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  • Damascus Sword! Diplomacy hangs by a thread.

    5 April 2024 Very clearly the air strike targeting the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, Syria, was a desperate Israeli ploy to divert attention from international opprobrium, especially peaking after the deaths of World Central Kitchen charity aid workers in the Gaza. Loss of Western civilian lives in that strike brought home a relevance that perhaps Read more

  • #Ukraine: Emergent Tides

    21 March 2024 Ides of March was made famous by Shakespeare as if Mars the God of War in Roman ( as well as Tamil classical antiquity as Sevvai) was at fault for offering a new momentum to a conflict that was perhaps beginning to offer an end game. President Macron has made a series Read more

  • True North: Modern Militaries Morality Complex!

    16 March 2024 Is morality the Ides of March for a military? The scope of this essay is not to examine the record of modern post world wars military conflicts for their record vis-à-vis the Geneva Conventions, but a simpler premise that do militaries need to have an ethical core around which they can rally, Read more

  • Ukraine: Frankenstein Protocol

    11 March 2024 In some darkest office spaces, deep within the deepest of Deep State panels light up working numbers, plotting against maps, playing an updated version of scenario. The outside world of metal and chemical explosives, the blood curling rage of battle cries, the lament of kith and kin, the acrid smell of fouling Read more

  • #Ukraine: The Narrative Rebound

    23 February 2024 A moment comes, not rarely, but invariably, in the march of our times, when the dots connect, when a narrative weave is frayed by scrutiny, by the inherent fallacies it has threaded together, under the weight of contradictions of their individual threads. The story of Ukraine’s ‘War for Independence’ is a narrative Read more

  • #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

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