Russia conducts ballistic missile tests - Yahoo! News

"'This was a dry run for a war with the United States,' Felgenhauer said of the missile launches, part of major military manoeuvres billed 'Stability 2008' involving all military branches.

'These are the biggest strategic war games in more than 20 years. They are on a parallel with those held in the first half of the 1980s. Nothing of the sort has been seen either in Russia or the United States since then,' he said."

Wars and rumors of war?

Mat 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Mat 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.