A Friendly Warning from India to the American Midwest The Sabbatical Solution: An Open Letter to the American Heartland What if the best way to save the American century is to step off the global chessboard entirely? Writing as a friend from India, “The Unknown Sri Vaishnava” delivers a blunt, numbers-backed warning to the averageContinue reading “The Sabbatical Solution (The Gorbachev Redux)”
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INDIA INDEPENDENCE DAY SPECIAL: The Dynamic Use of “Soft Power”: How America and India, in Their Own Ways, Have Enlarged Joseph Nye’s Theory
by M.K.Sudarshan August 15, 2026 : Chennai, India This Op-Ed is dedicated to India on its Independence Day, 15 August 2026. America and India possess immense “soft power”, but they deploy it toward different ends. America has often used cultural attraction, political ideals, and diplomacy to legitimise global leadership and sustain a hegemonic order. India,Continue reading “INDIA INDEPENDENCE DAY SPECIAL: The Dynamic Use of “Soft Power”: How America and India, in Their Own Ways, Have Enlarged Joseph Nye’s Theory”
The “Mecca Defence Pact” and the Illusion of Davos: Why Middle Powers are Arming to the Teeth.
by M.K.Sudarshan August 14, 2026: Chennai, India As the US-Iran war shatters international law, the newly signed Mecca Accord reveals a grim truth: the liberal dream of cooperative trade blocs is dead. By fusing Saudi capital, Turkish defense tech, and Pakistani military mass, this new “Islamic NATO” signals a volatile new era of raw, multi-polarContinue reading “The “Mecca Defence Pact” and the Illusion of Davos: Why Middle Powers are Arming to the Teeth.”
The morning after Donald Trump took the world down with him over a precipice (an imagined scenario)
by M. K. Sudarshan August 13, 2026: Chennai, India The sun rose over Washington on Wednesday, August 12, 2026, casting a pale, sickly amber light through the windows of the Oval Office. President Trump sat behind the Resolute Desk, his television screens muted but flashing a chaotic montage of fire and steel. Seventy-five days ofContinue reading “The morning after Donald Trump took the world down with him over a precipice (an imagined scenario)”
Why I Dare to Critique the Worldviews of Both Samuel Huntington and John Mearsheimer (Concluded)
by M.K.Sudarshan August 7, 2026: Chennai, India
Why I Dare to Critique the Worldviews of both Samuel Huntington and John Mearsheimer
by M.K. Sudarshan August 6, 2026: Chennai, India IntroductionThe global architecture is fracturing in real-time. From the devastating missile strikes in the Persian Gulf to the shifting security matrices of the Indo-Pacific, the modern world feels increasingly chaotic. To make sense of it all, the foreign policy establishment routinely relies on two towering academic frameworks:Continue reading “Why I Dare to Critique the Worldviews of both Samuel Huntington and John Mearsheimer”