Are we at the beginning of a major world war?

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Having been on this planet for fifty plus years, being born AFTER world war two, but growing up in an environment where its impact was still GREATLY felt and helped shape the (then) culture of the times, I am really very amazed at how the current invasion of Georgia by Russia and the virtually NON existent world uproar against it, very much reminds me of the German flexing of ITS muscles in the mid to late thirties.

I think with each new gain of territory combined with the worlds basic DO NOTHING response, a weakend Germany bounced back moth Morale wise and finance wise, enabling it to push the entire globe into a bloody and vicious world war.

Here again I see the world barely reacting to the invasion of the Republic of Georgia, why, even the OIL MARKETS are not responding! This must be MOST encouraging to Russia, as the timing of this invasion (The beginning of the weekend when most news desks are at bare boned staffing) combined with the Olympics drawing the rest of the news medias attention, was obviously deliberate.

What gets me is that really, what is the international response to this other than a few "You shouldn'ta hadn't oughtn't a done thises" ? After Georgia what is next? The Ukraine? The Baltic States (I would think those would come a little later, maybe Latvia being first on the schedule.

I am sure that Putin "Pooty Poot" as George bush calls him must be scratching his head thinking "I was expecting a MUCH bigger response and this is all that happens? Kind of like Hitler in the thirties (You know the man was absolutely amazed how their was virtually NO resistance to his advances!)

It will be interesting to see what develops net, but liek WWII I dont think they will be that quick of an assortment of military advances. No in the beggining maybe one every eight or nine months picking up speed as the world plunges towards war.


Do you think this is just ANOTHER conflict , or do you see something more sinister in Russias reawakening and invasion of a sovereign nation?