KC10 FATboy

Wars have been started over much less than this. All it is going to take is for our guys to tangle with their guys -- and we could be headed down a very slippery slope.

-Fatty

Zapata

Read jet320's post...he/she is spot on......or at least read a newspaper or something. There are no political parallels between Saddam attacking Kuwait and Russia attacking Georgia. It's a completely different situation.

J Dawg

Jet320's 2 posts make no sense to me due to poor grammar (no offense jet320).

There are plenty of political parallels between Saddam invading Kuwait and Russia attacking Georgia; control of natural resources for example. Or the leaders of the attacking forces expecting the rest of the world to be passive (Saddam guessed wrong). Perhaps you missed the part of my quote where I stated the outcome of this conflict as far as other countries involvement will be different, for the reasons Rickair7777 better explained.

You can have the USA Today or NY Times; I'm up on current events just fine, thanks.

⌐ AV8OR WANNABE

You're correct even though Gleiwitz/Gliwice was only one location of the Nazi provocations - there were numerous other pretext events along the entire German/Polish border - in the end the Germans were going to invade no matter what.

Same can be said about Russia - they moved several armored tank divisions to the proximity of the Georgian border some 6 months ago and despite the Georgian government protesting and begging the West for help we didn't do much (not sure if there's much that we could've done).

Germany knew that Russians had some murky plans regarding Georgia which is why they recently blocked Georgia from joining NATO – they didn't want to be obligated to help in case the Russians attacked. The Russians took that as a confirmation of their beliefs that the entire Western hemisphere is all-about-talk-and-no-walk and they started their provocations.

I just heard that Ukraine (which is leasing the seaport of Sevastopol to the Russian Black Sea Fleet) is threatening Russia that naval ships that are participating in the blockade of Georgian ports might be prevented from reentering Ukraine. Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko is the gentleman who was poisoned with dioxin during the election campaign; he is strongly pro-Western.

I give it months before some ‘Russian citizens’ in Sevastopol and other Ukrainian cities of the Crimean peninsula will ask for protection from Russia and subsequently to be absorbed into Russia.

The high oil prices have created a major burden on our economy but most of all they have created a huge problem for all neighbors of Russia – the extra revenue has filled the Russian governments’ pockets to the limits and now they’re trying to expand their ‘Mother Russia’ empire.

All current and future conflicts will have the same theme – “we are just helping the Russian citizens no matter where they live” - I’m afraid Georgia is just the beginning.

Also, the Russians will use Kosovo as their excuse for carving out a big chunk of Georgia and making it Russian instead (they might let those territories become "independent" for a few years after which they'll 'ask' to become part of Russia.)

That’s why I personally opposed Kosovo becoming independent of Serbia – I knew that more would follow. After all, Kosovo has been a part of Serbia for thousands of years and now with our help they've separated. I am NOT defending Serb atrocities at all, just stating that we’ve created a huge problem for the future generations. Probably within the next 10-20 years Kosovo will merge with Albania. I see a repeat of that in all countries bordering Russia that have large Russian populations - they'll try to grow Russia by "defending Russian citizens" in those countries.

CrimsonEclipse

Russians don't take a dump without a plan.

and

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

CE

(one ping only)

BoredwLife

Nice way to ruin a perfectly good Red Dawn reference/joke!!

aileronjam

Chuck Norris is so tough, even his turds have muscles.

Zapata

Okay, yeah right. Saddam attacked Kuwait because Kuwait was taking control of an area populated with pro Iraqis? Give me a break! Do a little catching up on the facts before spewing out baseless nonsense.

BTW; USA Today/McPaper is nothing like the NY Times. What? Do you just like to draw parallels that don't exist? Yeah, keeping up with that Drudge Report and letting the like do your thinking for you really keeps you up on current events huh?

J Dawg

As if protecting pro-Russians in this region of Georgia is the only reason for Russia's actions, or even the main reason. Russian officials say its true, so it must be. Get a clue.

That's right, the two major papers are a beacon of truth and are unbiased. Once again, get a clue.

J Dawg

BTW, where on earth did I make this suggestion? Do you even know what you are quoting and replying to? Talk about drawing paralles that don't exist. Nor did I state the 2 newspapers in question are the same.