Cold War 2.0?

By Tommy Leung on 08/11/2008 in Politics

A new Cold War is certainly an attention grabber and will sell news–that is why I titled this what I did. Hopefully, we don’t send troops over to Georgia in an attempt to defend them against the Russians. The news is reporting the situation as an invasion by Russia but, the reality is hardly as black and white.

You can read an in-depth look at what is really going on here. The main point is that Georgia invaded the “breakaway” province of South Ossetia where a lot of Russian citizens happen to reside. Russia used their military might in response to Georgia’s actions. It is hard to put the fault on Russia in this scenario as Russia is protecting its own citizens. We would expect our government to protected American citizens living in Mexico if certain danger were to arise–there is little difference in this case.

The media will try to make this out to be an aggressive action by Russia because that will sell the news. The only prudent move we can make is to stay out of the affairs of that area. We’ve already got our hands full with the Middle East and a weak economy at home. And besides, do our politicians really have the moral high ground to condemn Russia when we’ve invaded a country that did no harm to us?

By Tommy Leung