Cold War mentality?

CCIP · 12-16-07, 02:57 AM

Same questions here, I think. I think the Russians, in their usual senseless fashion, are just warning of the "worst case misidentification" scenario. Mind you, even in the cold war they were far more careful with that red button in practice than feared.

That said, who's surprised to see Russia flexing their muscle again and being mistrustful of others? If anything this mentality well pre-dates the Cold War.

JALU3 · 12-16-07, 03:46 AM

The West has always looked towards Moscow and St. Petersburg with a sence of foreboding and hesitation . . . all the way back to when it back to the days of the Czars . . . nothing new there.
It's just from my perspective I fear a new Warsaw Pact replacement possibly coming from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation . . . with Communist China (as opposed to Democratic China (Republic of China)), Russia . . . and with a possible future member being Iran . . . if that ever happens . . . and if tensions continue to mount . . . back to a bi-polar international world . . . as I don't think it would be very multi-polar with two big organizations existing again.

12-16-07, 02:57 AM	#1
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Same questions here, I think. I think the Russians, in their usual senseless fashion, are just warning of the "worst case misidentification" scenario. Mind you, even in the cold war they were far more careful with that red button in practice than feared. That said, who's surprised to see Russia flexing their muscle again and being mistrustful of others? If anything this mentality well pre-dates the Cold War. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

12-16-07, 03:46 AM	#2
JALU3 Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2007 Location: 11SMS 98896 10565 Posts: 756 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	The West has always looked towards Moscow and St. Petersburg with a sence of foreboding and hesitation . . . all the way back to when it back to the days of the Czars . . . nothing new there. It's just from my perspective I fear a new Warsaw Pact replacement possibly coming from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation . . . with Communist China (as opposed to Democratic China (Republic of China)), Russia . . . and with a possible future member being Iran . . . if that ever happens . . . and if tensions continue to mount . . . back to a bi-polar international world . . . as I don't think it would be very multi-polar with two big organizations existing again. __________________ "The Federation needs men like you, doctor. Men of conscience. Men of principle. Men who can sleep at night... You're also the reason Section Thirty-one exists -- someone has to protect men like you from a universe that doesn't share your sense of right and wrong." -Sloan, Section Thirty-One