I suspect that Russia is feeding the Iranians nuclear weapons to get them to attack our troop in Iran. Russia is running about in a shiny fire engine, but has gasoline in the water tanks.
I tend to suspect that is is going to esclate far beyond what we suspect, and may end in the invasion of Taiwan and South Korea as we pull our fleets from the Japan sea to support our troops in Iraq.
Thanks for the reply, it helps to clarify the issue.
I have long believed that an invasion of Taiwan would be coordinated with a brush war elsewhere which would either make our intervention in Taiwan impossible, or at least make a refusal to intervene publicly justifiable, whichever way you prefer to look at it.
If that were the case, now for example, that would mean that rather than a desperate move, seizing the sailors was baiting the hook. Thanks, pal, now you're making me nervous.
That would get it on against the whole "Axis" at once. We did it once before. We can do it again. I think the entry of Russia into the mess would keep nukes off the various tables so long as conquest of the "homeland" is out of the discussion. Putting it all off will only make things more intense and more widespread.
There is really no need to pull any ships from the Pacific area. There are two carriers in the Gulf now with a third on the way. Don't forget, we also have Iran surrounded with numerous ground based aircraft carriers (airports) well within strike range. I have always suspected that this is the real reason we wanted to be in Iraq in the first place.