Right now, Russia is going to kick the shit out of Georgia unless someone steps in. Please god let it not be the United States.
Except the sad part is we'd be the most likely force to step in. Even if the UN decides to do something that likely means the US will be doing something, as we are pretty much the controlling body of the UN.
It's a good thing all our troops are fully funded, armed, and ready to go and not tied up in some unnecessary war dreamed up by republicans and oil companies to grab another countries resources.
He's trying real hard to resurrect the Soviet/US cold war
Why do that?
Because as Magnum_Opus put it, the USSR has been romanticized almost to an extreme, even in North America where most people hated the USSR and would have for large chunks of their lives liked nothing better then to have seen a preemptive strike carried out against them.
I think it'd be because then the government would have even more control, but that works too. The popular opinion of the red and yellow would only serve to have people not outcrying around the world as much.
Still I don't think a communist state would last that long. This new age of information would keep people inside know whether or not their conditions were better or worse than the people outside. Thus if conditions became too terrible then there would be revolt.
On the other hand, since this is the age of information there could be better infrastructure so a communist state might work.
However, while Page answered "why a new Soviet state" - though honestly, I really can't see how this romanticization you refer to could really outweigh anti-communist sentiment, no-one answered "why a cold war".
"Russia has invaded a sovereign neighboring state and threatens a democratic government elected by it's people. Such an action is unacceptable in the 21st century." - George W. Bush
"This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia where Russia can threaten it's neighbors, occupy a capitol, overthrow it's government and get away with it. Things have changed." - Condoleezza Rice
"In the 21st century, nations don't invade other nations." - John McCain
Didn't GWB look into Putin's eyes and see that Putin has a good soul?
"This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia where Russia can threaten it's neighbors, occupy a capitol, overthrow it's government and get away with it. Things have changed." - Condoleezza Rice
I wasn't really trying to create a comparison between the Iraq invasion and the invasion of Georgia but rather trying to point out the double standard and "hypocrisy" of the Bush administration and John McCain, as well as that the Bush Administration practically admitting their wrongdoing in the Iraq invasion.
The Kremlin moved swiftly to tighten its grip on Georgia’s breakaway regions yesterday as South Ossetia announced that it would soon become part of Russia, which will open military bases in the province under an agreement to be signed on Tuesday.
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Still I don't think a communist state would last that long. This new age of information would keep people inside know whether or not their conditions were better or worse than the people outside. Thus if conditions became too terrible then there would be revolt.
On the other hand, since this is the age of information there could be better infrastructure so a communist state might work.
It all seems to be on the blade of a knife.
However, while Page answered "why a new Soviet state" - though honestly, I really can't see how this romanticization you refer to could really outweigh anti-communist sentiment,
no-one answered "why a cold war".
And I don't really notice an anti-communist sentiment, it might be because I'm part of generation Y.
"This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia where Russia can threaten it's neighbors, occupy a capitol, overthrow it's government and get away with it. Things have changed." - Condoleezza Rice
"In the 21st century, nations don't invade other nations." - John McCain
Iraq anyone?
Bush said that Putin was a man of integrity and Putin said about Bush that:
'Brother Wolf knows whom to eat'
I think Putin's comment wins.
@Chaosof99: To Bush's credit on your first quote I do not believe that Saddam Hussein was elected democratically.