Rice bids to defuse talk of new Cold War

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 Czech Republic and Poland. Apparently, Putin thought that these missile interceptors were targeted against Russia.. However, Rice said that it was not against Russia but against possible emerging threats such as Iran.

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 USA in Czech Republic, are targeted against Russia.

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.

Therefore, we must acknowledge all this and try to be as sensitive as possible to one another.

I think that the author of this article is trying to tell us that wars are never over. We are in a constant risk every single day. It is trying to tell us that wars can happen any time even over small things.

Of course, I would not know how true this statement is since I am not in an important position myself.

Overall, I think that we all need to be more sensitive to one another, taking care not to hurt the others’. This may prevent clashes in the furure.