[dd74]

Hmmm...that's a lot of slicing. What? No dicing? No puree?

Mul: yes, we are capitalists here. And being so this country hasn't done a goddamned thing out of the goodness of its own heart. We've instead offered assistance, aid, influence much in the way the mafia operates: we give with the bald realization that something may be asked for in return, no ifs ands or buts about it.