Russia’s free running in the Ukraine war in the most recent months is about to end as the Biden Administration has met with success, finally, in the US Congress on the long-stalled Ukraine aid bill. The aid approved by the House on Saturday would send $60.8...
Melkulangara Bhadrakumar
Ukraine’s Survival Hangs in the Balance
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Mar 28, 2024 | Featured Articles
A controversy arose needlessly over the advisory issued by the American embassy in Moscow on March 7 to the effect that “extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts” and warning US citizens to “avoid large...
France All Dressed up and Nowhere to Go
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Mar 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
Ever since its ignominious defeat in the Napoleonic wars, France is entrapped in the predicament of countries that get sandwiched between great powers. Following the World War II, France addressed this predicament by forging an axis with Germany in Europe. ...
Is Ground Beneath Biden’s Russia Policy Shifting?
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Mar 6, 2024 | Featured Articles
The resignation of the US Undersecretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, the third highest ranking diplomat in the Biden administration, came as a bolt out of the blue on Monday. An easy explanation could be that it rankles that she was overlooked for...
Putin’s nuclear warning is direct and explicit
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Mar 4, 2024 | Featured Articles
The spectre of Armageddon has been raised often enough during the 2-year old war in Ukraine that the reference to it in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s state of the union address on Thursday had a familiar ring about it. Therein lies the risk of misjudgement on the...
Nuland leaves sense of foreboding in Kiev
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
The commencement of political upheavals in world affairs sometimes lies with a seemingly obscure event. This is not to say that the shooting down of a Russian Ilyushin-76 military transport plane carrying dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war over the territory of...
China ignores US entreaties of mediation
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured Articles
There is an old proverb that when misfortunes come, they come in battalions. Coming on top of reports of American soldiers going down like nine-pins on a drone strike against the super secret CIA station for intelligence and covert operations on the...
Blinken’s Window Dressing Tour of Arab Capitals
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jan 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
The expectation raised by the United States in allowing a UN Security Council resolution on Gaza pass through on December 22, 2023 without having to exercise its veto — albeit a watered-down one that stopped short of calling for ceasefire — was that the manifest...
Putin Lifts the Fog of War in Ukraine
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Dec 30, 2023 | Featured Articles
Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine is entering a new phase. President Vladimir Putin lifted the fog of war and hinted at what can be expected going forward in a landmark speech at the National Defence Control Centre while addressing a meeting of...
US Embarks on Proxy War Against Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 20, 2023 | Featured Articles
A massive US naval deployment in a wide arc of the so-called Greater Middle East is under way — stretching from Crete in the Eastern Mediterranean, into the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb and into the Gulf of Aden and all the way into the Gulf of Oman. This...
Arab-Iran Amity is a Geopolitical Reality
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 9, 2023 | Featured Articles
The forthcoming first visit by Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi to Saudi Arabia on November 13 marks a milestone in the rapprochement between the two countries mediated by China in March. The relationship is fast acquiring a qualitatively new level of solidarity in the...
US Diplomacy Lost Traction in Middle East. Isolating Iran No Longer Possible.
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 27, 2023 | Featured Articles
Russia’s Dy Foreign Minister & Special Envoy Mikhail Bogdanov (C) held talks with Iran’s Dy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani and Hamas’ head of International Relations Mousa Marzouk, Moscow, Oct. 26, 2023 The US President Joe Biden is convinced that one of the...
Biden Gives Booster Dose to the Faltering Ukraine War
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 23, 2023 | Featured Articles
The prognosis of “war fatigue” on the part of the United States and its allies in the proxy war in Ukraine was greatly exaggerated. On the contrary, the war is acquiring a new swagger. The Biden Administration is riding a tiger and a dismount is fraught with the...
US in a Quandary Over Israel’s War on Gaza
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 13, 2023 | Featured Articles
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s press conference on Thursday concluding his visit to Israel conveyed three things. One, the Biden Administration will be seen as backing Israel to the hilt by way of meeting its security needs but Washington will not be drawn...
Iran warns Israel against its apocalyptic war
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 11, 2023 | Featured Articles
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the graduation ceremony of the country’s military academies, Oct. 10, 2023Amidst growing speculations in the US about Tehran’s involvement in the Hamas’ attack on Israel last Saturday and the reported move by the...
War Fatigue Complicates West’s Aid to Ukraine
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 5, 2023 | Featured Articles
A pall of gloom descended on Europe as the long-feared uncertainty set in over the weekend as to how long would the collective West underwrite the proxy war in Ukraine. To lift their sagging spirit, some European foreign ministers impromptu took the train to Kiev to...
‘Biden’s phase’ of Ukraine war is beginning
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 18, 2023 | Featured Articles
Long-range cruise missiles supplied by UK and France, hit Russia’s Black Sea fleet at its home port of Sevastopol, Sept 13, 2023The ground war in Ukraine has run its course, a new phase is beginning. Even diehard supporters of Ukraine in the western media and think...
France’s colonial legacy, US security concerns intersect in Niger; Russians at the gates look for new hunting grounds
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 17, 2023 | Featured Articles
The military coup in Niger is already three weeks old. The putschists are cementing their rule, having gained the upper hand in the shadow play with the Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS] backed by ex-colonial powers ravaging that desperately poor West...
Niger Rejects Rules-Based Order
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 10, 2023 | Featured Articles
The coup in the West African state of Niger on July 26 and the Russia-Africa Summit the next day in St. Petersburg are playing out in the backdrop of multipolarity in the world order. Seemingly independent events, they capture nonetheless the zeitgeist of our...
Glimpses of an Endgame in Ukraine
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 26, 2023 | Featured Articles
The problem with the war in Ukraine is that it has been all smoke and mirrors. The Russian objectives of “demilitarisation” and “de-Nazification” of Ukraine wore a surreal look. The western narrative that the war is between Russia and Ukraine, where central issue is...
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