Russia Flexes Military Muscle

The headlines read; Russia Agrees to Halt War. That’s French for Russia agrees to stop kicking Georgia’s ass up and down Eastern Europe. From a pure business play, the aggression by the former Soviet Union doesn’t make sense and can’t sustain itself if they want to be considered a legitimate government on the business world stage. In other words, you can’t play the buy sell game one day, then be marauding invaders the next…the two just don’t go together.

Ah but it seems like old times….

I will say there is something familiar in the latest headlines. In fact, there is certain comfort in seeing Russia flex its muscles, it reminds us of a time when we Knew who our enemy was. That they, like you, had boarders and citizens, and that they too understood what the mutually assured destruction doctrine meant and would prefer not be blown to smithereens either.

Today, there are no boarders, no boundaries, no conventions or dictum that describes how to act when a countryless agitator threatens your way of life. So you make it up as you go along because there is no war plan for a guy that steps out of the subway in Manhattan and leaves a dissolving vial of Anthrax on the corner of 55th and Lex.