Stumbling Into a Big War

So, obviously there are still a lot of people unable to understand Ron Paul. They didn't understand our foreign policy before 9/11 and they sure don't get it now. This is particularly sad, because continued military interference in the Middle East isn't just going to get us in trouble with Muslims- eventually it'll wake China, Russia, or both.

The Chinese have been heavily investing in Africa, as well as elsewhere. The Chinese are committed to growth, growth beyond which seems sane, but the rural impoverished people there have a history of bringing down governments, so the bureaucrats have an incentive. Make these people middle class, who do annoying things, like believe the TV tells them about American foreign policy in the Middle East- the middle class are docile and therefore prefered.

The current fighting in Libya is upsetting already existing contracts between Libya and China. The rabble currently posing as rebel force has already stated NATO powers will be getting the sweet deals. The Chinese have interests all over the place, especially in Africa, but we keep going to war with the people who have the resources they want to buy for their projects. This even rose to the surface during the spat with Pakistan after we violated their sovereignty. The Chinese are the all-weather friends; they bring these countries money and technical expertise. We may bring money, but we bully.

Russia also has interests in the Middle East. It seems the U.S. has settled on a plan to essentially steal various assets of certain countries before we go to war with them. This may become a way to 'keep hope alive' while D.C. keeps burning through the world's assets. In any case, they did it to Libya, and they've just recently done it to Syria. Russia has an interest in Syria and a naval supply base there.
In addition, although America may have completely forgot about Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Russia has not, nor have Muslims. America likes to fashion itself a Christian nation, and when Muslims feel like retaliating, they find the one sort of Christian probability suggests Americans are not; Orthodox. The Russians no doubt notice this.
Since the end of the Soviet era the Russian Orthodox church has been experiencing regrowth. Like all proud people they have aspirations of their own.
The Orthodox world, meanwhile has been upset since Kosovo. In the Middle East they have to deal with Muslim governments, and now Greece is suffering from whatever new edicts are issued from the European banks.

If Russia could ameliorate the problem in other Orthodox lands, well, that meshes pretty well with the Russian conception of themselves as a great people, doesn't it?

And, everyone is noticing how quickly the dollar is being devalued. They don't want to use it as a reserve currency- but apparently no one is ready to go back to gold quite yet. Various Russian and Chinese have openly made statements about the profligacy of the U.S. government, but there is barely a mention of it in our press.

So, I guess the point of this is, if you are one of those idiots on the internet who made me angry today, please don't be surprised when we end up in a really big war. The bull in the china shop, in all likelihood, will get shot by the china shop owner. If the china shop owner doesn't do it, well, there are other shops on the block, and none of them want the bull either.