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It's often beneficial to have the larger opponents momentum high for a variety of reasons;)

such terms as someone like myself :o can absorb it well.

It would seem though if I follow that line of thinking it would be very easy for things to get drawn out of control by such circumstances...

I think most could probably agree with that in part, except apparently Russia as they seem to be spending their time trying to further isolate themselves rather than figure out how to get out of the...

How likely is it that Iran might be slightly more inclined to entertain suggestions from its newly found big bro in regards to its aspirations:eek:

with ALL of that

One thing, Realpolitik vs Idealism vs Realism
Give em an inch they'll take a mile.
The interaction between international entities is all about lines and trying to redraw them for one reason or...

Doesn't it seem somewhat disingenuious that the Russian's would find it bad form for us to send in Humanitarian aid on warships considering that they and theirs are supposedly there on a...

That you can keep your ship there 21 days then leave for a day then come back for 21 more?:rolleyes:

If we're back to going to war to decide disagreements / avoid embarrassment I guess The Romans Empire is already back.:wry:

One would hope that the Russians see Hungary 1956 as well





And Hungary/ the many many other countries with similar experiences as they have been after the 80's

Is it truly realistic for...

http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/2008/p08-104e.html

Statement from NATO

so much as trying to really understand why it always seems like efforts to explain whats happening consistantly seem to focus on surrounding implications of one action or another rather than than...

And brings up more questions.

Were the Georgian forces that did this in 1991 the same as those now, or have there been some major changes?

Are Kosovo and SO/Abkhazia the same thing? If so...

After reading that I now am even more concerned about Russia's diplomacy.

If you know whats happening, you see it coming, you are supposed to be helping to settle it down, Then BLAM you have to...

Wasn't anything near what he said, just sort of the type of mental gymnastics I had in trying to accept his points about the lack of Russian overall planning in this thing. It is certain that there...

OK, Let's see if I got this right.

Ralph Peter's baaad
Information war (Liar,Liar,everybody)
Georgia basically set Russia up by starting it then rolling over quickly and retreating so fast that...

The mentality of a countries populace really is very much maintained by that which they and not those on the outside percieve as possible, doable, exceptable, and probable. With the way things have...

One thing curious about this is if they have been being trained in counter-guerilla type efforts vs large scale ops as many have said they should have been then why would they be firing artillery...

One more thing which is a fact now is that it may be almost impossible to determine what exactly Georgia did or didn't do considering that Russia immediately came in guns a blazing and almost...

In attempting to review the situation-
Is or is not SO a part of Georgia, if it is then why would anything they are doing not require at the least Russia to notify the international community of...

From Schopenhaur's " The World as Will and Idea-

I just hope the main message there is heeded where it needs to be

Sorry, I kind of left it to an assumption that it would trace back to why and How NATO got started and where and how it has progressed

http://www.nato.int/issues/enlargement/index.html

which...

Of course that could be because I'm an American:D



Directly from the NATO website



Also from NATO site Nato Partnerships

The question that comes to mind is if one looks at the situation the one country that provided more troops than anyone besides UK to help us and yet?

NATO didn't let em in?

NATO is in what...