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#Ukraine: A Few Dollars More?

28 April 2024 When American Congress voted to allocate a further 61Billion $ US to Ukraine for this year, the aid came along with a 17 Billion $ US for Israel. Comparatively Ukraine received significantly reduced outlay for carrying out operations against the Russians who are now geographically redefining the SMO by regularly reducing Ukrainian […]

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#Ukraine: NATO’s Options

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 […]

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#Ukraine: The Chinese Choice

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) […]

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State of The Nation: Spooked by a balloon

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, […]

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Quad Squad- A quartet conceding no quarter?

15 February 2022 The Quad which was rebooted with great fanfare during this pandemic by its first heads of government summit virtually now has fresh eyes to look at it after the AUKUS disruption of last year.Indeed, in the midst of the current heat over Ukraine and Eastern Europe, few indications have emerged that inform […]

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Putin’s Double Thrust- The Indian Cart

6 December 21 It is not something that one could expect from many leaders, but Putin as President has always been exceptional. This is what he does and where he makes his daring do such a normal feat of his presidency so far. Akin to riding bare horse, bare chested, or what have you, Putin’s […]

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South China Sea- The Tuna Block Lessons

1 December 2021 For those who read this, the familiarity with 9 dash lines, the ruling by Permanent Court of Arbitration in 2016 against the 9 dash line claims of PRC /CPC China, and the background of Chinese attempts to build islands out of shallow shoals and reefs to boost her territorial claims in these […]

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#AUKUS: Beyond Partnerships and Platitudes-1

 26 September 2021 The storm clouds had been gathering for quite some time now, starting with how Libya was handled and how the US handling of Syria was criticised by even closest allies. For some time now, American power was evidently distracted and disoriented, or if you were from the other side, diluted and decrepit, […]

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