Nuclear Free World

Cue fanfare of trumpets for yet another “arms reduction treaty” between the US and Russia, it looks and sounds pretty impressive but when you get down to the detail both sides will still have around 1500 nuclear missiles each.

Obama and Medvedev are fooling no-one this is just cosmetic, nothing of substance is happening.

Clowns like these two have been signing "nuclear arms reduction treaties" for the last 30 years and yet both still "upgrade" their arsenals and both still possess enough weapons to reduce the earth to a smouldering cinder many times over.

The signing is due to take place in Prague within the next four weeks, The choice of Prague is symbolic as it was the venue for Mr Obama’s speech last year in which he outlined his ambition for “a world without nuclear weapons”.

At this rate of reduction we should be Nuclear free in about a hundred and twenty years, way to go Obama.

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Russia See’s Sense

President Medvedev gave the first hint yesterday that Russia was prepared to perform a significant policy U-turn and support US moves for sanctions against Iran.

About time the Russians woke up to the fact that Iran is friendly with them because they are needed onside, once they are able to produce their own Nuclear weapons Iran will suddenly remember that the Russians are not friends of Islam, look at Afghanistan look at Chechnya.

Can the Reds really afford to have Islamic neighbours with a Nuclear capability, Iran would use their new found power to support their Muslim brothers anywhere they could, and don’t forget Iran sponsor lots of other groups with terrorist tags attached to them. Hezbollah for example, Israel would be first in the firing line.

I have said on many occasions that I cannot see Israel sitting idly by and letting the Iranians get the “Bomb” I suspect that their would be action on the Israeli part by the end of this year, certainly by the the early part of the new year on the Iranian Nuclear facilities, as they did with Iraq back in the early 80’s, that attack on Osirak in 1981 put back the Iraqi effort to get a bomb by at least 10 years.It was the world's first air strike against a nuclear plant. An undisclosed number of F-15 interceptors and F-16 fighter bombers destroyed the Osirak reactor 18 miles south of Baghdad, on the orders of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

So the countdown begins, if Russia do vote alongside the US this Month for increased Sanctions watch the Chinese follow suit, then the green light is given for Israel to finalise plans. Our first inkling that something is about to happen will be when newspapers start hinting at secret visits by Israeli leaders to Moscow.

I believe this is an action that has to be taken for many reasons not least of all Israeli security, but also as a message to other nations, notably in the middle east that going down that path will not be tolerated, we need to be reducing Nuclear weapons around the world not starting new arms races with unstable regimes.

DurdensView Tags: Russia, US, Nuclear, Israel, China, Iraq, Iran

Putin Back in Charge

I suspect there was a deal made made between Ex Russian President Vladimir Putin and current President Dimitri Medvedev, its a kind of revolving door deal where Putin exits first to let Medvedev in then in 2012 they reverse the procedure so Putin can take power again, and under new changes being made to the Russian constitution Putin would be able to serve  two six year terms taking him through till 2024 as leader.

Even now with Medvedev in the top chair it is widely known that “prime minister “ Putin is the real power in Russia, But is this really a bad deal for the rest of the World, I don’t think so, ok Putin  has had and continues to have problems with former States Georgia and the Ukraine, but these are more like spats between an ex husband and wife admittedly most ex’s don’t go to war over their spats, but these largely are internal disputes that don’t involve anyone else.

I don’t think Putin has been that bad a leader in terms of World stability, the Russians have problems like we do with Terrorism so we are on side about that, Putin is also one of the few to have any sway with the Iranians and has so far stayed onside with the West regard Iran’s nuclear ambitions, after all with full Russian backing Iran would already have had dozens of bombs.

Putin has demonstrated his tough guy credentials many times,  which have also helped to keep the US in check, Bush and Putin were never really on the same page, but Obama has impressed the Russian Leader and has already improved relations, first by visiting Moscow and then taking of the table for the time being American plans for a defence shield in Europe, that would have gone almost up to the Russian borders.

There are also  plans between the two Superpowers for future talks aimed at further reducing Nuclear arsenals on both the American and Russian sides. I know that it is widely accepted that America is the only superpower left, but the big red bear has been building up and sharpening its claws for a while now, and is gradually gaining its earlier influence in World Politics.

The human rights issue is the only real  area where The Russians differ massively from us in the West, and the Russians do have a different way of dealing with problems , if  a journalist starts to write negatively about the leadership they are shot in the street, this has happened many times,  that is a form of censorship I’m sure our leaders at times wish they could employ here, on a serious note though The Alexander Litvinenko poisoning here in London in 2006 shows how far the Russians will go to preserve the status quo.

Before we in Britain start moaning about the stitch up in the transfer of power in Russia, we should ask  is the revolving door policy of swapping leaders that different with Blair stepping aside and handing over to Brown unchallenged. To me its no different.

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