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KIRILL Reaching goals doesn’t happen arbitrarily. Not only do I need to make them happen, but every path the other party takes should, without a doubt, lead back to me. I have a zero percent margin of error and no tolerance for mistakes. A fact my men know about me, which is why they’re fine with training like machines all day, every day, just like we’re still in the army. It’s one of the reasons I took them to Russia in the first place. Some needed discipline, and others needed to be acquainted with a harsh lifestyle and to know what it’s like to live with a sense of deprivation. Unlike what they thought, I never planned to stay in the military all my life. It’s bland, too strict, and doesn’t allow any type of meaningful progress. However, they had to believe that or else they wouldn’t have put their all into it. It’s not a question of training as much as it’s a change of mindset. I did miscalculate my father’s desperation to bring me back to New York, though. Despite all his clingine