A New Ice Age?

Russia is a mere shell of the former Soviet Union, right?

Yeah, because half of them live here in the US now....

At this stage, BRINKMANSHIP is necessary for NATO & Russia to practice to show to their respective citizens that the interests and principles they are fighting for are honorable. As news coverage fades, BACK CHANNELING -the tested and proven solution to most crisis - will take over. The Balkan crisis is too small to start a cold war. Terrorism, energy sufficiency, food security are the most important concerns of all nations.

Just unleash Germany, maybe Russia will think twice then.

RUSSIA IS BEHIND ON MILITARY TECHNOLOLGY...HA !!!

RUSSIA IS LAUGHING AT US...WE'RE THE ONES WITH ONGOING WARS IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ, WITH ALL OUR MODERN MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WHY ARE WE STILL THERE AND THE CARNAGE CONTINUES..HUH

RUSSIA COUL'VE FED US FILM OF THEIR DEFEAT IN AFGHANISTAN, TO LEARN A VALUABLE LESSON. WITH ALL OUR MILITARY, AN CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY, WHY ARE WE NOT FIGHTING IN RUSSIA'S BACKYARD AND STEAMROLLING THEM INTO DEFEAT OR WHY HAV'NT WE BEATEN THESE (2) BACKWARD COUNTRIES IRAQ & AGHANISTAN INTO SUBMISSION IN LESS THAN A YEAR..HUH

5 YEARS, 5 YEARS AND WE HAVE THE LARGE NUMBERS, THE VERY BEST TRAINED, THE BEST EQUIPMENT, THE BEST TECHNOLOGY AND THE THE SUPERIOR NUMBERS.

WE KNOW BETTER....RUSSIA HAS ONE OF THE LARGEST OF STOCKPILE MISSILES IN THE WORLD.

YOU SIDELINE CHEERLEADING SISSY'S KEEP BELIEVING THOSE STAR WARS MOVIES, INDEPENDENCE DAY MOVIE WITH WILL SMITH AND JEFF GOLDBLUM...

THE REST OF US, KNOW BETTER.

TECHNOLGY, LARGE MILITARY NUMBERS IN BOTH IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN AND THEY STILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT BACK AND THEY STILL WON'T RUN FOR (5 YRS.)

OH YEAH, WE'RE SUPERIOR TO THOSE 2 COUNTRIES...PUH-LEASE !!!

SPARE ME AND THE FREE WORLD, YOUR BLIND, NAIEVE AND NARROW MINDED OPINIONS ON HOW SOPHISTICATED AND ADVANCED OUR MILITARY IS, TO THE FREE WORLD.

NOW THROW IN CHINA, AFTER THE OLYMPICS, WE'LL HERE FROM HU JIN TAO, WHO CONFERRING WITH PUTIN AND MEDVEDEV, DAILY.

REMEBER LAST YEAR'S CHINA NAD RUSSIAN JOINT MILITART EXCERCISES..HUH

CHINA WILL SOUND OFF ON THIS CONFLICT, AFTER THE OLYMPICS, SOON AFTER, I WILL ASSURE YOU AND IT WILL NOT FAVOR US, AT ALL.

JUST THINK, RUSSIA & CHINA AGAINST THE USA..

THE NUCLEAR MIGHT, ECONOMIC MIGHT AND MILITARY MIGHT.

THANK THE 5 PAST PRESIDENTS, INCLUDING BBUSH JR. FOR GIVING CHINA UNLIMITED ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED INFORMATION AND MASSIVE ECONOMIC STIMULATION. RUSSIA SUPPLIES THE WORLD WITH GAS AND OIL AS WELL, WITH AMERICA BEING A RECEPIENT OF RUSSIA'S NATURAL RESOURCES.

Facing another cold war? Get real, it's a done deal. A done, freaking, deal.

It's strange that Russia is allowing Putin to try to unify Russia the old communist way and risk Cold War II, after the bitter lesson Russia learned about Cold War I (all you get is a bunch of client states which are broke and ran by despotic revolutionarys and radicals!).
Now the incursion did excite American radicals around the country to wage the AMERICANS SUCK FIRST campaign banner, like a toilet plunger festooned with toilet paper streamers and a hearty "YESWECAN!"
But for Russia the demonstration will be over soon and it be faced with not only having it's own internal problems with islamo-terrorists but also the lose of western sypathy and possible assistance with that problem. Add to that a Cold War and all that was about.
And Russia be on the wrong side of history, again!

