Igor Afanasiev, a native of Kyiv in Ukraine, was hired in 2011 as Business Development Manager of a large, multinational investment company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in which I was then serving as its Chief Financial Officer. Igor and I worked as colleagues during the ensuing eight years when we became good friends too. BesidesContinue reading “The Dogs of War that will bring back the Era of the Cold War”
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The Ukraine War is unacceptable to the “international community” since it is a racist exception
https://indica.medium.com/when-war-happens-to-white-people-5612a880ce52 Indi.ca 25 Feb 2022 In truth, what happened to Ukraine is not even the worst war going on right now, if you can admit colored people their humanity. On the same day the Ukraine was attacked, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen were also bombed, the latter 37 times. On the same day, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran,Continue reading “The Ukraine War is unacceptable to the “international community” since it is a racist exception”
Rational thinking is the first casualty in any war …. This chart proves that !
It also proves how tragically perverse is human nature that it lets History go on repeating itself through the ages on the fundamental Thucydidean principle of War that “the strong will do what they can and the weak will suffer what they must”. Sudarshan Madabushi
IS PUTIN REDRAWING BORDERS OR RECLAIMING THEM? IS HE RE-WRITING RUSSIAN HISTORY OR RESTORING IT?
https://theprint.in/world/modern-ukraine-entirely-created-by-russia-read-full-text-of-vladimir-putins-speech/843801/ Putin is not simply redrawing the map of Russia …. He is actually redressing the past mistakes of Russian history … There are 2 specific passage in his hard/hitting speech which clearly confirm that his vision of the future of Russia is neither Leninist, Stalinist or Brezhnevian… It is going to be Putinist. ::Continue reading “IS PUTIN REDRAWING BORDERS OR RECLAIMING THEM? IS HE RE-WRITING RUSSIAN HISTORY OR RESTORING IT?”
Musings on the day after Russia excised the Donbas from Ukraine —- 23 Feb 2022: What does it mean for India?
What is most interesting to me to watch from all the month-long events in 2022 leading up to the event of yesterday when Russia accorded recognition to Doneyetsk and Luhansk is only this: (1) Whether this dramatic Russian coup is going to lead to NATO becoming united or whether it will start disintegrating? and (2)Continue reading “Musings on the day after Russia excised the Donbas from Ukraine —- 23 Feb 2022: What does it mean for India?”
The UN must brace itself for the possible scripting of RoU (Russia-Occupied-Ukraine) much in the way it created PoK (Pakistan-Occupied/Kashmir) and the Israeli West Bank
The above Chart is a real beauty! It points to a diplomatic way out of the messy negotiations going on now between the USA and Russia over Ukraine … in favour of the Western powers. The chart reveals that half of America is fine with imposing sanctions on Russia but not all-out War over Ukraine.Continue reading “The UN must brace itself for the possible scripting of RoU (Russia-Occupied-Ukraine) much in the way it created PoK (Pakistan-Occupied/Kashmir) and the Israeli West Bank”
The crisis in Ukraine is not about Ukraine … it’s about Germany
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-crisis-in-ukraine-is-not-about-ukraine-its-about-germany/ “The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars– the First, the Second and Cold Wars– has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united there, they’re the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn’t happen.” George Friedman, STRATFOR CEO atContinue reading “The crisis in Ukraine is not about Ukraine … it’s about Germany”
Household common-sense and global nuclear-energy economics
Today there are about 440 nuclear power reactors operating in 32 countries, (including Taiwan, which BTW according to China is not a country..) with a combined capacity of about 390 GWe. In 2020 these provided 2553 TWh, about 10% of the world’s electricity. According to recent techno-financial studies by expert groups in the world, theContinue reading “Household common-sense and global nuclear-energy economics”
The World is simply lurching from one kind of MADNESS to another
What the Infographic tells me is this: 1. All the pompous geopolitical and Geo-strategic punditry we hear and read these days from think-tanks and international-relations policy-experts about the world becoming “multipolar” is plain bunkum and politically correct eyewash meant to pull wool over the eyes of the rest of the world … make no mistakeContinue reading “The World is simply lurching from one kind of MADNESS to another”
“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…””