honestly, i think the world’s gonna break as follows. Russia-China-Iran. US-Europe-Israel, and a smattering of countries such as Saudi Arabia, India and the majority of South America will play the two sides off each other to their benefit. We are returning to the bipolar days of the Cold War, but with a whole new set of players.

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On the other hand, I think it’s more likely that both China and Russia are simply playing both sides. They have been kindof going along with US hostility to Iran, while dragging their feet. Who’s to say they haven’t been quietly supporting Iran militarily more than they’ve been letting on? Doesn’t it seem logical to suppose they would?

If they HAVE been, the Georgia crisis gives Russia a very strong case for increasing that connection and for building up the Shanghai Association as a real counterbalance to the NWO complex, not just a putative counterbalance. There would be no better way to do that than by openly challenging the US’s hegemony in the Persian Gulf.

Then again, the “we are crazier than you are” card that the Bush administration seems to play so effectively is a hard one to ignore, when backed by nukes aplenty. Whatever else one can say about George W. Bush, one can say this: he gives the best impression of a guy who really WOULD push the red button than any world leader of any major country since, well, since Hitler I’d say.