"The United States and Western Europe have flailed about, ultimately unable to check Russia's unabashed aggression" Mr. Adrew Bast is blind in both eyes. The US is the aggresor because it instigated the recent conflict in Georgia. The US is also the aggresor in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Latin America. Russia is only responding to the agression and defending itself against the US hegemony. Look who wants to install missiles close to Russia? Mr. Bast don't pretend to be stupid!

The Bush regime would like us to forget that it was Georgia that attacked small independent Ossetia. Mr. Bush simply wants to prop up the puppet government that he and the neo-con corporations have installed so that they can use Georgia for oil transport and their own greedy needs. It is a sad time in the USA when one can trust the Russians more that the ???Resident??? of the White House.

I dont think any country would stand back if they saw there people been attacked whilst they are sleeping. To be honest I think 99% of people know the truth behind this war! and to scared to admit that Russia stood by its people and did what it was saposed to do. To me this is sick as the people behind this know who they are but luckely the man above knows the truth and will stick by Russia for saving its people.

I keep wondering what the Russians are thinking. Their strategic nuclear forces are in terrible shape. My understanding is that they can hardly keep ONE balistic missile submarine at sea. Their aircraft and navy are at least three generations behind the West's. And finally, their early warning sattelites are half blind from disrepair. If push came to shove, the US could decapitate the Russian governemt befor they realized what had happend.And that, as they say, would be that.

Who Started Cold War II ?

http://antiwar.com/pat/index_pat.html

John McCain's War Experience, via the Russia-Georgia SetUp, Did Not Work..At All and Neither will John McCain's attempt at the Presidency of the USA.

by Patrick J. Buchanan

The American people should be eternally grateful to Old Europe for having spiked the Bush-McCain plan to bring Georgia into NATO.

Had Georgia been in NATO when Mikheil Saakashvili invaded South Ossetia, we would be eyeball to eyeball with Russia, facing war in the Caucasus, where Moscow's superiority is as great as U.S. superiority in the Caribbean during the Cuban missile crisis.

If the Russia-Georgia war proves nothing else, it is the insanity of giving erratic hotheads in volatile nations the power to drag the United States into war.

From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, U.S. presidents have sought to avoid shooting wars with Russia, even when the Bear was at its most beastly.

Truman refused to use force to break Stalin's Berlin blockade. Ike refused to intervene when the Butcher of Budapest drowned the Hungarian Revolution in blood. LBJ sat impotent as Leonid Brezhnev's tanks crushed the Prague Spring. Jimmy Carter's response to Brezhnev's invasion of Afghanistan was to boycott the Moscow Olympics. When Brezhnev ordered his Warsaw satraps to crush Solidarity and shot down a South Korean airliner killing scores of U.S. citizens, including a congressman, Reagan did â?????? nothing.

These presidents were not cowards. They simply would not go to war when no vital U.S. interest was at risk to justify a war. Yet, had George W. Bush prevailed and were Georgia in NATO, U.S. Marines could be fighting Russian troops over whose flag should fly over a province of 70,000 South Ossetians who prefer Russians to Georgians.

The arrogant folly of the architects of U.S. post-Cold War policy is today on display. By bringing three ex-Soviet republics into NATO, we have moved the U.S. red line for war from the Elbe almost to within artillery range of the old Leningrad.

There is a single reason for a "weak and divided" response from the West: Georgia is not a victim, it was an aggressor. No matter what White House says, the fact is that Georgia started this by invading South Ossetia, killing civilians and Russian peacekeepers in the process.

Russia had responded with an overwhelming force to make Georgian military incapable of waging war -- and quickly. Calling this a "disproportional" use of force is a hypocrisy, as a less definite response would only prolong the fighting and people's suffering.

Politicians in Europe understand that and they don't want to start a new Cold War under a false pretext. No matter how the White House want to help McCain.