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"Today the situation is much more serious than before August 2008....[A] possible recurrence of war will not be limited to the Caucasus.
"The new President of the United States did not bring about any crucial changes in relation to Georgia, but having a dominant role in NATO he still insists on Georgia's soonest joining of the Alliance. If it happens, the world would face a more serious threat than the crises of the Cold War.
"Under the new realities, Georgia's war against South Ossetia may easily turn into NATO's war against Russia. This would be a third world war." (Iri
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
As the article says the U.S. Strategic Command Gen. Kevin Chilton told reporters that the U.S. stil reserves the right to attack any country, even including using nuclear weapons, if the U.S. it an enemy of the U.S. such as China, or Russia use a disabling cyber attack on the U.S.
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Originally posted by exile1981
1) Isreal attacks Iran to stop Iran from developing nukes. Personally I figure Iran is posturing because they have at least one nuke, otherwise I think they wouldn't be treatening to drive the Isreals into the sea. Given how often the President of Iran talks about bringing about the appocolypse and nuking Isreal, and how much of a zealot he is I can understand Isreal's desire to prevent him from getting Nukes.
2) Russia comes to the aid of it's ally Iran, assuming Iran survives the first 48 hours of it's war with Isreal. Lebanon and a few other local players side with Iran.
3) US joins in because of treaty with Isreal. US and Russia are at war now. Russia's satelite states are all joined in by this point.
4) Cuba and Venezula side with Russia. There is a chance that Russia will use the nuclear bombers in Venezula to Nuke the US, but that depends on if Russia is tring to go for control of US resources or is trying to destroy the US in a bid for world dominiance.
5) Canada and the rest of Nato get dragged into it because of the US involvement.
. . . I see Norway, Spain and Germany, likely France being the ones to opt out.
5B) Canada's minority government is likely to honor it's treaties, but the NDP and the Bloc Quebecious both hate the US and will likely try and block Canada's entry into the war. The Liberals have enough votes to counter the NDP and Bloc and keep the Conservatives in power but they dislike and bash Americans all the time. They like Obama and idolize Europe, they could go either way.
6) China starts a cyber war with the US to try and disrupt the US and it's allies. I don't think China will side with either faction, but is likely to wait till both sides are exhausted and weakened before moving against both. If it sides with Russia then it will likely be a very nasty war.
7) Either the US or Russia could launch a Nuke against China if they felt that China's cyber war was weakening them too much. But I think that if Iran has a nuke they will use it on Isreal in the opening phases of the war to try and end it quickly.
8) Other countries use the widening war to settle old scores and attack there neighbours. Much of Africa becomes a war zone of old scores being settled.
9) If Russia strikes against the US with Nukes then we will see a whole new widening of the war and a bunch of violations of the Geneva convention.
10) I think that if Russia and China team up and enough US allies opt out then the US could escalate to using Nukes because it won't have many other options.
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
This is crazy
I hope this site is incorrect
Another War... and with RUSSIA?
That's something else, that's actual war
Originally posted by Thebudweiserstuntman
Wow! It seems to me that such a retalliation would be extremely disproportionate! It's also extremely dangerous making statements like this. I can't imagine any global support for the US should they use nuclear weapons, for a third time, against another nation.