Last Friday, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and author of The New Russia, wrote an opinion piece in Time Magazine addressing the problems in the world today and the coming change in the world hegemony as Donald Trump gains his footing as the new leader of the free world.
In his piece, he addressed the world’s plethora of problems but stressed that there was none more, “urgent today than the militarization of politics and the new arms race.” He elaborated by continuing to say, “More troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers are being brought to Europe. NATO and Russian forces and weapons that used to be deployed at a distance are now placed closer to each other, as if to shoot point-blank. 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…
