pdq - Go and look at a new thread Amos started about new war maneuvers in the Middle East. Interesting stuff to ponder.

I agree with you that we are on the eve of what could be the most serious confrontation with Russia since the Cuban missile crisis, we are on the eve of what may be the worst war ever seen, but the thing in Georgia is just a sideshow, in my opinion. The overall crisis in the world now has been provoked by the USA and Britain's attempts to secure control of all the oil in the Middle East and Caspian region...their next objective being to bring down the Iranian regime.

Russia is responding to that, as they must, and China will also eventually respond to it, as they must, but Russia and China have not provoked it. It has been provoked by neocon planners in the USA and Great Britain.

The problem is, pdq, you're living in the country that is the primary instigator and aggressor this time around if a great war happens. I don't expect you to get that. Most Germans didn't get it in '39 either. They thought they were defending Germany. They were naturally loyal to their own land and assumed that their government was in the right. Most people do that and they never question why.

If we happen to live through it, you might be surprised by what follows...

If we don't, well, c'est la vie.