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Two days ago I had the bad luck to read the article A scripted war written by the Economist journal, the printed edition of 10-11th August. It’s the first time that I’ve read an article on the journal that I consider strongly and outrageously biased. The international press clearly stated that it was Georgia that fired up the tension in the area, by taking over N. Ossettia. There is no doubt about that. The mentioned article bypasses that, without clarifying who’s fault provoke the escalation in an already dangerous area.

It’s clear that the USA pushed Georgia into this lunacy. Russia’s military action was unexpected for most of the foreign policy analysts although, Putin had predicted an issue about S. Ossettia when Kosovo received a graceful independence considering how rules apply to similar situations. Putin at the time had stated that, he is against the independence of Kosovo but that he will not interfere, nor politically nor military, but he will not accept in any way a similar resolution for North or South Ossettia.

I don’t believe that the Economist is a pseudo-libertarian journal, but I was stroked by the luck of judgement and the biased opinion about USA and Georgia in the escalation. Maybe Russia put fear into every single country it borders, but it was clearly on the defensive here.

Another thing that I fail to understand is how many analysts find positive the installation of missiles in Poland and Czech Republic while they don’t want to know about anti-missile installation system in Cuba. Or you don’t want to know about either, or you just accept that Russia is not Iraq. It’s not going to be an American Puppy. Other statements I’ve read in the comments of the above article, are really naive and show the low level of most readers. I thought that there was a moderator, moderating idiotic comments. Probably there is not: Saying that a country like Russia controls “only the energy sector” is naive to say the least. If a country controls energy and information, controls the world. It can buy army and weapons. I’m not a war policy expert and I don’t know how ready is the Russian army to face a war or a USA army. I can’t say if they are going to win a second cold war, but Putin is for sure, much more capable than G. W. Bush, at least he has an opinion of his own and Russia has very very strong allies, who would like to see the USA going down all over the world. China will stand next to Russia and it’s enough to create a fearful opponent already. The EU is not united in these matters, the European countries are divided because they have different interests. I don’t believe that any sane human being would like to see escalation’s rising between Russia and the USA. But the country that should keep it down is not Russia for sure. It’s the USA that should change their foreign bullying policy. Installing an anti-Russian missile system in Poland wont help. If I’d be Poland I would be much more worried if my Government installs these missiles than if it doesn’t. If you don’t act aggressively against the “Bear” I don’t believe that it will attack you. While if something goes wrong and Poland would have to face Russia, I believe that it will be brought down to zero in no time and the USA would be too far and away in order to help them. As the did in Georgia, Mr. Mikheil Saakashvili was backed up by the USA after his troops were spoiled and Tbilisi face extermination. The villages near the borders suffered from Russian rides, where were the UN and the USA? This is not Iraq or a Taliban clan countries are dealing with.

I don’t want to see any of the above scenario taking place. I’d like to see prosperity peace and regulation taking place everywhere. But as Chomsky put’s in his book Failed States that I happened to read lately, if the USA foreign policy would not stop escalating tensions all over the world, a nuclear war in the next future, is not an unreal scenario.

A nice video to clarify the situation from a USA citizen, one again it’s not Russia that has to calm down, it’s the USA that everyone should try to calm down. Here is Joe: