One of the important lessons in modern economics they never formally taught me when I was at university is that when faced with impending woe and imminent recession, the two most effective policy-measures a nation’s leaders will resort to while trying to dig themselves out of the hole they themselves in the first place dugContinue reading “Macroeconomics they never taught me at university : “The Zelensky Effect””
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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 ?”
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”
Let me give it a shot at imitating CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and his “Here’s my Take”!
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-russia-cooperation-is-resilient-says-senior-chinese-diplomat-2022-04-19/ Some expert analysts of international and geopolitical/Geo-strategic affairs have been waxing eloquent in journals like The Foreign Affairs, the Economist, WSJ, The Atlantic etc. about how the Ukraine war has serendipitously succeeded in uniting the NATO alliance which was until recently beginning to fray and dissipate in Europe . No Western expert however caredContinue reading “Let me give it a shot at imitating CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and his “Here’s my Take”!”
The way the USA deals with India reminds me of the old Hollywood blockbuster, THE GODFATHER
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/countries-that-are-seeking-advantage-us-fence-sitter-jibe-at-those-ignoring-sanctions-against-russia-101649849006418-amp.html The HINDUSTAN TIMES 13 April 2022 The above news report is on Janet Yellen, US Treasury Secretary , calling India a “fence sitter” taking advantage of the Ukraine War as a self serving opportunity to achieve its own foreign policy goals. The 2+2 Meeting in Washington held a few days ago this week betweenContinue reading “The way the USA deals with India reminds me of the old Hollywood blockbuster, THE GODFATHER”
“WAR MUST BE PERMANENT”: THE CREDO OF IMPERIALISM and the “Cebrowski Doctrine”
https://www.news18.com/amp/news/world/depressed-putin-orders-nuclear-evacuation-drill-moves-family-to-secret-safe-city-in-siberia-sparks-panic-4890932.html The UK Daily Mail The UK Daily Mail is a tabloid that often peddles sensationalism as news … So, the above report must be taken with a bagful of salt. However, if it’s true then either it means the beginning of the end of current war in Ukraine or the beginning of another freshContinue reading ““WAR MUST BE PERMANENT”: THE CREDO OF IMPERIALISM and the “Cebrowski Doctrine””
The remarkable similarity between Mr. Joe Biden and Mr.Clement Atlee!
British PM Clement Atlee in 1947 wrote to Lord Mountbatten the last British Viceroy of India who was in charge of transferring power from the British Crown to Independent India : “Keep India united if you can; if you can’t, then try save some of the wreck; in either case, get Britain out of there”.Continue reading “The remarkable similarity between Mr. Joe Biden and Mr.Clement Atlee!”
My own little private “Ukraine War diary” entry: 12 March 2022 …
Putin agrees to send ‘volunteers’ to UkraineRussian President Vladimir Putin agreed to invite volunteers to participate in Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.“If you see that there are people who want on a voluntary basis, especially not for money, to come and help people living in the Donbas – well, you need to meet themContinue reading “My own little private “Ukraine War diary” entry: 12 March 2022 …”
The Dogs of War that will bring back the Era of the Cold War
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”
The Double-speak of POTUS, Joe Biden that the Ukrainians are not beware of …
Below is an excerpt from President Biden’s speech to his people in which he justified America’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan and hand that country over to the Taliban which was its sworn enemy for 20 years. Remarks by President Biden on AfghanistanAUGUST 16, 2021SPEECHES AND REMARKSEast Room4:02 P.M. EDT “American troops cannot and shouldContinue reading “The Double-speak of POTUS, Joe Biden that the Ukrainians are not beware of …”