Tag Archives: War

In God We Trust: The Mother of All Trust Deficits — and the Death and Resurrection of Trust

Is “In God We Trust” a prayer—or a confession?

We print trust on currency, promise it in elections, demand it from banks, courts, doctors, journalists, and algorithms—then watch it thin beneath the winds of betrayal, spin, and institutional failure.

Beginning tomorrow: “In God We Trust: The Mother of All Trust Deficits—and the Death and Resurrection of Trust.”
Nine dialogues between two students of a Vedic university in South India—Ānanda, the restless sceptic, and Madhava, the contemplative Vedāntin—move from Eden’s first broken trust to the modern crisis of credibility, media, democracy, and institutional entropy.

At the centre lies a Sri Vaishnava question: when every earthly refuge trembles, can the soul find its final shelter in mahāviśvāsam—unshakeable trust in the Lord’s grace?

Nine days. Nine dialogues. One question: can Trust rise again?

Narayana! Narayana! Narayana!

What happens in a world where red lines drawn by Goliath are no longer respected by Davids?

As Washington’s deterrence fades, regional powers are rewriting the rules of global diplomacy. Discover how a fractured giant and asymmetric defiance are ushering in a volatile new era of messy multipolarity.

THE FORTRESS IN THE MIRROR

What happens when Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte stride into the Situation Room to lecture Donald Trump on military strategy?

A hilarious, sharp 3-act satirical script on the impossible geometry of modern asymmetric warfare in Persia.

“Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilisation?” — Part I of 2

A century after Mahatma Gandhi delivered his famously sardonic critique of Western Civilisation, the global monoculture he challenged faces an unprecedented twilight.

Spanning the volatile centuries before the Industrial Revolution to the cold, zero-sum geopolitical chessboards of Halford Mackinder, this two-part long-form essay traces how the West exported its systems through military and financial might while aggressively silencing alternative ideas. As the ten great ideological pillars of this 500-year-old framework face systemic collapse, humanity now steps into an ideological void.

Explore a bird’s-eye view of history, the inquisitional nature of institutional orthodoxy, and why Gandhi’s inscrutable retort remains the ultimate epitaph for an empire in retreat.

The “Pentagon Smokescreen”: The World’s Best-Selling, Most Expensive Literary Genre

A sharp, tongue-in-cheek satirical spoof inside an elite military academy, revealing how the Pentagon rebrands raw violence, failed excursions, and exorbitant budgets into clinical, bureaucratic corporate synergistic spin.

The Sabbatical Solution (The Gorbachev Redux)

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)”

“Operation Economic Fury”: Strategic Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing?

The US Treasury’s new “Economic D-Day” campaign against Iran represents a masterclass in macroeconomic coercion. However, as geopolitical realists point out, breaking an economy does not automatically halt an asymmetric military machine.My latest Op-Ed breaks down the structural flaws of the attrition model, the reactions of vital neighbors like Turkey and Pakistan, and why total isolation might trigger a global energy crisis instead of a stable political transition.

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)”

The Twin Pillars of “Bharatiya Sanskriti”: Mapping the “Purusharthas” through Epic Thesis and Anti-Thesis, the “Yin and the Yang”

by M.K.Sudarshan August 12, 2026: Chennai, India 📌 At a Glance: The Architecture of Indian Civilization “What is Bharatiya Sanskriti? Look no further than the two epics. The Ramayana is all about what Dharma is, and the Mahabharata is all about what Dharma is not.” ⚖️ DHARMA (Virtue): The unyielding standard of absolute self-sacrifice (Rama’s exile)Continue reading “The Twin Pillars of “Bharatiya Sanskriti”: Mapping the “Purusharthas” through Epic Thesis and Anti-Thesis, the “Yin and the Yang””

Why I Dare to Critique the Worldviews of Both Samuel Huntington and John Mearsheimer (Concluded)

by M.K.Sudarshan August 7, 2026: Chennai, India