31 December 2023 It is very easy to sign off with a note of optimism in usual times. However, the previous days that club to become this 2023 have been any thing but usual. In 2022, no one thought that Ukraine would continue to be on the boiler, but now we face the opening up […]
Tag: Ukraine Flashpoint
9 December 2023 Disclaimer: This is a fictionalised version of global affairs and real countries or persons mentioned here are for purposes of narrative understanding and not to be construed as factual portrayal. The Emperor sighed as the lights dimmed around him in Forbidden City, whose Denizens had worked toward quelling the unrest in his […]
26 November 2023 The treatise of statecraft must have an essential element of power projection judged by the ability of the player to ‘keep the peace’. As much as militaries are instruments to wage war, a true military prowess would be the ability to ensure peace and war only at a time, place and for […]
2023 November 3rd Premise: The attendant avalanche of information that is coming from OSINT and official sources suggests the following:- Without going into who are the good guys and who the bad, we can just see how the period of consolidation of the Global South that has been midwifed by President Putin and to some […]
22 October 2023 The US Navy gathered a flotilla led by Air Craft Carrier USS Gerald R Ford tasking it with keeping in check Israeli aggression even as POTUS landed in Isreal and openly asked that her decision makers not repeat the mistakes made by the US after 9/11. However outwardly the reason for the […]
8 October 2023 If the vaunted Israeli intelligence network using AI could not foresee the use of para glider scooters to vault over the walls and land in settlements, if they could not predict the reverse of what they did, that there was no significant threat ahead of the 50th Anniversary of the Yom Kippur […]
6 October 2023 If any worthy mentioned that this global order which seemed settled for a bit would face upheavals in this form within 2 years of then Australian PM Morrison declaring a Climate of Strategic Uncertainty, then they were clearly Gods Of Tomorrow. Or they were the leadership of Azerbaijan. If there was any […]
9 August 2023 Like how the American Establishment used the term ‘Star Wars’ to herald a competition of space based weaponry that escalated the Arms Race and triggered the Perestroika and Glasnost transformation of the Soviet Union and brought about the dissolution of the ‘Evil Empire’ shortly thereafter, decades later, it appears that the State […]
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 […]
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 […]