5 October 2024 As a blog, a relatively prolonged absence could mean death of interest. For sometime now, a recalcitrance has gripped this space, since the ‘meat grinders’ and ‘meta’ narratives had become such a routine, that the very soul of the analyst was ensnared and benumbed, pausing as much for fresh air and hope […]
Tag: Thucydides'Trap
10 July 2024 Preamble: For close to half a millennia what we have seen are the rise to power of a force that is Christian in its religious beliefs, that is fuelled by Capitalism, and that has established the concept of Market Economics and Free Trade. Fundamentally, it is founded on the notions of superiority […]
11 January 2024 The headlines are quite misleading, editorials are even more so. The narrative is now more clear on social media than in any other media, so much so that the virtual presence which is largely unverifiable has been weaponised by software giant India into what can be preliminarily dubbed as ‘troll diplomacy’. Indian […]
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) […]
29 October 2022 When Putin announced the launch of Special Military Operations in Ukraine, unlike what the West assessed, it was evident that this was a logical step up in Russian efforts to convince Ukraine from going the NATO way. Where President Biden and his situation room did not act was where Kennedy as President […]
15 February 2021 I will just stick my neck out to say that there is enough evidence in lore and historical plates, to prove that while British Isles offer glimpses of this in their history with wars between England, Scotland, Wales, Irish, before the United Kingdom came about, Tamil history never ended with such finality. […]