"I spent most of my career fighting the Cold War, and I could've never seen this coming," said Walt Massey, a retired CIA Analyst. "For all the money in the world I never could've been persuaded that we'd be on stable terms with Russia in my lifetime."

Massey, who still lives in Virginia when he's not traveling the world, apologizing to its other lesser citizens, retired in the early 2000s. Over the past few months, he's observed the rise of the Trump administration and subsequent pivoting of the Republican cabinet in favor of Vladimir Putin's Russia.

"Really, my life's work has been validated. We've finally reached a point of mutual appreciation instead of mutually assured destruction. Cheers to that," he said, lifting his class at his favorite local watering hole.

While Massey's appreciation of the current U.S.-Russia relationship is not commonly held, he does share these sentiments with the fellow Agency retirees with whom he shares drinks at the same bar, each night, when not vacationing to former communist locales such as Vietnam and Cuba with his wife, Alice.

"Some guys feel like they wasted their careers. I couldn't feel more different about the whole thing," continued Massey after taking a short break to vomit in the women's restroom. "All those years of numbers and numbers and numbers... I always thought the Cold War ended a long time ago, but it looks like it just ended now. With the Trump administration."

Massey could not relay the specific functions of his agency work, but reassured that it must have made an enormous difference when one considers today's outcome.

"Hey man, they're not commies anymore over there. Enough said. They're like us. Strengths and weaknesses. Same access to the same information. Hell, I'm starting to wish I worked under President Trump. Guy's a peace maker," concluded Massey, just before he slumped into his seat, fell asleep, and was carried home by three of his friends.