US Star Wars Threatens Peace

The new arms race of the world's military powers, wittingly or unwittingly, will undoubtedly affect us at the bottom of the arms value chain.

- Eric Mthobeli Naki

The best way to prevent real war is for each side to build their weapons to balance each other out. That's a dangerous vicious cycle to hell if you consider that Russia and China will never let the US win this arms race game and will probably develop even more advanced defensive equipment as a countermeasure.

A new arms race was sparked by US President Donald Trump who, as part of the US national security strategy, announced on 20 May, the development of a multilayered missile defense system, the Golden Dome, in outer space.

This US project represents a revival of the strategic defense initiative launched in 1984 under Ronald Reagan, but later abandoned due to its prohibitively high costs.

Trump even bragged that the system would be able to intercept missiles "even if they are launched from the other side of the world".