Two years into the War that has set Ukraine aflame and is nearly destroying the country, America and the EU — so-called NATO allies — now seem to be dancing around each other in a macabre embrace of death. Last week President Macron embarrassed President Biden by dropping a diplomatic grenade at a EU summitContinue reading “A Theatre of the Absurd in the world of Western Diplomacy”
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BRICS+6 Identity Crisis: An alliance of fair-weather friends or frenemies?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-08-25/brics-identity-crisis The identity crisis of BRICS+6 in my opinion will emerge sooner or later caused mainly by the following 6 reasons: 1. China and India are going to be competitors in world trade in the next 2 decades. 2. India’s membership of QUAD which is a formation to contain China will very soon be conflictedContinue reading “BRICS+6 Identity Crisis: An alliance of fair-weather friends or frenemies?”
What has AMERICA really gained from, or hope to gain, from the Ukraine War ? Does anyone in the world really know ?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/ukraine_an_expendable_country_may_soon_run_out_of_expendables.html Pretty grim and sad reading indeed is the above very well-informed analysis on the current status of the Ukraine war. If has been forwarded to me by very good friend and ex-colleague, Mr. Igor Afansiev, a Ukrainian national himself, who had been forced to leave last year his native city of Kiev, along withContinue reading “What has AMERICA really gained from, or hope to gain, from the Ukraine War ? Does anyone in the world really know ?”
“The Economist” (UK) on America’s new best friend, INDIA
Here’s my own take on this editorial published in the latest issue of of The Economist UK : (please scroll right down to read the reproduced piece) 1. The title should have been rephrased as “ America’s new best fair-weather friend”. 2. India is certainly more democratic and far less liberal than the West. Why?Continue reading ““The Economist” (UK) on America’s new best friend, INDIA”
At last India now has a diplomat with a whiplash tongue that’s more than 56 inches long !
No punches pulled … India’s EAM and diplomat S. Jaishankar puts an Austrian TV anchor in his place … with devastating zingers ! Never before in history have I heard an Indian Foreign Minister speak so candidly and authoritatively in a foreign forum… Usually they would hum and haw and mumble vaguely and duck loadedContinue reading “At last India now has a diplomat with a whiplash tongue that’s more than 56 inches long !”
“To live with each other is to die together…”
If Russia didn’t pipe the warmth drawn out from beneath its deep soil , European homesteads would shiver in the Cold. When I look at this chart, I am able to visualise at once on a panoramic mental screen the 500+ years of European History that came before and went after the reign of theContinue reading ““To live with each other is to die together…””