The American Nobel laureate Pearl S. Buck handed down to the Nobel-aspirant American president Donald Trump a golden maxim but he seems oblivious of it — although his life is made of a surfeit of fiction. She wrote in her gripping historical novel The Living...
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Middle East in Crisis After US Bombing of Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
The former President and Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev who is one of the most authoritative voices in the Kremlin, wrote on the Telegram channel on June 23 a critique on the Middle East crisis following the US attack on Iran’s three key...
Trump Orders ‘Unconditional Surrender’ by Iran. Who’s Listening?
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
Israel’s blitzkrieg against Iran five days ago is failing spectacularly. The Russian media reported that: i) Israel’s Rafael weapons complex has been destroyed; ii) Haifa oil refinery is in flames; iii) the Iron Dome has been breached; iv) and, Israel’s air dominance...
Trump Won’t Walk Away from Ukraine War
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
One of the mysteries of the Ukraine endgame is that President Donald Trump did not issue an executive order on January 20 withdrawing all support for Ukraine. That would have been the easiest way to end the war. The conditions were propitious — Candidate Trump...
Russia and the US made “three steps forward” after two days of consultations in Washington
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 7, 2025 | Featured Articles
The visit by the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and special representative of the Russian president for investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev to Washington on April 2-3, the first such visit by a senior Kremlin official since 2022, appears to...
Trump-Putin Parley is a Bit Under the Weather
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Mar 31, 2025 | Featured Articles
The Kremlin apparently came to the conclusion last week that it was about time to do some plain-speaking that US president Donald Trump’s quest for a 30-day ceasefire in the Ukraine war was a non-starter. Over the weekend, in a series of remarks, Trump reacted...
Trump Hypes up Tensions with Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Mar 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon “to launch a decisive and powerful military operation” against the Houthis of Yemen with “overwhelming lethal force” in the most significant military action of his second term, to date. The US...
Netanyahu Entraps Trump in a Quagmire
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Seldom, if ever, one gets to pick up the threads of what one had written 3 days back as conjectures. But my prognosis that “the sea side view” of Gaza is mesmerising President Donald Trump and his special envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff, two great real estate...
Ukraine War Turns into Absurdist Fiction
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jan 8, 2025 | Featured Articles
ESTRAGON: Don’t touch me! Don’t question me! Don’t speak to me! Stay with me!VLADIMIR: Did I ever leave you? ESTRAGON: You let me go.— Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett One great transformation of the Ukraine war in the past year since the current Russian offensive...
Putin weighs in on the Syrian situation
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Dec 23, 2024 | Featured Articles
Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his Results of the Year annual marathon yearender interactive televised discussion with the Russian public and the media in Moscow on December 19, spoke at some length on the recent developments in Syria. These...
Winners and losers in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Dec 9, 2024 | Featured Articles
Iran and Russia are the two big losers in the ouster of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday by the Sunni Islamist groups affiliated to al-Qaeda. Assad fled in the nick of time after giving orders that there be a peaceful handover of power. The likelihood...
Atlanticists Mobilise to Salvage NATO as Russia Toughens its Stance
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 29, 2024 | Featured Articles
The American film maker and philanthropist who created the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, George Lucas, once said, “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.” Within a week of Russia “testing” the...
West Asia reacts to Trump’s dalliance with Zionism
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
The election victory of Donald Trump in the November 5 election is being perceived in the West Asian region with growing anxiety as presaging the US aligning one hundred percent with the Zionist project for Greater Israel. Although Trump has kept out vociferous...
Israel’s ‘zugzwang’ Moment with Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 28, 2024 | Featured Articles
A senior US official told Washington Post that the toned-down early morning Israeli strike Saturday on military targets in Iran was a “proportional strike,” which “was moderate enough to quiet the conflict without provoking Iran into a counterattack.” However,...
Zelensky’s Victory Plan is his Survival Kit
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 24, 2024 | Featured Articles
Strana, one of the top online newspapers in Ukraine, which is banned in Russia since 2022, reported on Friday that Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky is planning to dismiss Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and the powerful military intelligence chief Gen....
Ukraine War Turns into Russian Roulette
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
The UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with the US President Joe Biden in the White House on Friday with the question of the use of long-range missiles by Ukraine to hit deep inside Russia on their agenda of conversation. But there were no announcements, nor was...
US has Ukraine’s Back in Kursk Incursion
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
As the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region rolls on, war conditions have appeared in Russia for the first time since the Second World War. It is a stunning experience that an estimated 180,000 people have become internally displaced. Ukrainian...
Iran to hit Israel hard with smart power
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
Amidst the cascading tensions in the Middle East following the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh by Israel and vows of ‘revenge’ in Tehran, the new government under President Massoud Pezeshkian, sworn in on Tuesday, made its first move on...
Death of Petrodollar is a Biden legacy
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Deep State should have been alert five years ago when Candidate Joe Biden announced that he, if elected as president, was determined to make the Saudi rulers “pay the price, and make them in fact the pariah that they are.” Biden was blunt to the point of being...
Countdown Begins for Russia’s Ukraine Offensive
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | May 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
A study by the Harvard Business School in experimental psychology relating to people’s tendency to “shoot the messenger” came up with a startling finding that such human behaviour stems in part from a desire to make sense of chance processes. Simply...
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