12 March 2022 Few people can understand this predicament than perhaps Tamils…as one of the continuously speaking lingo ethnic groups in the world, who have held out against proselytisation of all forms, retaining their own culture, religious denomination, their medicine, their art, drama and literature, one of the greatest balancing acts that this people have […]
Tag: Ukraine Flashpoint
9 March 2022 Never have I had to pause, because, my muse was driving me to morbid conclusions, those that I have only dread and regret for. When one analyses strategic sweepstakes, one must take the utmost cautions, even while painting a scenario of war, that the wishful thinking that this oeuvre begets is not […]
3 March 2022 For those who grew up reading ‘The Race to the Swift’ or Indian military strategists familiar with General Sundarji and Operation Brasstacks, there would be much to read into the current military strategy of Putin’s Generals. The West and its acolytes in media across countries and ‘democratic systems’ are talking up the […]
2 March 2022 There are many who were fairly surprised by the fact that we are now into a clear conventional military campaign against Ukraine waged by Russia, a war that perhaps only Biden Administration saw clearly as coming. We are now well into the second week of active hostilities. What ever one saw, depending […]
14 February 2022 The West is showing signs of nerves. Clearly from where the Ukrainian President had declared that the situation in Donbas was no different than it was a year back and defusing the hysteria of a Russian invasion, to now the POTUS calling him directly and doctoring to him how the Russians were […]
3 February 2022 In what can be called only as Deep Play, two well versed players of real politik have now lined up to play this game over Ukraine. One only hopes that it will end with what they both have in mind as common goals. It may sound preposterous to the world that Putin […]
24 January 2022 What diplomacy does is to dilute the harshness of truth or reality with sophistry of word play, couched with jargon and ceremony that attempts to insulate it. The problem with diplomacy is not that it misunderstands it’s role, but that it takes its role too seriously. The problem currently besetting Western Diplomacy […]
20 December 2021 If there was a lesson in how the West lost the war of keeping the peace after winning the battle defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, it has been on relentless play for close to three decades now. If the Cold War denouement was a rare opportunity for America to […]
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