Stroock to Euros: I'm not Making this up!

For all the talk of our European heritage, sometimes an American writes something a European just won't get.

So one of the chapters in Nederlandse is about a smallish Dutch town fighting off Soviet paratroopers. In the governmental chapter, Prime Minister Lubbers tells a TV interviewer, 'We fight.' Our Dutch correspondent was really skeptical it would happen. 

Let's just say things are different over here. As Rick told the Krauts in Casablanca, 'There are certain areas of New York I wouldn't advise you to invade.'

If you really loved the Cuban sub, Granma, in Castro's Folly, well, she's coming back. The Final Storm will open with Granma's crew raiding an Alabama gun store. 

When we ran the idea past our Italian correspondent he wanted to know if the crew could get military style weapons at an American gun store. In Alabama.

Stop laughing, you're being rude.

We can't decide if Granma's crew is going to be driven off by a temporary alliance of pissed off Alabama and Auburn fans, angry that the commies have attacked on a Saturday during the college football season. You do not fuck with college football down there, man.

We already explored this idea in Arctic Storm, with the Soviets attacking Nome, Alaska. Big mistake. People who dive under the ice and look for gold, and who wake up every every morning and look out the window to see if a polar bear is on the front stoop, are both physically and mentally prepared for an invasion.

Greenhorn: 'What about the polar bears?'

Nome Native: 'Yeah, they taste ok.'