Quote: The Brutal Math That Ran Russia

This is from a novel taking place during the siege of Leningrad. You realize how wonderful America is when you read something like this:

The enemy had declared total war when they invaded the country. The had vowed, repeatedly and in print, to incinerate our cities and enslave the populace. We could not fight them in moderation. We could not fight total war with half war. The partisans would continue picking off Nazis; the Nazis would continue massacring noncombatants; and eventually the Fascists would learn that they could not win the war even if they killed thirty civilians for every one of their dead soldiers. The arithmetic was brutal, but brutal arithmetic always worked in Russia's favor.

- David Benioff, City of Thieves