Eventually, he is able to have, I guess we could say, a skirmish, I don't want to say a skirmish, it was actually maybe a brief battle with the Russians in August in Smolensk.

But this will give you a good background for why what would seem like a regional skirmish in Southeast Europe turns into a pan Europe and eventually pan global war.

And people, at the time, feared that South Africa would end up going the way that Rwanda has gone, descending into one skirmish after another in a civil war that seems to have no end.

And, so the original story goes, and this is a very suspect original story, in 1964, the US Maddox and this is the original story claimed that it was attacked, or it was claimed that the US Maddox was attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats, and that there was little bit of a skirmish.