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The Shock and Awe Gulf

17 April 2024 At the time of writing, IDF is yet to retaliate against Iran’s fireworks in the sky a few days back. Many observed that it was a night of great significance, almost Biblical when in Moses’ miracles, first born in every house were smitten by the Lord God. For one sitting far removed […]

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America China Geopolitical Strategy Geopolitics

Cold War 2.0 : Domestic Matrix for Democracies

03 April 2021 If you can put partisan politics aside for a moment, then you can actually look at the Burns-Rahul virtual tête-à-tête as perhaps the biggest conversation India and the US had in recent times, which was done in the public domain.It was a very adult conversation, one where the seasoned diplomat was engaging […]

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Human Interest RealPolitik

Cancel Culture? Corrective Arch of Civilisation.

10 March 2021 I was not surprised to hear that Piers Morgan was getting the boot after his comments disparaging Meghan Markle on ITV’s morning show. I have often felt that if television and print media needed one boot right now, it is to boot out Mr Rupert Murdoch, to banish this evil person from […]

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America RealPolitik

Harbour and Harbour

12 December 2020 American election drama was punctuated with the final results announced and a day called Safe Harbor Day, when apparently the US Congress is supposed to accept the decision of individual states electoral college votes as final or incontrovertible. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/us/politics/election-safe-harbor-deadline.html It is as with the US a Congressional law passed after a confusion […]

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America RealPolitik

A Promise that did not quite land!

1 December 2020 Barrack Hussein Obama, is many things, but he was not an African as in a Kenyan nor was he a Muslim as in Hussein, he was not quite the African Slave descendent Black, nor was he from the American heartland. In what can be a attribute of greatness to him, he came […]

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Obama’s Charge!

23 October 2020 The speech was so subtle and so hard hitting in parts that one could see why the US has presidential term limits, else we would have had not just Obamacare, but an Obama era! At Philadelphia in the backdrop of the Lincoln centre, Obama spoke for about half an hour, as if […]

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