29 July 23 Warning: To treat this as fictional or factual, the risk is with the reader. Sometime this month, a centurion centenarian stepped into the arc lights, flanked by the most powerful men of the Middle Kingdom, marking perhaps a milestone once more, five decades later, after he was first conveyed as ‘baggage’ aboard […]
Category: Geopolitics
Selective espousal of universal concerns mars liberal champions and delegitimises their cause! 19 July 2023 In a fortnight from now, #Ukraine will enter a new phase of this hybrid campaign, not just with the advent of cluster munitions into the battle zone supplied by Americans, but beyond the turf of Ukrainian ‘meat grinder’ fields, and […]
12 July 2023 In what can be called a cross roads, NATO finds herself once more as an alliance seeking relevance in the modern post Cold War Epoch, when the global commons have just emerged from a debilitating pandemic and are seeking equity and economic cooperation to rebuild themselves and their populations. Global Poverty had […]
4 July 2023 Who would have predicted that France would be engulfed in violence, with protests rocking major centres and regions, besides besieging the capital Paris. The situation has led to French President Macron postponing his state visit to his key and closest European ally- Germany. And it has reopened France’s colonial and post colonial […]
27 June 2023 The last word on the Wagner coup is yet to be written and probably decades from now to, there will be a gap between the premise and promise of this climatic chaos that swirled upon Russia for over 24 hours…Yet, if one were to banner any thing from this churn, like how […]
25 June 2023 The 24 hours that have gone by must be characterised as an edge of the seat ride, careening into a seeming abyss of chaos and anarchy for Putin’s Russia, who till then seemed to be steadfast in their defensive lines across the three major thrust lines of the counter offensive underway for […]
16 June 2023 Choosing a time when one can call a military campaign with some credible clarity is always fraught with danger. However going merely by headlines of last 10 days in major Western news websites and broad sheets, one can tell that the Ukrainian counter offensive has not managed on ground the kind of […]
9 June 2023 Since the first week of June involves the Normandy beach landing commemorations, the narrative symphony of western media was full throttle on how the Ukrainians were now going to launch their much awaited Spring Offensive, and how as some commentators averred the Ukrainian efforts could lead to end of President Putin himself […]
29 May 2023 China was staring at a Thucydides Trap apparently, with the USA reenergising her Asia Pacific presence and alliances, including actively cultivating partnership through Quad and bilaterally with India, who being China’s next door neighbour and gate way to the Indian Ocean, should have been the Canada to China in Continental Asia (CONAS) […]
28 May 2023 From what has transpired over the last fortnight, this much is clear that Ukraine appears not to be really sanguine about a conventional counter offensive that has been in the works and talks of the Western capitals that support Kyiv. Indirect evidence suggests that Ukraine’s senior military leader, Commander in Chief General […]
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