Are the chess pieces being set for the next big War?

[gatorboy]

On CSPAN yesterday a reporter asked during a Pentagon briefing if the US was worried about the joint military exercises China and Russia would be conducting in the middle of August.

Here is a brief bit from an news article on the situation:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050802/ap_on_re_as/china_russia_military_exercise_2

BEIJING - China and Russia will hold their first joint military exercise Aug. 18-25 with nearly 10,000 troops in two sites on China's and Russia's eastern coasts, the Chinese Defense

The announcement highlights warming ties between Beijing and Moscow after decades of Cold War hostility. Their reconciliation has been driven in part by mutual unease at U.S. power and a fear of Islamic extremism in Central Asia.

The exercises with army, navy and air forces will take place on China's Shandong peninsula and in the Russian city of Vladivostok and in nearby waters, the Chinese Defense Ministry said. It didn't give any other details of planned activities.

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Now the exercise itself isn't recent news. They've been planing the exercise since last year:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/28/content_403823.htm

Russia, China to hold massive joint drill

Russia and China will hold a massive joint military exercise on Chinese territory in late 2005 involving state-of-the-art weapons, Russia's defense minister said Monday as the two nations move to bolster burgeoning military ties.

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The Associated Pressed quoted some Western observers in an report as saying that Russia could respond to the falling out with the West over Ukraine's presidential election farce by trying to forge a closer partnership with China and India.

During his visit to India earlier this month, Putin pushed for a trilateral summit with leaders of India and China and assailed U.S. "dictatorship of international affairs," said the AP report.
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What's interesting about the earlier report that isn't mentioned currently is Russia's interest in having India as a reliable partner. Which now seems to be the real reason why Bush has been sharing US nuclear secrets with India:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/20/windia20.xml

India to share US nuclear secrets

ndia's prime minister took a triumphal tour of Capitol Hill yesterday after achieving the decades-old goal of securing American agreement to share its nuclear technology with New Delhi.

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The agreement ends long-standing US opposition to helping countries develop nuclear technology and highlights the blossoming of ties between Washington and New Delhi.

With Pakistan regarded as unreliable in the fight against terrorism and American paranoia over China growing, India is seen as a bulwark in a troubled region.

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It's obvious now that Bush is trying to beat Russia to the punch by taking in India as a buddy, dangling nuclear secrets to appease them. But it's too little too late...
Bush's arrogance at using US military power as a world-wide bully is taking a course for the worse now. The rest of the world won't stand for it and looks like the other super powers are shuffling together allies for something big.

And we have Bush's arrogance (As usual) to thank for it.

[Deja Q]

1. The US isn't responsible for how the world reacts to it.

The US is responsible for how it acts.

We're individual nations, not a world community. Despite what the pro-"globalization" folks want us to think.

Whatever happens happens. Live life to the fullest until then.

[seabeyond]

2. funny you bring htis up. this morning, i went to exactly this

now my eye is on all this stuff. hm. is it?

[havocmom]

So long as there is $$ to be made by campaign contributors Chicken Hawks

don't risk their own hide nor their offspring, sure, war is always an option.

Time to start making the blokes who choose war lead the first charge, wearing helmets with large feather plumes and riding big horses. Only when they stand to take personal losses will they stop picking fights for others to finish while they take $$ to the bank.

[earthboundmisfit]

3. Shrub wanted to start the Cold War up again with Russia, so this is what

we have to show for it. He deliberately destroyed any progress we made in US-Russian diplomacy with his own brand of REVERSE diplomacy.

[catmandu57]

4. Yes, unfortunately

We have "leaders" who insist on playing checkers in the chess game.

[wli]

5. the neocons are playing a geopolitical fried liver attack

And we all know how that's refuted.