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,...
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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...
Ukraine: US Doubles Down, Russia is Cool
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 23, 2024 | Featured Articles
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...
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...
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