The Shadow Republic

"I don't want eight-year-olds to have to sell drugs for survival. I don't want children to kill each other." He sighed. "Because of everyone like you, this happens. There can't be peace or whatever you're begging for. Your people want power and my people want freedom. Those two wishes can't coexist. And I'm not going to champion the downtrodden only to settle for a compromise where we have to be constantly wary. So it's going to be bloody. But if that's what it takes for us to be left alone, so be it."