Another Global War?

[lordocelot]

It is evident that many countries through out the world are not happy with America getting involved in Iraq and Afghanistan. Relations with Russia are continuing to go down hill with their president and Chinese authorites openly supporting Iran and its ability to fund nuclear weapons.

It seems countries are discreetly shuffling to diffrent sides and with the latest fighting going on in Georgia; is it to unrealistic to believe that we are on the verge of another war? We all know that all the United nations can do is give sanctions, and we also know this wont stop anybody from doing what they want to do. But the main players do seem to be U.S, China, and Russia.

With Vladimir Putin, the former russia president, russia- China relations were at their peek. And with Russia's new president, it seems that the two sides will only strengthen, it seems that Russia now focuses as much east as it does west. Wanting to become a EuroAsia power like it was during the reign of the Soviet Union.

These three countries seem inable to agree on many important matters including terrorism, nuclear weapons, european defenses and democracies near the Russian borders such as Georgia, as well as middle eastern affairs.

Now some might think i am getting carried away by saying that we are drawing close to another world war but this is how the second war started. Slowly Germany, Japan, and Italy began doing what they wanted, before dropping out of the United nations and starting a war.

Here are a few articles that vary on a few topics involving Russia, America, and China

www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0516015220080205

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,400841,00.html

news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/19/content_8205881.htm

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303097,00.html

80th post rock on!!!!!

[Ayin Tsade]

Doesn't help that the US is also competing directly with Russia for oil. Gazprom and all that. Also, because of our completely ineffectual Congress, which I have been miffed at since about 2006 (probably should have been longer), the US is not building any nuclear plants. Meanwhile, our potential enemies are going headlong into nuclear power.

And no, it's not such a shot in the dark for another war. Venezuela and Russia and pulling a "force copy-paste" from the Cuba-Soviet Union pact, and we've all known the Russians have censored anything about the war with Georgia, including killing that one reporter lady who investigated it.

Real question: why on earth isn't Europe pissed as anything about what its eurasian neighbor is doing? Why is the UN so freaking useless? It's like Sakura from Naruto, only a whole collaboration of suck put together.

Just you watch. Should war break out, Europe will point fingers at the US, saying our "aggressive" tendencies screwed them over. Even though we pay for their useless UN, went to them asking for help and received none, and even though we're spending money to put missiles in east Europe to defend their useless asses when maybe we ought not even bother.

European governments suck.