"A setup?"
The chef began scratching his bald head again.
Suddenly, Song Heping changed the subject and said, "Tell me your thoughts on the Crimea incident earlier this year."
"Why ask about this?"
The chef was even more bewildered.
"Why do you think your president decided to send Little Green Men to the Peninsula and directly orchestrated a referendum to annex it into your country earlier this year?"
The chef replied helplessly, "If you talk to me about making Borscht or even waging a war, I understand. But discussing these matters, well, I'm not really interested in studying them. But I think..."
He finally stopped scratching his head, took a big gulp of mineral water, and then said, "We have our naval base there, which is the only gateway to the Black Sea, and besides, it was originally the legacy left to us Russians by the Great Empress Catherine, only during the Former Soviet Union era, it was Khrushchev, that traitor, who assigned it to Ukraine."
