29 March 2023 The biggest earthquake of our present times geopolitically just happened and most of the world appears to have given it a wide miss. No, it is not India where apparently democratic mores are becoming the bone of contention and where the bureaucracy has used the rule to evict an MP, nor is […]
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#Ukraine: A Reaper drowned!
18 March 2023 We are witness to a new phase of escalation in the aftermath of the Russian decision to drown a MQ9 Reaper drone of the USAF. This signals a return to the heightened phase of the Cold War, only that this is happening in the backdrop of an already full fledged ‘proxy on […]
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#Ukraine:The Global Tilt
5 March 2023 Few expected that the world would change, even though we end up remember the day after of how a week itself is considered too long, that politics oft is a play of strange bedfellows. So we look at how Ukraine is retreating blasting railway bridges across Bahmutha river as they surrender the […]
24 February 2023 The saying about the FOG OF WAR is that ‘No Plan Survives Contact’. So we must understand that two distinct military cultures who are at war in Ukraine are still ‘planning’ and this after one whole year of combat operations which have stood up as a testimony to that adage that ‘more […]
10 February 2023 When the Global Commons marched post Cold War, it was the breeze of liberal free market economics that carried the comity of nations through GATT and WTO, by establishment of common markets and free trade zones across regions. While the global economy had been pegged to the US Greenback for more than […]
7 February 2023 One can actually admire how a few balloons of hot air can disrupt the way of meticulously orchestrated state craft that was to have led to the first ever Chinese Presidential meet up with the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. Diplomatic watchers will aver how remarkable such a face-off would have been, […]
23 January 2023 Any parable about brothers, about unity from Panchatantra to Jatakas to folk lore will always inform us about how an outside influence disturbs the equilibrium between siblings and promote rivalry. Yet, I am tempted to draw from ancient Tamil history where a poet, Perunchitiranar wrote about two brothers who ruled their kingdom, […]
18 January 2023 Wars have a way of upending what until then were dreary deliberations that meandered like a river into a desert…a nowhere point. Intellectual exercises at times, need this kind of an edge, a sheer drop from a precipice, where the option of further refining or digressing a point meets a fatalism, one […]
23 December 2022 The year of 2022 has been one which saw China emerge quietly, forsaking her previous stratagem of Wolf Diplomacy and overt trade heckling, moving softly as it were, to attain great advantages in the sphere of politico economic globalism. Compared to the fears of a Chinese melt down following the discovery of […]
22 December 2022 When this blogging site was started four years ago this day, the world appeared to be chugging along nicely. The concerns were of a Thucydides Trap that would see a joust inevitable between America and China no doubt, but an Indian and larger Asian promise seemed to be that glue that would […]
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