Bump!
Your'e preaching to the choir here.
Its the White House which still hasn't learned its lessons. Just not very energetic at protecting America's long term technological vitality...
Posted on 08/25/2008 11:47:31 AM PDT by homeguard
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It would be cool to arm and train the former Soviet bloc countries to invade Russia.
Not so sure about that Jeff. I do not think Putin is acting alone on this one.Is he orchestrating it, most definitely, but, he seems to have the ear of others. I for one think this conflict will escalate especialy after the statement earlier from Moscow about reinvading if Georgia military reorganizes. There is far more going on than what we are told.
You sure? He seems to have a pretty firm grip on power, especially after he restructered the Russian Government to accomodate his switching from Pres to PM
this could get interesting with the space industry. the US needs to push hard for private, US based space flight. There’s a little company out there that has the Dream Chaser, which is an original NASA design of a small version of the shuttle.
www.spacedev.com
Depending on Russia for manned space flight is a bad idea.
Yes he has a firm grip on power, and yes this is a part of a bigger game. But, ultimately these moves and what they lead to are going to bring more and more isolation and harship to the Russian people and sooner or later it will catch up to Putin and his cronies.
That would be about half of all of Georgia.
Guess it would be too much to expect a little help from our British counterparts huh? They’re too busy cowtowing to the Muslims in their country to realize just how threatened their own little Isle really is!
Well, if America was looking for a reason to bring the military back to world strength, from when Clintoon gutted it in the 90s, I think we have it. Unless Hussein wins, in which case we aren’t going to do anything for the breakaway republics.
Western europe is just adopting the same rules their muslim sharia law brothers do. Blame the person that gets raped, not the rapist.
Bump!
Your'e preaching to the choir here.
Its the White House which still hasn't learned its lessons. Just not very energetic at protecting America's long term technological vitality...
Oh, I agree.
I think as winter approaches for Europe, we will see all kinds of chits called in by Russia, including those in Iran and Venezuela.
Another tri-legged Axis is forming.
Russia could use winter's cold again, as it has in the past, to squash opposition from its Gazprom-dependent European neighbors.
It could gain points from the Muslim world by coordinating that with anti-blasphemy laws.
Anatli Golitsyn, a KGB defector, wrote two books in the 1980s warning of the resurgence of Russia and Communism, New Lies for Old and The Perestoika Deception.
We may be seeing the implemetation of a long term strategy.
They just might decide that he's bad for business.
Putin and the Siloviki Clan I believe were the right hand block in 2007. The Technocrats being led by Medvedev I believe were in the left block. There is also some rivalry between Gazprom and Rosneft (energy giants). At the end of 2007 some thought that the Medvedev Technocrats (more classically liberal) would be able to assert power from Putin, but now it looks as if the Putin Siloviki Clan has established itself supreme. My guess is that with Western Investment falling, Birthrates falling and Oil Production falling, the Siloviki have convinced the Technocrats that the time for Conquer and Conquest is at hand.
Betcha THAT gives the Ruskies a chill.
Cheers!
What we have to really be concerned about is a resurgence of Russia/Argentina/Cuba influence in the Caribbean with a huge influx of naval and air resources right on our own doorstep. Much of our military hardware is in the ME and tied down there.
In the Pacific we can expect a renewed initiative on the part of China to increase its military hegemony over Taiwan, and the general areas all the way from the Philippines up to North Korea.
We have all this to face along with the strategic control of large swaths of South America coastal regions, central America and the Mediterranean, where the Russian fleet has a renewed presence in order to threaten Israel should it attack Iran.
The Iran question needs to be settled very soon, and the Russians are forcing our hand there, or pushing the Israelis to do what they must, and have us cover their backs and tie us down.
This is no time to even think about electing an idiot , non military experienced team like Obama/Biden. They would be in so far over their heads that they might just push the button.
So we have priorities to set, and we also must depend on our allies more than ever, especially,Canada, Australia, Japan and NATO. If these nations do not awaken to the strategic necessity of cranking up their militaries now in the next few months, then we will become sorely tried.
Georgia, is just a side show, the opening side show nonetheless, but we will likely see far more strategic ramifications closer to home than we would possibly have thought before Georgia.
Our continued influence around the world very much depends on our alliences, and they had better cop to a whole new world. That world has just flipped again. The Islamofascists concerns pale in comparison to the breadth of our new strategic concerns.
Not to say gloom and doom. We just have a lot more work to do now than we ever could have thought a month ago.
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