It’s funny how sometimes we think grudges are dead because they haven’t surfaced for a few years, or even decades.  Throughout my education, we had always been taught about the Cold War and how it was laid to rest with the break up of the USSR.  Despite calm and peace of the last 15 years, it seems to me as though we still involved in the Cold War. 

Recent events have put America and Russia at each others throat again, and having two presidents with aggressive tendencies certainly isn’t helping.  Putin has been an overbearing and unwavering threat to us since his election to office, whether you look at his politics or his handling of the Chechen rebels. However, most recently we seem to be the aggressor.  Putin threatened to aim missiles at Europe yesterday in response to the US plan to build a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.  While the response is a VERY threatening one in a day and age where one missile can wipe out a large chunk of England, maybe it is justified.  While this plan of ours entails building missile defense systems, do you know what these missile defense systems are?  Missiles.  We fights missiles with missiles.  The missile “defense” system is really just a series of silos, which could potentially be used to hit Russia very easily with nuclear missiles in the future.  It is obvious that the best defense for missiles is intimidation, and it seems that the US has found an intimidation scheme. 

The funny thing is that this missile defense system is obviously intended for Russia.  Missiles from other nuclear superpowers would never cross over the area that we building these.  I was under the impression that we were trying to form a closer diplomatic relationship with Russia, but here we are provoking them, seemingly out of fear.  What’s next?  A race to mars?

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