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#Ukraine: France suffers Crude Shocks!
5 December 2022 Dr Manmohan Singh, India’s former PM wrote an OpEd in The Hindu in April this year, which spoke of the Global Order, of how it has benefited the Global South as much as it has the Global North, and how the barriers of global trade and tariff needed to stay put, if Read more
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#Ukraine: Awaiting General Winter
28 November 2022 No power in the world has the kind of stomach that Russia has demonstrated over centuries, and more recently with the advent of modern warfare first with Napoleon’s Campaign and then with Operation Barbarossa that Hitler launched in WWII. In large measure, Russia was to lead the fight by herself, through a Read more
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#Ukraine: The Lengthening Shadow of Great Power Madness over G20
21 November 2022 Sometimes, it is better to allow events to swill before you handle it. At least, that is the fortune of analysts, whose role is observation and deduction, not reaction. When Poland was attacked, the G20 was in a huddle in Bali, a summitry which paled because of the absence of Vladimir Putin. Read more
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#Ukraine: The Kherson Curse?
11 November 2022 There is enough evidence now of this #KhersonOffensive that was being analysed for months now, speculating if this was the proverbial Patton’s Third Army of WWII, a phantom exercise that was largely to throw the Russians off track. To many who follow this conflict in Ukraine, this was a steal when the Read more
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#Ukraine: Sledging versus Hammer
2 November 2022 Uneasy are the heads that lead the Defence of NATO- File Picture from NATO Meeting of Ministers of Defence in October 22. In recent history, never have we seen such a take down in narrative form as has been handed over the Russian military. Once American think tanks used to be in Read more
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#Ukraine: The Impute versus Output!
29 October 2022 When Putin announced the launch of Special Military Operations in Ukraine, unlike what the West assessed, it was evident that this was a logical step up in Russian efforts to convince Ukraine from going the NATO way. Where President Biden and his situation room did not act was where Kennedy as President Read more