http://www.breitbart.tv/html/151953.html

It was the Georgians. If we all stopped trading with Russia then Europe would suffer more than Russia would. It relies on Russia for most of its energy.

Russia was right to do what it did despite what our News media says but I think they should only "annex" the breakaway regions and not the entire country. In my opinion this is no different than what happened in Kosovo. If Georgia wanted to gain control it should have waited 40 years while telling all of the Georgians living in Ossetia and elsewhere to migrate there and have 8 children per mother and then gain control it though democracy.

Something Stephen Colbert said recently seems appropriate: Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Sure, they are only exporting "democracy" to those countries. And they will be so happy about that, that they will become best friends with USA. And USA in exchange will tie them economically.

Chinesee if you want to be pesimistic. And no, nothing important would happen. The top dog would be doing the same as you now do - spreading "democracy" and "freedom". I wonder if you know that imposed "good" is actualy evil.

In the US right now, there isn't a heck of a lot of difference.

I think they roughed you up too much at the border crossing. Sorry about that. Seriously, there's a big difference.

No one tells me who to vote for, locally or nationally either. No one fixes our votes as far as I know. It sucks pretty bad when the voting idiots outweigh the voting sane, but enough people manage to change back over to the other side once they see the way the country goes while they're in office. It's a lot better than having no choice at all like in North Korea or fixed elections somewhere else.

I had thought it was in the billions. Got about 8 now, and a "mutually assured destruction" outcome would seriously decimate the current population.

No, but theres a very good chance that human nature does.

Sure, but that's a rather inaccurate number

To me decimate says take a large portion, maybe 7/8ths, and make them disappear. "hundreds of millions" doesn't really do "7 billion" justice.

Thats just one of my reasons for what I believe. What happens when more places run out of drinkable water, farmable land and decent temperatures? Some will move, others will take. And both will cause friction.

So I should have chosen a better word

Hmm... This reminds me of what happened in the 'water fight'...

'Little country' splashes 'Big country' with red fizzy drink... 'Big country' get angry!

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Don't fuck with the country with the thermonuclear warheads... Or the hulk in this case...

This conversation is showing me how little some of you guys know about world history.

You think the current problems in the world are big right now? Tens of millions left to starve to death, millions marched into ovens for easy burial. All of this happened on the European continent and was started by people on that continent. This makes me assume that these same people will again forget the past and repeat the process. This time Europe is lucky that the USA is being more proactive by trying to halt a repeat of the same old process. Will this work, I do not know but I do think there is a better chance for you guys to survive this time with the USA looking out for yea. We do have a reason to stick our nose into europes affairs since our boys lost their lives in two world wars started over there.

The people that make up the USA are no better than anywhere else in the world but the culture and form of government is what sets us apart.

The next war will be in Europe I'm afraid since Europe continues to lapse into complacency, thinking the human condition is somehow different from 60 years ago is foolish.

Georgia was taking care of a problem area within it's own borders and Russia's borders. Russia was in the wrong but I see you are becoming a useful idiot.

South Osetia is not even a country, Georgia is. When the Russians attacked S. Osetia, they attacked Georgia. Not cool. S. Osetia does not exist.

My comment wasn't directed at you. Just something I wanted to point out.

I fail to see how wars are OK in general. Even without killing civilians. Its human nature, I guess.

With Elverion's logic it would be ok for Russia to invade california to save it from the oppressive Bush regime. South O is part of Georgia. Russia is the outsider. I read that the Russian troops were massed on the border just waiting for the slightest excuse to charge on in.