"If they want to expand, let them waste the money. Let us be realistic. Who is Russia going to fight now? We are a poor country. We have nothing left to fight with."
— Alexander Lebed

January 1, 1970

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Sources

"The Wars Of Aleksandr Ivanovich Lebed" in The New York Times (13 October 1996)