Quote:
Originally Posted by sperbonzo
I don't understand how people can't get the difference between the US wanting to put an ANTI-missile screen up in the Ukraine, and the USSR (Oops, sorry, it's supposed to be Russia now), putting OFFENSIVE missiles in Cuba.
|
its not different at all. its the same thing. there is no difference between rending someones else's offensive capability useless by improved defensive capability or just putting more missiles in their front yard
I have two questions.
Quote:
|
1. Can't you see the difference?
|
there is no difference
Quote:
|
2. For the Americans on this board.... Are you really that uninterested in the outcome of a global conflict? Would you be cheering if the Russians sent nukes into the US and turned your friends and families into charred corpses just so that you could say, "Nyah nyah nyah! You had it coming!"??
|
What global conflict? Its about balance of power. Nothing else. There is a massive difference between a bunch of jackasses on a message board and their opinions... and major world powers, their security, national interests, political and economic objectives etc.
The Cold War was a hoax. People don't get that. The Cold War was a hoax that divided the world between two powers and forced them to align with one or the other which was about economic and political objectives, not military/national security.
Russia just slapped Georgia. why? well, in the long thread about it, i said exactly why. They want to flex some muscle because they can. They want some respect and they want to regain some of the influence in the world that they lost. Even a Russian general announced to the world just a couple days ago, exactly that "The world must now realize that Russia is a force to be reckoned with"....
it has little to do with military. It has to do with trade with others who will align themselves with them... i.e. Venuzuela, cuba, Iran, N, Korea, Libya, China etc etc etc. If you want people to fall in behind behind you.. you have to show you can lead.