Like I said before in the other post. Russia bombed Poti, and is massing Navy in the black sea, for a war of attrition.

PROFANE LANGUAGE IN USE!

Do you think that they will stop? With Russia attacking from the black sea?

I think not. Thats the problem, here is there is to much bullshit from both state run medias, and not enough fact.

Yes civilians are dieing, as they always do, thats how a war of civilian attrition works, but it fails. The blitzkrieg didn't work, should they expect any less?

The Washington post is showing it as Russian aggression.

Russian bombers attacked Poti, thats not even close to South Ossetia.

But none of that matters, because as far as I'm concerned any one who thinks war is an answer is a twizzledick(coinage). I had some one near and dear to me say that war is good in that it thins the population out. Any one who has never been in a fight for their lives will spout shit like that out their blow hole.

The next time some one says that a war is a good thing ill say "Good then go fight in it."

* Black Sea Event of 2007

* Niigata Earthquake (Japan) 2007

* Myanmar Cyclone - May 3, 2008

* China Earthquake - May 12, 2008

Petty tyrants are useful ,and the people of Iran mean nothing to those who would use them to set up the scenario they are working....when a message needs sending nowadays, they can do it with out buwwets or pwains....

This type of reporting/interview is cancerous...

update: taiwan recognised kosovo's independence yesterday and made china very angry seems like kosovo will be the next, european taiwan since this issue again divided the EU countries... who knows, maybe that's why the US put so much diplomatic effort into making kosovo an independent entity - it's always nice to have some leverage with your competitors... but i'm more interested in what will this mean for serbia since the nationalists are very strong there (serbians despite starting and eventualy loosing the 90s balkan wars didn't go through the same catharsis as the germans did after the fall of 3rd reich, the hague court can't even begin to compare with the nuremburg trials after the WW2 although the hague war crime tribunal was meant to be exactly it). i think the US made balkan it's playground back in the 90s, an expirement like the Mid-East. it's potential strategic value is great, since it covers the entrance from Mediterranean to the Black Sea and is also a buffer zone between the west and islam. US seeks control over the region cause of Caspian oil and whatever else it can squeeze out of it in the process - it's as simple as that. the old oil economy must be sustained for another decade or two for the US to survive it's own brutal economic policy. the only thing that for the moment keeps the dollar money machine going is US's military supremacy and this expansionist politics they run since before WW1. the problem is US has grown from a playground bully to a black trenchcoat kid with yielding a fucking shotgun...

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For me it comes down to nature/nurture. Are humans hard-wired for selfishness? Do we require the invisible hand of the market economy to keep things going? I hope not - but then Marx, Lenin, Guevera etc hoped not too. They also believed in the "oneness" of the people.

The experiment of communism failed precisely because human nature climbed into their beautiful machine and gummed up the works. Dachas on the black sea, Zil limos for party cronies. So much for "to each according to their needs".

I'm not a communist - but the abject failure of communism really depresses me. I'm waiting for the robots to take over- we need to take humans and our selfish, monkey-brains out of the equation.