Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
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Friday, November 02, 2012

MIDDLE EAST: NUCLEAR RACE

Israel’s supremacy is in danger

However, the real threat is expected to come from prominent US ally Saudi Arabia. Although it doesn’t possess any nuclear warheads, evidence shows a high probability in the future. It bought 36 CSS-2, intermediate-range missiles from China and also planns to procure new Pakistani intermediate-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. It has also signed a MoU with US to develop nuclear energy cooperation and is in talks with France. Saudi Arabia opened a nuclear research centre recently and is planning the reconstruction of one of its old nuclear reactors that Israel destroyed.

Now that Iran and Israel are both going the nuclear way, and that its relations with the US are not exactly like the good old days. Saudi Arabia may just be looking to enter the nuclear club. In that case, Israel needs to worry even more. 


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Anticipating Nazism

Revengeful allies laid the base for WW II

The Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919, was the agreement which officially ended First World War and in many ways it was mistake that sow the seeds of Second World War. The contents in the agreement were so lopsided against Germany that it created wave of resentment in Germans. Victorious nations forced Germany, the loser, to pay $33billion to allied powers. It had to give its provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to France. Great Britain had pie on many colonies of Africans to Great Britain. If this was not enough, the Rhineland Province of Germany was completely demilitarised. This led to a disgrace of a nation and its people. Germany protested that the treaty was unfair and unjustified, but it was forced to sign on it.

It was a great blunder on the part of allied powers in the sense that their acts did not punish the rulers, but inflicted misery on the innocent people of Germany. It seemed that allied powers were merely interested in increasing the territory and military might and were not interested in principal aspects of treaty. When Hitler stood against the unfair treaty; people rallied around him. In direct contravention of this treaty, Hitler sent the German army into the Rhineland in 1936. In many ways, Hitler, in order to test the patience of great powers particularly Great Britain and France that humiliated Germany after First World War sowed the seeds of revenge.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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