A brutal, seemingly invincible Russian general flees the Motherland.
Determined to control an international maritime chokepoint as the Ottoman Empire did 400 years earlier, he boldly trumpets his plan to the shipping industry.
Skeptical, the free world is soon set back on its heels and seems powerless to deal with the self-styled despot.
Negotiations are impossible.
The Russians try a special-operations takedown.
The General may hold a trump card that no one wants him to play.
Conventional milit.
