Great powers project invincibility, yet current wars expose their Achilles’ heels: military might fractures without complementary domains, while moral posturing reveals boundless double standards. Russia’s Ukraine quagmire proves even nuclear-armed giants cannot conquer land decisively absent naval mastery. America’s Iran campaign reveals the inverse—even unmatched sea power falters without ground forces. Parallel hypocrisy underscores both:Continue reading “Limits to Great Powers’ Military Might; no Limits to Hypocrisy!”
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Post-Iran attack on February 28, 2026, The World can kiss “New World Order” goodbye.
The day after the Israeli-American attack on Iran and the killing of Ayatollah Khomeini, I couldn’t help falling into a self-introspective mood. Looking back at history, I thought to myself, wasn’t the world always better off when there were many little rogue-nations that nevertheless minded their own business and backyards than now, in sad contrast,Continue reading “Post-Iran attack on February 28, 2026, The World can kiss “New World Order” goodbye.”
A rare piece of irreverent yet so refreshingly truthful journalism
The essay below is a rollicking, bawdy read. It’s full of bar-room profanity typically of the American kind. Such a profusion of choicest four-letter expletives in what purports to be a dubious Op-Ed piece made even me blush a little … and I’m no prude when it comes to occasionally using unparliamentary “pardon myContinue reading “A rare piece of irreverent yet so refreshingly truthful journalism”
A Theatre of the Absurd in the world of Western Diplomacy
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”
“The Gaza Canal”: Conspiracy Theory? Or, grand geo-strategic plan ?
This lady in the video has quite an interesting take on the underlying and publicly not-so-very well-known reason for the Israeli military move to extend its control over the entire Gaza Strip territory. It might sound like a conspiracy theory but many of its aspects seem not implausible … well… not to me, at least. Continue reading ““The Gaza Canal”: Conspiracy Theory? Or, grand geo-strategic plan ?”
“Friendly friends”, “unfriendly friends” and “friendly unfriendlies”.
There are only 4 nations now in the world that have demonstrated capability to orbit and land space-vehicles on the moon — USA 🇺🇸 China 🇨🇳 , Russia 🇷🇺 and now the latest entrant into the exclusive club, India 🇮🇳. President Putin of Russia was the very first one to immediately send his country’s congratulatoryContinue reading ““Friendly friends”, “unfriendly friends” and “friendly unfriendlies”.”
My Sunday morning crystal-ball gazing into global geopolitics
Fareed Zakaria of CNN posed all the right questions to German Chancellor Schulz and got all the right sounding answers. But to me watching the video, the interview sounded pretty menacingly portentous for the future of the world in decades to come. On a quiet Sunday morning yesterday , I couldn’t thus help falling intoContinue reading “My Sunday morning crystal-ball gazing into global geopolitics”
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 !”
Liz Truss’s Freudian Slip: Pax Brittanica through Pax Americana
After India’s Foreign Minister’s ferocious “in your face” comments to UK Foreign Secretary, Ms Liz Truss backed off a bit from starting to lecturing India on how it ought to to conduct its foreign policy towards the Ukraine crisis https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/uk-foreign-secy-meet-jaishankar-says-natural-to-look-for-deals-when-oil-prices-rise-101648753314794-amp.html But then Liz Truss through a revealing Freudian Slip spilt her guts. She couldn’t hideContinue reading “Liz Truss’s Freudian Slip: Pax Brittanica through Pax Americana”
The “Adi Guru” of American Presidents and the “Gangotri” of War Criminality
https://m.timesofindia.com/world/europe/biden-calls-putin-a-butcher-while-meeting-refugees/amp_articleshow/90463855.cms BIDEN CALLS PUTIN “A BUTCHER” This morning President Biden, after publicly calling President Putin a week ago as a “war criminal”, went a step further calling him a “butcher” who “for God’s sake, must not (be allowed to) rule Russia”. Biden seems to be losing mental stability … and rapidly too. This is notContinue reading “The “Adi Guru” of American Presidents and the “Gangotri” of War Criminality”