The US and Russia - are they getting close to direct conflict ?

Question

Russia is attacked by Georgia Russian peace keepers are killed

Russia responds with overwhelming force

The US denounces it and makes every attempt to paint Russia as the unprovoked aggressor

Bush demands a retreat the Russian say forget about getting these Privinces back they want our protection and Georgia can not force them to re-join

But the US reports only that Russian tanks refuse to retreat

The US sends humanitarian aid to Georgia with a military ship and planes to the middle of a nation in an active combat zone

Is this the set up for conflict with Russia ? If an American is killed by either a Georgian or a Russian - it would be blamed on Russia

If an American gets killed will that be the start of a war between them ?

The US could have sent in another NATO ally they chose not to

It seems that the US wants a war with Russia - I hope I am wrong

Is the US and Russia getting closer to direct conflict with each other and if so - what is the likelihood of nuclear war ?

Answer 1

US doesn't want to fight with Russia. They want Russia fights with smb. Typical american wants world war without America

Answer 2

No, not direct conflict.  But it figures you would think Russia is the innocent one here.

Answer 3

Russia is the agressor I mean come on they invaded with 3 divisions over 50000 men and 1000 tank to get those kind of forces lined up on the border it would have took at the least a month......they were planing it for weeks and they jsut happened to invade the same day as the olympics?...Georgia was set up from the start......

Now the studd about US/NATO involvment the US ahs stated it will not get involved with our military however I would like to see US/NATO involvment....the media likes to make it seem like the US has no troops to deploy but we have over 400000 troops all across Europe that we could easily deploy to help Georgia but were not going to anytime soon why? because again different from what the media says we are Americans arn't warmongers....

Also if theis does esclate it will most likley not go nuclear because the Russians arn't stupid they know they nuke us we nuke them back twice as much....

Answer 4

No, Russia would back down way before then.  The US and its eastern European allies would thrash Russia if they had to go at it. No Nuke war, the Russians are rational and is why the nuclear mutual assured destruction strategy worked so well in the cold war.    

Answer 5

Russia is scared of the United States and the west needs Russia's oil and gas so we couldn't attack but a cold war is more likely.

Craig.

Answer 6

Hi I'm A1C McQueen USAF,

The possibility of us going to war with Russia is at a 40% chance as of now we the air force are on alert, i am stationed in Wyoming (nuclear base) and we are on stand bye. and must be able to responded to any thing in a 5 minute time frame..all i can say is we are ready for conflict, but i assure you that the Russians are just playing a mental game with the U.S. and NATO members, they wanna show there military capabilities to the world don't get caught up in the media. but we the military are ready for any action from any country, by order of our Pres. Bush.