Now this is deeply disturbing.. the pawns move

Originally Posted by August

That is an amazing statement from someone whose country, along with every other world civilization, would be totally destroyed if we and the Russians ever fought it out.

"nukes blablabla" indeed... Its that kind of thinking that will be the cause of a nuclear war if it ever happens.

Again with this same ol', same ol.

The present state of affairs in the world means wars, starvation, etc. negative things to a lot of people in the world. This is the world order as it stands now. The interests of USA, some European nations (close allies of US) and maybe some Far-East Asian countries come first. Russia is not an economic powerhouse but it seems to be edging itself there, still very shaky and all over the place economically, militarily very strong.

Imagine a world where USA and Russia were either allies or they just fought it out. And instead of nukes they would fight it out traditionally. You know, they would understand that nukes would be a bad thing for everyone so they would agree not to use them. They would only use traditional weapons, no ABC. They wouldn't rely on their allies (ok I admit, this is a bit of a leap but just imagine) and would fight the war mainly over the Bering strait. It would be mostly a naval conflict so lots of boats and subs but no ballistic nukes. This would mean relatively little damage to the rest of the world at least directly from the battles themselves.

Anyway, at the end one would emerge victories but both would have been dropped down a significant notch. No longer would either of them boss the rest of the world around. The end.

Anyway, pardon me, I'm just rambling here. I shall now resume my daily "duck and cover" - drills.