Another war coming?

Don't know if anybody else has been following the Russia-Georgia conflict, but it is not ending anytime soon. There's supposedly a cease-fire agreement, and Russia has claimed they have ordered a halt to military operations. However, Georgia is still reporting attacks inside their country. I just saw a headline for three sunken ships too. This is pretty crazy.

The US and Europe are continuing telling Russia to stop, but reports indicate we don't have much to threaten them with. Russia apparently is pretty self-sufficient, so most we can do politically is take them out of G8 and boycott their events. But you never know, next thing you know, the superpowers are going to butt in with military forces. It's not looking too good.

I also just read an article stating how this might jeopardize our access to the International Space Station (ISS). If you don't know already, NASA is grounding the space shuttle fleet in 2010. We have an agreement to allow us access to ISS via Russian Soyuz spacecrafts, but that expires in 2011. After that, the ISS will be in sole control of the Russians. That doesn't sound good either.

Oy...