First of all, I must say this article reminded me of the Cold War which had many negative impacts with the world. This article is about US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. During this meeting, Putin apparently talked about a new Cold War. This was because of US plans to place elements of a missile defence shield in the
This means that a little misunderstanding such as this can even lead to cataclysmic consequences like Cold War II. This matters because it affects the whole world. This is actually quite similar to the cause of World War I. Do you know that World War I actually started just because one royal person was assassinated. Think about it, millions of lives lost just because to avenge one person. We must realize that such cases can happen if issues like this continue to happen.
From Putin’s point of view, it might seem that he was not at fault for causing the misunderstanding and he might only think it is a way of clarifying his doubts on whether the missile interceptors ,which are placed by the
From Rice’s point of view, she will most probably feel offended as she prefers to not to be reminded of the Cold War. She probably feels that she is being provoked by Putin to start a new Cold War.
