What does Russia China natural gas deal mean geopolitically?

@MightyChris:

So says the guy who is literally advocating using nuclear weapons to “wipe out” a race of people “once and for all.”

I wasn’t really advocating that.  I was thinking more along the lines of JWWs post but he wrote it better than me and more funny.  Sometimes humour doesn’t carry well.  But anyway, lets get the hell out of the middle east and leave them to their own.

@empireman:

Where I live would be the spot where the war will first start, So I would have the choices of being a slave or a part of a resistance group. I would choose to fight the evil commies.

same here…

@Gargantua:

I love the Russian answer.

-SEND IN 20,000 TROOPS-

Why can’t the Yankee’s do this more often.

Just wait till Russia blames the US for trying to get the meteor to hit them, for a reason to invade.

EPIC!!!

I’ll take two.

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Soldat is a title of a book written by a German Soldier who was a member of the General Staff and was a prisoner in Russia.  Read it, too.

Forbes magazine has an article about the dangers of doing business in China.

This guy, David Ji seemed to be a pro.  He built a $ billion +  DVD importing business.

He went back there to sort out a billing dispute last year. 
A major supplier who he had a deal with ousted their CEO and replaced him with a party crony.
Ji was siezed by police in his hotel. 
They have not let him come back.

http://www.forbes.com/home_asia/free_forbes/2005/1114/142.html

He’s not the only one.

http://www.forbes.com/home_asia/free_forbes/2005/1114/142sidebar.html

On 2001-11-16 18:00, e_prime wrote:
first– greetings to all,
it’s good to see some nice discussion.

i’d like to know how many people play with russia not being able to attack in the first turn?

i haven’t played a+a in quite some time (hmm. almost 5 years) and i’ve recently started playing with a couple of new people who are quite skilled players (which is nice) however, when i played before russia was never allowed to attack first. these guys play with the russian’s being able to attack first. i don’t know if it’s my skills being rusty or what. . .but i haven’t been able to have a dominating win with axis yet!! one ipc victory (only because of japan) and two losses. it’s quite frustrating.

help?

If you say these guys are skilled players, then that explains it all. Skilled players don’t loses convincingly when playing the Allies under the normal set of rules.

I just had a dominating victory as the Axis against some friends who have a lot of experience but haven’t played in a while. They are convinced that their poor rolling was the reason they lost so badly. They believe this because there was no single move that they made that proved to be devistating to their objectives. However, it was obvious to me -and my partner- that their over all strategy (or lack there of) was very weak. They should know better.

If these guys have a good understanding of the fundamentals of the game as well as Allied strategy, you are probably going to have to forget about a dominant Axis victory and learn to settle for just a victory.

Good luck