Well, the Soviet Union and the United States are sort of at a standoff, which could push the world into nuclear war. About a month before I came to the Barge, they almost came to blows. Have you heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis? [Which, you know, he'd sort of helped prevent and his getting shot and distracting Erik stopped him from making the situation even worse, but. He usually didn't talk about that part of what happened when discussing general history.]