6 May 2022 Never before in history it would seem that greatness has been delivered to a nation, in such a perfunctory fashion. Greatness in terms of economic and technological prowess, on a platter by the extant order, out of sheer desire of maximising profit. China benefited by the World War II defeat of Japan, […]
Tag: Ukraine Flashpoint
3 May 2022 When the British Foreign Office choses to address Ukraine as part of ‘return of geopolitics’ you know that finally the West is prepared after months old war of increasing attrition there, to reveal the scape goat! You see the clear picture that Putin had managed to simply raise suspicions about, that Ukraine […]
27 April 2022 The word from the front is best described as ‘fog of war’. In this week gone by, the world must have noticed how 2 months have passed, a campaign of manoeuvre has now altered into one where attrition has happened in a few places. What now even the West acknowledges is that […]
18 April 2022 Chronicling an ongoing conflict is never an easy thing, especially, when you are a passionate peacenik, an idealist, a person of a very tolerant and all embracing creed that relies on the mysticism of Cosmic Dancer and his teaching about directly experienced oneness. Yet, the very Cosmic Dance is called the Tandava […]
11 April 2022 We saw on this blog of 25 March 2022, if the narrative of the West about Russian performance was correct or if there was a plausible alternative that Putin was merely shuffling his pack and playing with options and opportunities as they arose in the face of unfolding events in Ukraine. As […]
3 April 2022 https://t.me/vorposte/18109 A Russian armored train in the Zaporozhye region evacuates Ukrainian civilians and foreigners to the Russian Crimea. For Indians and for military historians everywhere, 3 April is a special day, as it the birth anniversary of India’s post Independence, finest military leader, FM Sam Manekshaw. Like how India created the plans […]
29 March 2022 The larger contours of this current conflict lie in what is simply an ‘understanding of history’. If the Russians view Ukraine as their ‘motherlode’ of culture, as once an integral part of Russia with Odessa rivalling St Petersburg, and the Russian Naval Fleet itself headquartered for centuries at Sevestapol and calling itself […]
25 March 2022 When initially analysts were writing of Russia’s Special Military Operations in Ukraine, they were of the view that Putin wanted to simply overthrow the Ukrainian regime led by President Zelensky and replace it with a pliant one. There was a rider to this, which said that the easier this was done, the […]
18 March 2022 . I wonder if many from India would today have paused their celebrations with the ‘riot of colours’ to reflect on the horrors that are visiting Ukraine. I engaged with some analysts abroad to explain that the very Indians who once were pained with the haunting words that alluded to Indian braves […]
15 March 2022 We have seen now in the meanwhile, how the campaign in Ukraine is afoot. Presently Russian forces are now widening their military arc, moving swiftly to target Western Ukraine with airstrikes in Yavoriv which hosts a centre for military training for UN peacekeeping where until the US pull out, Florida National Guard […]
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