VP candidate Sarah Palin “WARNS WAR MAY BE NECESSARY IF RUSSIA INVADES ANOTHER COUNTRY,” according to ABCNews. Necessary. A war between the major contenders in the Cold War. Between countries bristling with nuclear weapons. Necessary? War with Russia’s former incarnation as the heart of the USSR, for those that have forgotten, is the nightmare scenario [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Russia’
Sarah Palin Courts a Nightmare War
Posted: September 11, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Jesus, nonviolence, Russia, Sarah Palin
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Convergence
Posted: August 28, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, airstrikes, civilian casualties, Georgia, Herat, just war theory, Maximillianus, Russia
Two things come together at the United Nations: UNITED NATIONS: Russia, at odds with the United States over Georgia, tried unsuccessfully to push the UN Security Council on Tuesday to condemn US-led air strikes in Afghanistan that killed dozens of civilians. The Russian delegation had drafted a statement that would say the council’s 15 member [...]
Incoming
Posted: August 18, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Christianity, defense contractors, defense spending, Georgia, Navy, nonviolence, Pentagon, Russia
Everyone knows that war in general and the Iraq war specifically has meant big money for defense contractors, but a new congressional report puts it in stark relief: …[T]he scale of the use of contractors in Iraq is unprecedented in US history, according to a new congressional report that may be the most thorough official account [...]
Calm Down
Posted: August 16, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Gandhi and Jesus, Georgia, McCain, missile defense, nonviolence, nuclear weapons, Russia, soteriology, Terrance J. Rynne, United States
I feel like I woke up this morning in a time warp: Moscow — Russia warned Poland on Friday that it is exposing itself to attack — even a nuclear one — by accepting a U.S. missile interceptor base on its soil, delivering Moscow’s strongest language yet against the plan. American and Polish officials stuck [...]
Exactly.
Posted: August 14, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Georgia, nonviolence, propaganda, Russia, South Ossetia
I agree: We watch and read voluminous reports on this relatively small Russian war against its neighbor and former domestic province (Georgia was one of the SSRs in the old USSR), and meanwhile there is almost nothing being reported about the continuing five-year-old war launched by Bush and Cheney against Iraq. And certainly, over the [...]
Russia Halts Advance, Cheney Wants More
Posted: August 12, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Cheney, Georgia, Jesus, nonviolence, Russia, South Ossetia
Russia ends its push into Georgia, sort-of: “President Dmitry Medvedev ended the onslaught against the former Soviet republic…But Russian forces had already kicked Georgian troops out of the breakaway province of South Ossetia, surged across the border on two fronts to seize Georgian towns, police stations and military bases, and pounded military installations deep inside [...]
