24 January 2021 Finally we can begin to gaze away from the most important Western Democratic system and nation state, the USA and focus elsewhere. For actually on 20 January 2021, there were no surprises in the script. Of course we saw American raw power of her popular culture on display all day, starting with […]
Category: Geopolitics
16 January 2021 It was curious to read that President Xi was asking the boss of Starbucks to play good samaritan and renew high level contacts with incoming Biden administration to ‘ease the US China economic relations’! This tall request from Xi comes at a time when Biden may not exactly reset the button for […]
11 January 2021 It is just as well that Subramanian Swamy is amongst those writing a book https://www.jstor.org/stable/45242276?seq=1 in the context of Ladakh, https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/himalayan-challenge-india-china-and-the-quest-for-peace-review-the-search-for-a-new-modus-vivendi-with-china/article33528241.ece for if there is any one close to being claimed as a RW Intellectual, by simply the way of his persuasion currently, Mr Swamy would fit the bill. I have read […]
Flashville @ Nashville
26 December 2020 I have waited for some time to see if any details will emerge that could be confirming my initial analysis of what went down in the main streets of Nashville, in front of its tallest building belonging to AT& T on Christmas morning in the State of Tennessee.My initial thoughts were simple […]
23 December 2020 If four years ago I had seen a US military member mention the word- ‘take over’ I would have simply baulked at it and dismissed it as nonsense. If any country was coup-proof after India, it was the USA! Yet watching General Michael Flynn actually mouth words to that effect https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/19/politics/trump-oval-office-meeting-special-counsel-martial-law/index.html, with […]
20 December 2020 Before we take things to mean more than what they are, Mr Rahul Gandhi’s walking out of a Parliamentary Committee hearing on Defence is being interpreted by too many people and with such bias that I cannot understand.Look at farmers being blamed as misled by Pakistan and China! It is as if […]
Persia Engulfed
28 November 2020 There is the usual conversation going about how President Trump is not a regular president when it came to national security matters, how neither does he read the Daily Presidential Brief, nor does he hold sacred stuff that has been Presidential privilege to know. Yet what happened in an innocuous thoroughfare in […]
25 November 2020 One of the worst decisions taken by President Trump was his firing of Secretary Defense Mr Esper for refusing to kowtow his desire to pull out American Troops from Afghanistan before the end of his term, ahead of any verifiable mutual agreement between the Taliban and the Afghan government at Kabul https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-how-will-a-u-s-drawdown-impact-afghanistan/. […]
Xinjiang-Chink In China?
23 November 2020 As we study the contours of the conflict in the Caucasus region, the attention of any one who has interest is drawn to the ethnic nature of this conflict. How Turkic people are driving this Azeri effort to take back territories lost in the first Karabakh war of 1990s is not the […]
17 November 2020There are many efforts at trying to portray how a Biden Harris administration would look at the world, and while now it is clear that Biden ticket will end up close to 80 million popular votes with a clear margin of almost as many votes that Trump added to his 2016 successful electoral […]