@bief:
thx for the link.
@subject
I thought this would be over in a week

I don

> Little Paul wrote:

> I see nobody in this thread questioning the seriousness of the situation whilst 2 months back everybody laughed at my prediction for dangerous tensions as an "exageration of predicting a new cold war". That all because of a minor struggle.

Russia still has a shitload of nuclear weapons so has US. Little has changed in the concept of a cold war except for the people themselfs. Russia seeks to defend/expand itself not by "bufferzones" like stalin but by vital energy and rescource control.
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Don't blame me.
I didn't read that stuff of your cuz I wasn't here.

"I will fight for your right to be wrong!" << S.G. Tallentyre
"I am a flexible centrist: not stuck on right-wing, not stuck on left-wing, and not stuck on centre...and I don't flip-flop either" <<< me
Fighting for peace is like stopping the raping of a virgin.

"I don

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Saakashvili (or how is it written?) has had troubles with the Russians and the Ossetians for ages now. The thing is that the region is quite wealthy in natural resources, and as he tries to get rid of the corruption and the poverty his country's in, he needs those. He can't afford to lose it. I don't think he's that stupid to think he could get away with it, I'm sure he realised it'd only buy him enough time to get the plans far enough to gain actual control of the region, before the russians started a counteroffensive.
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and thats a good excuse to destroy a whole city?

> Deci wrote:

> > Newb wrote:

> But the EU may privately allow and/or help Russia or the Orient or the Arab nations attack the USA.

now, if only EU wanted that this fantasy might start making some sense.
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now, if only one seriously considered that possibility, they may not have their heads stuck in the sand and miss out on what may actually be happening.

"I will fight for your right to be wrong!" << S.G. Tallentyre
"I am a flexible centrist: not stuck on right-wing, not stuck on left-wing, and not stuck on centre...and I don't flip-flop either" <<< me
Fighting for peace is like stopping the raping of a virgin.

> Matrix wrote:

> "
Saakashvili (or how is it written?) has had troubles with the Russians and the Ossetians for ages now. The thing is that the region is quite wealthy in natural resources, and as he tries to get rid of the corruption and the poverty his country's in, he needs those. He can't afford to lose it. I don't think he's that stupid to think he could get away with it, I'm sure he realised it'd only buy him enough time to get the plans far enough to gain actual control of the region, before the russians started a counteroffensive.
"

and thats a good excuse to destroy a whole city?
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...sorry, just thot i should bump this to keep this thread on-topic

"I will fight for your right to be wrong!" << S.G. Tallentyre
"I am a flexible centrist: not stuck on right-wing, not stuck on left-wing, and not stuck on centre...and I don't flip-flop either" <<< me
Fighting for peace is like stopping the raping of a virgin.

Sadly the USA no longer has the balls to deal with an aggressor nation, we insist on aggressive diplomacy after the supposed "quagmire" of Iraq.

As a nation of 300 million with an $11,000,000,000,000 economy we insist we can do less than when we had 130 million and $2,000,000,000,000 GDP

EU of course was founded on doing nothing

EU wont even announce talks about sanctions on this one, cause Russia would stop their precious oil and natural gas deliveries.

They won't even go so far as to be to strongly critical and will restrain any nations which stand up for Georgia.

Whats that sound I hear? Oh thats history mentioning in a cough a little nation known as Austria and the march of a would be again super power of that time. My question is who gets to play Chamberlain this time?