What's With Russia 2

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080815/
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The Russian General's nuclear threat to Poland makes the whole world feel like it did during the Cold War. There is a statement that both Mao Tse Tung and Stalin agreed upon. "If you push your bayonet in and it meets resistance pull back but if it meets no resistance keep pushing until you meet resistance." If you meet no resistance ever then you have conquered the world.

Understanding this basic Totalitarian and communist philosophy is the basis of where things are in the world right now. The hard liners and ex-KGB like Putin smell the weakness of the United States both as an army tired of fighting and as an economy on the fritz. They might just start taking back all the old Soviet countries that are now independent and free. The only method of stopping them might be threatening a nuclear war at this point. The problem of making such a threat is then once threatening this,one might have to follow through.

The world is a much different place than in 1989. The 1980s were the last time we saw these kinds of behaviors from Russia and the Soviet Union.