it, it got the Arabs angry and that spiralled into them assassinating Egypt's boss some three years later. So the Arabs had decent reason to be angry with America! And that snail of a brother you have, he thinks to himself, here's a good reason to get back in their good books, slander the shit out of me, and break us up, all in one, because dorogoy, he knew. He knew full well about us and instead of giving me some nonsense shotgun talk, he simply stirred up enough conflict with the modzhahed until it forced my hand in invading Afghanistan. That led to my own little Vietnam affair, and my subsequent recession and stagnation, and the fall of the Union."
"I can't believe what I'm hearing," Canada said - although the worst part of it was that it didn't make complete nonsense and part of him knew that it was certainly something his brother was capable of - "you're even trying to pin the blame for your failure at being in a relationship on America. The Cold War ended over twenty years ago!"
Russia ignored him, though the insult stuck and his lips twitched just barely. "If I had told you about any of this, you would have banked on the success of the Egypt-Israel treaty! You would have convinced yourself it was possible, and pushed for peacekeeping missions in the region! And, lyubimyi, it would have been a bloodbath. All your men - and everybody else in that peacekeeping mission, Austria's infantry, Australia's air units, Finland's troops, Poland's medics - would have been slaughtered!"
He stood very close to Canada and stared right into his eyes. Canada felt foolish, felt awkward and observed, but despite the warmth on his cheeks, on his neck, he couldn't make himself look away... "But I confess, I was selfish, I did not care about any of their people, I cared about yours. I cared about the fact that I would have had to instruct Afghanistan and India to aim for your head. I cared about the fact that they might miss and I might have to aim and fire instead. And if I had -"
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