“Okay, so after the fall of the Soviet Union the enemy went from Russia to the Serbs, and later, after 9/11, the enemy became Al Qaeda, aka terrorists, and went on to include ‘select’ dictators designated as ‘certain dictatorships.’ It went from defense to ethnic conflicts, from terrorism to reinterpreted and reinvented human rights causes. …

In May 2008, Gorbachev repeated his view that … ‘the Americans promised that NATO wouldn’t move beyond the boundaries of Germany after the Cold War’.

That promise lasted for a few years, and then without designating Russia as the enemy extraordinaire, NATO expanded and added: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania. And a few years after Romania, NATO agreed to the accession of Croatia and Albania and invited them to join, and invited Ukraine and Georgia to become members. No one mentioned any specific threat or enemy. No one ‘really’ asked. …

Lately NATO has been busy going after resource-rich nations in Central Asia and the Caucasus for its new round of membership acquisition: … Azerbaijan by offering a 10 million dollar military support for the improvement of the Azeri military marine performances …

Source: Hail! NATO Expands
12-7-11

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/12/07/hail-nato-expands-again/

I think war or any kind military engagement is very very rarely a good thing. I think if there is evil in the world, I mean really evil, military engagements and war is it. I don’t think we need to read religious scriptures to know where to find evil.

As this occurred,

Russia’s Putin complains about the US State Dept (aka Hillary Clinton) inciting protests over the recent elections (something the US has a history of doing in different countries throughtout the world, e.g. from Venezuela to Palestine to Ukraine)

and China is building up its military because of the recent installation of a US military base in northern Australia (one of nearly 1000 US bases throughout the world).

Can we predict what the future will be like?

Actually, the *only* country that has been known to attack other countries with drones is the good ol’ USA.