Isn't this scary????

Question

Im watching the History Channel, and its about the Cold War. and they said that the Red Army could of took Berlin in Days, and West Germany in Weeks, and they probally could took Rest of Eourpe, Just thinking what they could of done, but they didnt....And happening right now( I mean This YEAR ) Russia invaded Georgia ( not the US )

So I just want to know your thoughts about that.. Both Happening now and Back then about the cold war, and Georgia

Answer 1

Yeah it is. Then again having Bush in the White House is far more scary. The Russians will stay on their side as they did during the cold war.

Ever since the USSR was dissolved the US has been provoking and disrespecting Russia, undermining their interests and refusing real alliances that were on the table at one point. Early after the cold war Russia wanted to become a member of NATO themselves but Washington soon made it very clear that wasn't an option. Ever since the US kept treating Russia as a second class country and most of all as a competitor and certainly not a friend. That Russia finally had enough of that arrogant American attitude is only logical. In the conflict with Georgia Russia protected Russians after Georgia attacked them. Russia send a clear message their influence is the region will not be marginalized without a fight. Georgia killed 2000 innocent civilians and at least ten Russian peace keepers before the Russians reacted.

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?optio...

"We Americans consider the Monroe Doctrine – no foreign power is to come into our hemisphere – to be holy writ. Why, then, can we not understand why Russia might react angrily to our interference in her politics or the politics of former Russian republics?

The effect of U.S. expansion of NATO deep into Eastern Europe, U.S. interference in the politics of the former Soviet republics, and U.S. siting of military bases in the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia has been to unite Russia and China, and undo the diplomacy of several successive U.S. presidents.

How has this made us more secure?

If we don't want these people in our backyard, what are we doing in theirs? If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire. " Pat Buchanan warned in 2006. The Neocon cabal should have payed attention.

http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=89...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Washington has followed a policy of systematically encroaching on former Soviet territory to establish a string of military bases and governments friendly to the US. The purpose of this policy was to undermine the influence of Russia in the energy-rich regions of central Asia, while seeking to divide and weaken Europe.

The consequences of Washington’s intervention in the former Soviet bloc have included the installation of a number of authoritarian regimes which lack any genuine broad popular base such as those of Mikheil Saakashvili in Georgia and Viktor Yushchenko in the Ukraine, as well as the regime in Poland. The most common characteristics of these administrations are rabid anti-communism, national chauvinism, contempt for genuine democratic processes and an unwavering adherence to the precepts of the free market.

Such regimes are inherently unstable, both internally and in relation to their neighbours. Now, the US administration has agreed to install a new weapons system in Poland directed against its biggest neighbour, while at the same time guaranteeing to come to the military assistance of the Polish government when necessary. This is a recipe for new conflict and war. Nothing could more clearly express the utter recklessness of US foreign policy.

Russia’s intervention over the past two decades in the states of the former Soviet Union - as in its brutal war in Chechnya — have been of a reactionary character and should be condemned, but there cannot be the least doubt that the main power intent on establishing new power blocs and spheres of influence in the region is the US.

Answer 2

They have an advantage with us being locked down in Iraq and Afghanistan.  They have spent sometime rebuilding their capabilities and with oil at high prices they are seeing some profits again to spend on that military.

Answer 3

That IS scary. I've been thinking about that too. I've always thought Russia was pretty ruthless.