Over at Pravda (the Russian one not the BBC), an extremely interesting article by Dr. Peter Baofu on the potential implications of the strategic arms reduction treaty signed in Prague on April 8th :

Contrary to the conventional spinning in mainstream mass media, the recent signing of the strategic arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia in Prague on April 08, 2010 (to replace a previous treaty, the old START, which expired three months ago, that is, the end of 2009) reinforces a new global strategic game in the post-Cold War era

From reading general news articles, the treaty has been hailed as a major breakthrough by Obama in terms of world peace but there are some thought provoking points in the Pravda article that are well worth reading :

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Fourthly, the new treaty also reveals a growing interest in building a new generation of weapons, especially for the United States, which can strike any country with this new generation of new missiles at any time within a few hours, without increasing the numbers of its nuclear weapons.

For example, the United States is working on a new generation of “hyper missiles,” which can strike any target on Earth within a few hours, as part of the U.S. plan for “global military supremacy,” as reported by Rick Rozoff on August 22, 2009 and Robin McKie on November 14, 2004.

Ultimately, it all comes down to those who have nukes and those who don’t :

Surely, this polarizing global strategic game of dealing with nuclear weapons has made a lot of the have-nots unhappy; thus, this new strategic game for global domination has a strong dose of wishful thinking. The desire to possess nuclear weapons among the have-nots will not be curbed, as long as the few nuclear powers on Earth are allowed to monopolize them and to threaten (and blackmail) others which do not have the weapons.

This anger among the have-nots is all the more intensified, because, as long as the widespread killing and suffering in the world as a result of chronic Western invasion, bombing, devastation, occupation, or interference in other states (like Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and others around the world), under the leadership of the United States, continues –, there will be further efforts to resist this new strategic game for global domination. The current spread of the global networks of al-Qaeda is an excellent illustration of this anti-imperial resistance in the post-Cold War era, which also includes the attempt to smuggle nuclear materials whenever and wherever possible. And this is all the more so, when one remembers that the United States is in relative decline and is no longer as powerful as it once was in controlling the world.

Even worse, some nuclear powers themselves have time and again used different weapons of mass destruction on the have-nots, with devastating consequences to the poor folks in those countries. This is a form of what I call “state nuclear terrorism,” this time undertaken by powerful states against the relatively weaker ones – as opposed to what I call “individual nuclear terrorism.”

A good example involves the United States, which dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and almost all those who get killed, often in the most horrific way, were civilians, which constitutes one of the most horrific war crimes in history. To this day, the United States is the only country on Earth which has ever used atomic bombs on others.

Well worth a visit for a different perspective on this rather important issue.