Off the grid!

Right away, we go back in and we clear this up. It's more complicated than that. How is it more complicated than that? Colonel, the secretary of defense is on the line for you. We need to sit on this information till we know what it means, so we aren't sharing it with our enemies. We must consider the idea that our visitors are prodding us to fight among ourselves until only one faction prevails. There's no evidence of that. Sure there is. Just grab a history book. The British with India, the Germans with Rwanda. They even got a name for it in Hungary. Yeah. We're a world with no single leader. It's impossible to deal with just one of us. And with the word weapon now... Halpern. Yes, sir! No confirmation yet. Standing by. Anything? What did they say? China and Russia are off the grid. They aren't speaking to anyone. Whatever they learned in their last session has them spooked. Yes, sir! We have orders to do the same. These are our allies! You can't shut us down! Put us on radio silence. Do it. We received a message from the hept... damn it! We need to be talking to each other! You want to talk to them? Find out what this means. Base-camp talk is now offline. All interpreters and international liaisons, stand down and report to unit coordinators.