20 January 2022 Manufactured outrage is now the new spin. If one can trace the underpinnings of fascism, the call would end with the inevitable conclusion that places ‘revisionism’ and rank ‘nationalism’ were actually pillions to a larger sense of ‘victimhood’. It would seem that Democracy as we now practise it, would need clear safeguards […]
Category: Geopolitics
Turkey-Lira in a Spidery Lair
For some time now, we know that Erdogan as President sees himself as the all-knowing Caliphate Ottoman of the modern world. His successes include his wipeout of Turkey’s opposition both ethnic and non ethnic intelligentsia based, by his staged coup and other judicial make over moves, his use of Turkey’s nascent industrial capacity to create […]
Imran: A Captain’s Knock?
Few will understand that what is happening in Pakistan is most unusual. From its early floundering foundational days, Pakistan as a ‘nationhood’ has been captive to a larger concept of persona unlike no other. In her initial days itself, the country became captive to vested interests, an elite that initially claimed her inevitability as a […]
24 December 2021 China has had a very exciting year. On the face of it, she finally managed all the markers for her ascendency to the Summit of Global Affairs, where she is now Equal with the reigning power, USA. Consider these events- 1 Anchorage Summit at Alaska 2. Exchange of ‘prisoners’ over the Huawei […]
13 December 2021 If any thing, this much is clear that the new multiple variant corona that is carrying nearly 50 variations in the Spike Protein region of the virus, variations that were initially suspected to impart extreme virulence to the germ, but which now appears to impart the virus with the potential to become […]
18 November 2021 We have witnessed now for quite sometime, an era where post Cold War, there were Groups, G7, 8, 20, 77 etc. We have seen new bodies form since 1950s, such as ASEAN, SAARC, SCO, CIS, African Union, NAM, some that have now fallen clearly by the wayside, some that have lost their […]
4 November 2021 From almost the very start, the pull out of China from the high table for discussions on COP26 targets was like saying that there would be an examination with no compulsory attendance and whose results would have no bearing on the academic record! While the choice of Glasgow as the venue, where […]
25 October 2021 The US lost a great military mind and most capable diplomat, who had personal credibility and standing that was unheralded for the offices he held on his long record of public service, whether as NSA, as Chairman JCS, as America’s Diplomat in Chief as Secretary of State, or even as a retired […]
24 October 2021 When we discuss these times in the coming decades, there will be a case for how Russia was a missing piece in the plot to keep our global order in balance. How the great animosity of the West to the legacy state of the Soviets was quite unjustified and how a series […]
Gaming The End Game! 16 October 2021 There is no strategist worth their salt who would not wish to delve into scenario making, trying to project current trends in military postures, economic measures and overall slants in Power Projection of CNP into what can be called the ‘Goals’. In the Western gambit that we have […]