"The Russians have laid claim to the Arctic..."
"With good reasons."
"What good reasons? It's so cold there."
"One, it has gone down extremely well with the Russian public and with elections coming on soon that can't hurt."
"True."
"Two, because that area has an estimated 25% of the world's total oil and gas reserves."
"That is good - didn't we fight with Indians over Siachin?"
"It is cold over there."
"And that's it?"
"Pretty much, other than a monumental ego on both sides."
"I heard we had abandoned the glacier completely to the Indians?"
"I am no longer very sure what is happening on that front. Musharraf has back-tracked on policies so much that it's not clear to me what is happening anywhere in our relations with India."
"When Indians cry wolf the world listens."
"And I guess we are the wolf, breeding terrorists and..."
"And that's the line taken."