The Cold War Redux

It looks like the Cold War II is reviving up and it could mean bad news for everyone. But, first, let’s analyze how things are currently going down and what we might expect in the future.

First, relations between Russia and the West began to get conflicted when they backed Iran and said they

Is a Cold War 2 on the rise?

weren’t trying to develop nuclear weapons. That wasn’t a good sign. Second, when America began to develop agreements through NATO (specifically former Soviet nations) to make SDI fenses along their borders. That didn’t make Russia too happy.

Now, Russia decides to invade Georgia on a “peacekeeping mission”. However, after a cease-fire is declared, they still have not left Georgia like they agreed. In fact, they continued to move forward and even comandeered some US humvee’s. At this point in time, they have yet to move their forces away from Georgia. During all of this, Medvedev said, “Mess with us and we will crush you.” Even a Russian general threatened to use Nuke’s on Poland if America signs the SDI Defense program with them (poor Poland, why are they always a target?). Well, Condi went ahead and signed it with Poland today. Which, let’s be honest, probably isn’t making Russia very happy either. The latest I read was Norway stating that Russia is removing all military ties from NATO.

Russia knows we have our hands tied in Afghanistan and Iraq, so they know they have the upper hand right now and can do what we want. They are obviously flexing some muscle and thumbing their noses at the West. So, it seems they are back to their old games.

In political terms, I think this is seriously going to help McCain in the upcoming election. If Russia continues to do what they do best and another Cold War returns, then we are definitely going to see McCain prosper. This, however, is really bad news for America and for the world. We are just barely creeping our way out of Iraq and are still fighting the war on Terror, we don’t need another Cold War.

Just to step back and put things in perspective, I think we have to realize a few minor details that may stave off another Cold War. First, our economy is much different than it was even back in the 50’s. We are much more global now and every nation is becoming more and more dependent on each other for trade, etc…the West is much more economically stable than Russia (at least for right now). They would be pretty stupid to start cutting ties with the West in that way. Second, if America can start working to get off of foreign oil, we could seriously help our national security and put ourselves in a good position against our enemies by not funding their own economies. Third, and the most important I believe, is that this could just be a heated moment in history that fizzles. That tends to happen a lot and there have been tons of statements in the past about a returning Cold War. You never really know if it will actually happen, but it is always good to keep your eyes peeled.

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Endangered Species Act

http://http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/08/11/bush.endangered.species.ap/index.html

Wow is all I can say.  When I first read this it was the number one story on CNN.com.  Probably because nothing else big is going on in the world.  Luckily WWIII isn’t starting in Georgia (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402043,00.html), and a certain former democratic presidential candidate didn’t just get caught for cheating on his cancer ridden wife (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,401462,00.html).  Thankfully a soldier didn’t just die in Afghanistan (http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/), and I’m very glad that a little boy was not just murdered by his step dad while his mother watched because he didn’t say amen (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402004,00.html). And too bad gas prices aren’t falling like crazy all across the country (http://www.foxbusiness.com/furl/story/markets/industries/energy/gas-prices-fall-nationwide/).  If only any of those things were happening so the beloved CNN folks would have something to report on other than the President deciding to give federal animal protection decisions to individual federal agencies rather than congress.  Forget about how much easier this will make it for us to get things accomplished, such as bridges that stand up, oil to keep gas prices dropping, etc.

Seriously, sometimes I just do not understand human beings.  We freak out because of a possible change to something that might or might not harm some animals, but Georgian’s are dying by the thousands, and our soldiers are dying, and our citizens are being murdered at the Olympics, and all we can talk about is a stupid animal Act.  It’s disgusting.

I love the headline of that article about the animals too. “BUSH COULD WEAKEN”…. my gosh, let’s all cry because a polar bear has to move a litte further north to find ice.  Last time I checked there is plenty of it left.  Also, I love how they use the example of the polar bear.  Losing it’s ice has absolutely nothing to do with the Endangered Species Act or anything it has ever done, they blame it on “Global Warming,” which doesn’t exist and is now called Global Climate Change by most scientists.  But hey… Al Gore thinks he invented the internet, so he obviously is someone we should believe has scientific knowledge none of us can understand, right?

Finally, I have to say… if a freaking cat goes extinct to keep our countries economy afloat (which by the way is still the best in the world regardless of how many people freak out about it) I think I’m ok with that.  Now, I believe these federal agencies should, and would still be careful to keep animals as safe as possible, but seriously, I’m more worried about humans dying than an animal.

Just remember everyone, the dodo bird died off and we all survived.

God bless,

kingdaved

War! The Russian-Georgian Conflict

No doubt many of you may have heard about the recent news. What started out as a small conflict ended up becoming a full on war between Russia and Georgia, and no doubt Russia is winning. Initially Russia came in stating that they were keeping the peace between Georgia and South Ossetia. Putin is even quoted saying that he hopes the bloodshed will stop immediately. Unfortunately, Georgia asked for a cease-fire and to start negotations. Russia refused and continued to attack.

The results have been catastrophic and it doesn’t seem as if it is going to stop anytime soon. Bush has made comments stating that Russia may intend to overthrow the Georgian governement. If that is so, then there will be a full on international crisis.

Georgia sought independence in the 1990’s from Russia and gained it, but all it brought about was civil war. South Ossetia is a by-product of that, and their intentions have always been to unite to Russia. Georgia, naturally, has not been too keen on that happening. These tensions have led to the current war going on right now.