The cold war is now close more than it was ever before and the rotten scent of the hot war is sensed by politicians and military men. Current political conflicts in the world are get- ting fiercer with every camp pulling itself together to get ready for hostile confrontations that do not augur spring in the vague future.
The New York Times newspaper reported that Russia in hinting as using the Iranian nuclear file as a tool to press the US and the EU after they slapped sanctions over it in connection with the Ukrainian sanctions. Moscow sent signals that it could alter its stance towards current nuclear talks between the major six powers and Iran if the Obama admin registration expanded sanctions on Russia on back of its annexation of Crimea. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov insinuated that his country could link between the Ukrainian and Iranian crises as part of diplomatic pressure on the US and EU. The West bas growing concerns that the escalating tensions between the US and Russia could s negatively affect current nuclear talks with Iran.
The maneuvers between the US and the EU on one hand and Russia on the other hand are tantamount to a cold war that aims at e extending each side’s control over influential areas in the world politically, economically and militarily. What is feared most is that World after g threatened to expand sanctions against Russia by adding 12 new Russian officials to the blacklist of those banned from entering the EU states and freezing their accounts at European banks. The EU blacklist now includes 33 Russians. Also, the EU cancelled a summit that was scheduled to take place in June with France threatening to send jets Baltics to boost NATO patrols in this troubled area.
What will further deepen this dispute is the unanimous approval the Russian Federal Council on the annexation of Crimea to Russia and Ukraine’s signing of an agreement to boost political cooperation with the EU. The US is trying to gain the support of Baltics to penetrate former Soviet Union states at a time Russia is trying to get these countries back to the Soviet Union to regain the Union power that collapsed when Russia weakened. Now that the Russian forces seized control over an Ukrainian maritime base in Crimea and raised the Russian flag over 189 military units. A NATO commander said the Russian forces are deployed on the eastern borders of Ukraine while others say that the Russian forces are at standby to move at any time. Anyway it is much known that heavy pressure always leads to explosion.
