Reply #38: As Churchill said . . [View All]

[Strelnikov_]

"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."

- Sir Winston Churchill


No doubt, Putin and Jintao are playing a dangerous game. A result of the US economy faltering badly could be a US version of the Nazi's gaining power (far right nationalists) ala 1932 Germany.

Basically, it's 1908 all over again, and the final Great Game for hegemony over the world's remaining petroleum (and natural gas) wealth is on.