Ready ! Aim ! Fire !

[flyingimam]

oh well, Israel didnt exist b4 world war II and now rules mid east! and no can do much about it !! no matter how much they hate it, its there for good. dynamics change sometimes and no1 can do anything about it except the designer(s)

regarding georgia, things go way back to WWII era and one must truly study the history nad geopolitical history of an area before passing judgment.

kinda like the situation Texas had many years ago with the union. but that one got resolved and had to be resolved cuz of the geopolitical situation of the time. However, this one and in 21st century it "doesn't have to" to be solved in the traditional way everyone thinks it should. after all it has not even been more than 20 years since Soviet union fell apart and some major wars/conflicts and claims of independence have taken place in this time: Bosnia, Czechoslovakia, Chechnya, etc...

these things are expected after such fall outs and i expect even more to come in future years until the situation settles, still many older national territories of many sovereign countries are under similar situations but since they have been "established" as national terriroies for many years now, its much harder for any country to pull such move as russia did on them

think of some: Kurdistan (an area between Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria)
Basque area of spain
Kashmir (India, Afghanistan, Pakistan)
there are more, just use google

i bet if one day the current governmental system of America fails for any reason-god forbid-, Texas will be the first to declare independence, Hawaii and Alaska will be next :P and then u may have similar type of problems with Mexico backing Texas and/or Russia or Australia backing other mentioned areas, just a hypothetical!

[theforthdrive]

didnt russia do this in the 1950's.... cuban missle crisis? I know that nukes off shore may not equal a defense shield... but Im sure the russian point of view is you say defense missile shield, I say missile!

[flyingimam]

didnt russia do this in the 1950's.... cuban missle crisis? I know that nukes off shore may not equal a defense shield... but Im sure the russian point of view is you say defense missile shield, I say missile!

i have to agree. viewpoint matters, we tend to only see the world from our own most of the time... generally speaking all of us regarding whatever subject, not just America as a country/government to the rest of the world, thats just one instance