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‘Looks as if the world is preparing for war,' says former Soviet president
Gorbachev
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‘Looks as if the world is preparing for war,' says former Soviet president
Gorbachev
Karen Gilchrist,
Digital Reporter Fri, Jan 27 3:06 AM PST .
Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin must unite to spearhead a new
resolution banning nuclear war, Mikhail Gorbachev , former president of the
Soviet Union, has urged.
"Politicians and military leaders sound increasingly belligerent and defense
doctrines more dangerous. Commentators and TV personalities are joining the
bellicose chorus. It all looks as if the world is preparing for war,"
Gorbachev stated in an opinion piece in Time magazine on Thursday. He added
that the most pressing challenge we face today is reversing the "
militarization of politics."
Gorbachev criticized governments for their disproportionate allocation of
funds away from state essentials and towards weapons, saying:
"While state budgets are struggling to fund people's essential social needs,
military spending is growing. Money is easily found for sophisticated
weapons whose destructive power is comparable to that of the weapons of mass
destruction."
He called on members of the UN Security Council to take the lead on re-
establishing a resolution stating that nuclear war is "unacceptable and must
never be fought," and said that Putin and Trump should be the first leaders
to embrace this.
"I think the initiative to adopt such a resolution should come from Donald
Trump and Vladimir Putin — the presidents of two nations that hold over 90
percent of the world's nuclear arsenals and therefore bear a special
responsibility."
A similar agreement was established between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in
the 1980s, but has since been eroded along with the relations between the
two powers, Gorbachev said. |
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