SCO? I thought they were talking about the United Nations.
Iknow little of this SCO, but what I have learned over my 62 yars is that, if Russia is in it you can bet it wont help the USA.
I believe the Russians are fine people, but their leadership seems to be afflicted with an urge for power ,not only over their own people but the world.
MAD, (Mutually Assured Destruction) kept us safe for the duration of the cold war.
We "won" the cold war and guess what? Same people, Russia controlled by KGB, Communist China, Fidel Castro, etc, have simply found they can avoid MAD, by have some bogeyman find a nuke or two and smuggle them in to the US.
Nobody here but us chickens, they would say.
True. The USSR is making a comeback, and China never reformed.
Brilliant!
Sometimes I wonder at some folks ability to self-govern.
which I began writing in 2000 with the help of a number of Freepers, and finished publishing (the fifth volume of that series) in 2004.
With the effort to attract and potentially include Iran in that organization (if indeed that occurs), and left unchecked, it will set the stage for the horrific confrontations between that organization (which in my series included China, N. Korea, Iran, most of the the 'stan states, and ultimately India, with economic ties to Russia) and the west that I wrote of in that series.
Very similar to what Japan envisioned with the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in the 1930s and 1940s...leading to the same type of disasterous confrontations and results.
IBTRWC!
And $30 oil will fix a lot of mischief in the world.
"The SCO formally agreed at last year's summit to reverse America's post-9/11 military presence in Central Asia. Soon after, Uzbekistan closed Karshi Khanabad airbase to U.S. forces. Now the rulers of Extortistan - er, Kyrgyzstan are trying to raise the price of the U.S. lease on Manas airbase rent from $2 million to $200 million a year."
The SCO's plans-- if successful-- would lead to an immense setback to the United States' War on Terror; American troops in the Central Asian countries are a necessary buffer to prevent Islamist fanaticism from spreading northward, and Putin is making an immense strategic error by opposing their presence. After all, if Islamist fanaticism moves northward, *Russia* will be its major target. The Islamists have, after all, already manifested aggressive designs on Russia via attacks like the Beslan school shooting.
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