Readers’ Forum

The war game

All on a sudden a war expert said that the USA might strike China and Russia before these two countries launch nuclear attack on the US mainland. An US Admiral warned the White House and the Pentagon that the Chinese and the Russian Naval Forces were capable of destroying the US mainland. We do not know who will attack whom? But we get the evidence that the leaders of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria are paving the way for the return of the NATO infantry and armoured divisions in the Middle East.
We have no idea what will China and Russia do if the Syria’s Asad government falls on account of the continued US air strikes in that country? But we know that Moscow and Beijing have not still condemned the US actions in Syria, if not in Iraq. Candidly speaking the present US government is trying to put its feet into the shoes of Monroe Doctrine of 1907 when the US government warned the European powers to retire from the land and sea where the US interests were involved.
However, President Obama, his generals, air marshals and admirals know it well that Russia has more nuclear warheads than the USA with capacity to strike the US mainland the military bases through out the world. At the same time President Putin and President Xi also know that Washington has capacity to destroy both Moscow and Beijing. In view of this, the possibility of the 3rd world war is least but cannot be ruled out totally because imperialists cannot tolerate any rising military and economic power.
Abdullah Akber
Dhaka