McCain is preparing a war with Russia should he be elected

OK, that's just speculation, but you have to agree that this article really looks like McCain is seizing the opportunity for a shock therapy opening given to him by Putin, who also wants an opportunity to apply shock therapy on the Russian people!

Geeezz isn't the world depressing today...

When the shock therapists of the world were submitted to votes (without wars) they always lost the elections or at a minimum fared very poorly in the popularity polls (Pinochet, Thatcher, Yeltsin, etc.). The neoliberal reforms they wanted (which amount to a privatization of profits and socialization of costs), were not in favor with the people, they needed something to suspend democracy.

Pinochet repeatedly used state terror (the real terrorism!), killed thousands of people to avoid losing elections, Thatcher invented[2] a war[1] for a piece of rock that nobody really wants and then crushed the unions at home with the same arguments used in the war and Yeltsin just took power directly by surrounding the parliament with tanks and setting it on fire.

Whatever they use, they try to first shock people into obedience (remember the post-September 11 wimpy democrats?) and then unleash a set of policies that hijack all rights the people may have gained through the democratic process -- in the process making huge profits! (Remember Dick Cheney as a board member of Haliburton which got billions in payouts from the government? -- yes, because taxpayers would certainly not pay Halliburton, when the soldiers don't even get decent medical care!).

People of the world, be ware of your governments, if they shock you don't fall for it!
The Spanish people should be seen as the real heroes in the crisis of March 2004, when the government wanted to shock them, they said no and took democracy seriously!

[1] " The fact is this regime had no need to generate consensus among the Argentine population, for it was a highly repressive authoritarian regime. The dirty war had created a climate of fear so strong that civil society essentially fell apart. The press was censoring itself out of fear caused by the “disappearances” of several journalists who had criticized the regime." -- in http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/2004/nov/mcclureNOV04.asp

[2] "From a political point of view, the war helped the reelection of Margaret Thatcher (who was losing popularity before the conflict started)" -- in http://www.yendor.com/vanished/falklands-war.html