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  • #Ukraine: The Second Year of Second Chances

    21 February 2024 War by any means is always a sordid affair, whether fought with roses or air flame hoses, whether bombed by incendiary munitions or by WMD, because the aim of any war is subjugation- moral and physical, forcing one side to surrender its valued corpus to the other that emerged victorious. Perhaps that… Read more

  • Pakistan: A Turn Toward India?

    12 February 2024 The decades after Independence, most Pakistanis would be polite and reticent with an attitude of quiet discomfiture that said- we are like that only, when they met their Indian counterparts. Especially for those who spoke Punjabi, the last few decades when Pakistan was involved with jehad and Afghanistan and spiralled downward economically,… Read more

  • Gaza:Toward a Final Solution?

    11 February 2024 The Israeli bombing and sniping in Gaza Strip is unprecedented act of war against an entire population. Of course, before the current Post Cold War Epoch, the global experience has been the use of state violence against ‘non state actors’, which did involve bombing from the air too. In this list of… Read more

  • State of Play: Putting it like Putin

    10 February 2024 War by other means, where the spoken word becomes mightier than the sword, is how decisions taken elsewhere in board rooms, in houses of representatives of the people, in warrens of bureaucratic maze, can upend or consolidate what is transpiring on the battlefields. The Tucker Carlson interview with President Putin being click… Read more

  • Gaza Godzilla

    29 January 2024 The events have a way of hurtling past our ability to appreciate their essence, their shape shifting nature and their transformation of the world in which we think we are in, is such that we appear caught in a warp of our own, unable to square up what events have served us… Read more

  • State of Play: Red Sea Storm

    18 January 2024 There is at play what we call the forces of unintended consequences, those small probables and pieces that when set upon, provoke a domino effect creating a series of ever rising ripples that finally create a tsunami. We don’t quite know when it all started, we can hazard a few educated guesses… Read more

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