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Post by freckles on Aug 16, 2008 22:07:04 GMT -5
Russa knocked them over like in a chess game
They were a Pawn knocked over
Yet the knocked over Pawn wants to be * Not took over
Russa keeps signing Treaties
And ignoring them
Russa has killed thousands of people there
And there are rumers they are killing all the Men in some towns
They are Screwed
The Cold War is back
Wake up and smell the Coffie
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Post by soupnazi on Aug 16, 2008 23:23:41 GMT -5
I think it will be interesting to see if NATO, and / or the US, does anything more than give lip service to this issue...as much as I want to believe that "we" would do anything about this...I can't help but think that since it isn't Iraq, it isn't Afghanistan, it isn't a hot spot in the presidential race...they will be left swinging in the wind.
OR...it will conveniently become a presidential race issue and one of the candidates will heroically broker a deal and save the world. :-)
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Post by Mel (cherry) on Aug 17, 2008 7:32:08 GMT -5
Isn't there pipelines running thru Georgia that Europe depends on? Sounds like that would be something important......... And with the kind of race being run this year..........I'm gonna have to go for the save-the-world option. I just can't see it not being used................. It's a shame isn't it?
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Post by redskyatnight on Aug 18, 2008 8:25:43 GMT -5
The Cold War was so much more than one country invading another and suggesting that it has started again is similiar to the propaganda that was used during that time. The invasion of one country hardly qualifies as the definition of the Cold War. Cold War is the term used to describe the state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s. Throughout this period, rivalry between the two superpowers was expressed through military coalitions, propaganda, espionage, weapons development, industrial advances, and competitive technological development, e.g., the space race. Both superpowers engaged in costly defense spending, a massive conventional and nuclear arms race, and numerous proxy wars. In the absence of a declared war between the US and the Soviet Union, the rival states participated in a half-century of military buildup and political battles for support around the world. These activities included the significant involvement of allied and satellite nations in local "third party" wars. Although the US and the Soviet Union had been allied against the Axis powers, the two sides differed on how to reconstruct the postwar world even before the end of World War II. During the following decades, the Cold War spread beyond Europe to every region of the world, as the US sought the "containment" and "rollback" of communism and forged myriad alliances to this end, particularly in Western Europe and the Middle East. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union fostered Communist movements around the world, particularly in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia. The Cold War period was characterized by international crises such as the Berlin Blockade (1948–49), the Korean War (1950–53), the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Vietnam War (1959–1975), the Soviet-Afghan War (1979–89), and especially the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world came to the brink of a Third World War. The last such crisis moment was during NATO exercises in November 1983. The Cold War era also witnessed periods of reduced tension as both sides sought détente. Direct military attacks on adversaries were deterred by the potential for mutual assured destruction using deliverable nuclear weapons. The Cold War drew to a close in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. With the coming to power of US President Ronald Reagan, the US increased diplomatic, military, and economic pressure on the Soviet Union. In the second half of the 1980's, newly appointed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced perestroika and glasnost. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, leaving the United States as the sole superpower in a unipolar world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
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Post by freckles on Aug 18, 2008 13:52:54 GMT -5
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Post by Phyxius on Aug 18, 2008 19:18:13 GMT -5
Well, they're responsible for child support, then...
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Post by Mel (cherry) on Aug 18, 2008 19:25:59 GMT -5
Well, they're responsible for child support, then...
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Post by Phyxius on Aug 19, 2008 12:06:02 GMT -5
The Cold War was so much more than one country invading another and suggesting that it has started again is similiar to the propaganda that was used during that time. The invasion of one country hardly qualifies as the definition of the Cold War. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_WarTrying to explain the subtleties of Russo-American politics and tensions to Freck is like trying to describe the color red to a blind man. He's just not equipped to get it...
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Post by Phyxius on Aug 19, 2008 12:07:46 GMT -5
Well, they're responsible for child support, then... What can I say? As d2b would say -- the dragon is in rare form right now... Congrats, BTW...
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Post by redskyatnight on Aug 19, 2008 12:15:51 GMT -5
The Cold War was so much more than one country invading another and suggesting that it has started again is similiar to the propaganda that was used during that time. The invasion of one country hardly qualifies as the definition of the Cold War. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_WarTrying to explain the subtleties of Russo-American politics and tensions to Freck is like trying to describe the color red to a blind man. He's just not equipped to get it... Agreed - I guess I'm under the delusion that everyone can learn. I take that back, I still think everyone can learn if they want to learn. Brick walls aren't interested in anything other than what is already in their head.
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Post by Mel (cherry) on Aug 19, 2008 12:19:04 GMT -5
What can I say? As d2b would say -- the dragon is in rare form right now... Congrats, BTW... Thanks hun!!
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Post by JimB on Aug 19, 2008 13:32:23 GMT -5
Brick walls aren't interested in anything other than what is already in their head. Where's the head?
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Post by freckles on Aug 19, 2008 14:06:04 GMT -5
Small People make fun of others
They think it makes them look Bigger than they really are
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Post by Phyxius on Aug 19, 2008 14:15:22 GMT -5
And fools think\speak in uninformed absolutes...
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Post by redskyatnight on Aug 19, 2008 14:29:50 GMT -5
Small People make fun of others They think it makes them look Bigger than they really are I agree with your statement, but I am not making fun of you. You started this thread and suggested that the Cold War was beginning again. Statements like that and the one you posted a few days prior ( hugthat.proboards100.com/index.cgi?board=soapbox&action=display&thread=1528) have the potential to invoke fear in anyone who reads them. That amounts to terrorism and as a white, female, church-going, non-addicted US citizen, I don't like terrorism.
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