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 […]
16 February 2023 In recent memory, no one quite anticipated this present state that the Anglican led Western World has reduced itself to. It took a set of plain speaking efforts from venerable investigative journalist Hersh Seymour, from rebel asylum seeker and whistleblower Edward Snowden, and from Swedish expert Lars Bern, to paint a picture […]
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, […]
3 February 2023 When the war started in Ukraine, nearly a year ago, no one could have predicted that this would be a long drawn campaign as it turned out to be. Now guess estimates of Ukrainian conflict would stretch to 2024 winter, as we can see that the Russian strategy of militarily forcing Ukraine […]
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 […]
12 January 2023 Soledar has fallen, even though the West is officially yet to concede this. It is a huge victory for the Russian ground forces, and when this is widened to include Artemovsk and Bahmut main, the position of the Russians now in the centre of Ukraine appears very poised militarily. Coincidentally and may […]
5 January 2023 No one who is observing the Ukrainian situation ever envisaged that the New Year’s Eve or the Festive spirit of Christmas would bring a lull to the campaign or avoid bloodshed. A winter which is yet to freeze the slurry and loose earth that is now the steppe of Ukraine is one […]
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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