Geopolitics!

Today, I didn't want to do any homework and I didn't want to feel guilty about not doing work the whole day so I decided to write a short reflection after reading an article on Geopolitics.

This article was taken from the July 23rd copy of news week and it is titled, " Divide and conquer". I'm not very sure how related it is to GP but nonetheless, its still general knowledge.

New, funny words/thematic vocab etc found:
resurgent
encroaching
notionally
kremlin
Black sea port of Odessa
antiballistic
nukes

Summary: Russia under putin, is engaged in this tug of war with the US over the eastern european states like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova etc. these countries are becoming closer and closer to the US due to 'common diplomatic values' but Russia is feeling the threat. some facts include Russia being able to shut down these countries' economies in a few days, the American guided missile destroyer USS Donald Cook was welcomed into Ukraine, and Putin wanting Iran as an ally to counter american influence.

Reflections:
I feel that although the cold war is over and although i initially thought Russia has restored its democratic form of administration, there would be no more rivalry between the two old time rivals, but this is not the case, and the two are still trying to collect their own diplomatic chips around the world. Putin took advantage at the surge in the anti-americanism that followed after its occupation of Iraq by selling arms to those anti-american countries. last month putin even signed a $3 billion arms deal with venezuela. At this rate, a conflict bt these two superpowers and their allies might come sonner than we think.