Worrying News – Russia to Rearm

Russia has announced plans to spend over £90 billion in the next 2.5 years on rearming its forces, with a focus on nuclear weapons and its general combat readiness.

This is in response to what is seen as NATO expansionism and also to a poor ground force performance in Georgia. Whatever the reason, it is potentially destabilising as there will no doubt be a counter response from the West. Then instead of focusing the power of East and West on addressing fundamentalism we will face a new arms race which will fail to address the greatest threat to the globe at the moment.