thomas malloy wrote:
Horace Heffner wrote:
On Sep 18, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Taylor J. Smith wrote:
Why would they want to start a thermonuclear war when they are
beating the pants off us economically? In another 20 years, the way
change is
The match in the tinder box is the Israeli State. Russia is allied with
the Muslims, particularly the Iranians, and the Chinese are allied with
the Russians. Hum, sounds like the alliances just before WW I, eh?
That's something we won't know until it's all been over for a long time.
The question is, are they "just friends", or have they actually signed
mutual defense treaties?
Before WWI Europe was a tangled web of mutual defense treaties and a lot
of them were secret -- it wasn't obvious that if you got into a war with
Serbia you'd automatically be at war with 2 or 3 major powers as well
within a few hours.
In the present case, Russia and China might turn out to be "fair weather
friends" to the Arabs, or they might turn out to have binding agreements
that nobody's talking about. Only way to know for sure is declare war
on Iran, and see who declares war back.
If I were Putin I'd make darn sure I signed _nothing_ binding along
those lines. That way Russia always has the option of playing the "oops
we're neutral this time" card if things get too hot. But that's just me...
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