AAAAAAH BUTTT !
There is no capital in being an honest gentleman in this game.
As his progenitors, the good Count Yuri remonstrated in front of the foe, to be sniped at and GASSED, MACHINE GUNNED AND GENERALLY EXTERMINATED in front of a cowardly foe.
At least I may commend the great Grandson of Colonel Schnapps for not perpretrating these obscenities. ( I gather he was too busy elsewhere with other Bolsheviks and the like, and I shall further investigate the possibility of alliances with the like of Schapps and gentlemen of greater standing than some (of the back stabbers encountered erstwhile)
As for the Merciless Ming, he would be nowhere without the honest brokerage of the good Count Yuri. As for the Japanese, well I closely scrutinised their actions, acted as honest broker to them as well, and was hardly surprised at the rape of "Nanking"
The world of chivalry was lost long ago, it seems that the world of decency and that of gentlemanly warfare has also passed unto a darker age.
So be it (the gloves are off)
Extreme actions of inhumaity desensitise the victim to the point that he is capable of perpretrating equal and greater acts of barbarity upon his agressors
Watch your backs
Yours,
Count Yuri