The defining moment in US President Joe Biden’s press conference at the White House last Wednesday, during President Zelensky’s visit, was his virtual admission that he is constrained in the proxy war in Ukraine, as European allies don’t want a war with Russia. To...
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Italy Distances from ‘Cancellation’ of Russia
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Dec 9, 2022 | Featured Articles
Noam Chomsky once wrote that the astronomical cost of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, estimated into trillions of dollars, is a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The Ukraine war too...
Conflict in Ukraine is Doomed to Escalate
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
The meet-up location of NATO foreign ministers on November 29-30— Bucharest — was where ten years ago, former US President George W. Bush persuaded America’s transatlantic partners that Ukraine and Georgia should one day join their military alliance. The foreign...
The West Bullies Iran, Again
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 8, 2022 | Featured Articles
The manner in which Tehran handled its drone deal with Russia has been somewhat clumsy. The fact that the first ‘leak’ on this topic originated from none other than President Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan should have alerted Tehran that something...
Who’s Afraid of US Troops in Ukraine?
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 3, 2022 | Featured Articles
Very innocuously, the Biden Administration has ‘sensitised’ the world opinion that American troops are indeed present on Ukrainian soil in Russia’s immediate neighbourhood. Washington made a “soft landing” with an unnamed senior Pentagon official making the disclosure...
Ukraine War is ‘Biden’s war’ Now
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
The most obvious explanation to the mysterious air dash of the UK Defence Minister Ben Wallace to Washington on Tuesday could be that he was canvassing for the support of the Biden Administration for his pitch to succeed Liz Truss as Britain’s next prime minister. But...
A perfect storm in US foreign policy
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 11, 2022 | Featured Articles
The old adage is that a good foreign policy is the reflection of the national policy. A perfect storm is brewing on the foreign policy front in America triggered by the OPEC decision on Thursday to cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day, which will on the one...
Russian regrouping in Kharkov will speed up Battle of Donbass
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 13, 2022 | Featured Articles
The New York Times has disclosed that the US shared vital intelligence with the Ukrainian military and took part in the preparation of the latter’s current “counteroffensive” near Kharkov. No matter the Biden Administration’s motivations in publicising its role in...
US Taunts Russia to Escalate in Ukraine
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
An UAV hit the roof of the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, Sevastopol, Crimea, August 20, 2022 In military terms, the crude, locally assembled drone dropping a country-made bomb or two on unguarded sites in Crimea are at best pin pricks in the big picture of...
Ukraine war of Attrition at Inflection Point
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
The great beauty about the war of attrition is that the military strategy of belligerent attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy may not necessarily achieve the intended strategic success. Worse still, it may remain inconclusive and it becomes difficult to...
Lavrov is on Blinken’s List of People to Call
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a press availability at the State Department on Wednesday made the dramatic announcement that he intends to speak to his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov “in the coming days … for the first time since the war began” in...
Ukraine Grain Deal is a Feel-Good Event. But Road to Peace is Long and Winding
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
The agreements signed in Istanbul on Friday regarding the export of grain out of Ukraine and Russia catch the headlines as a major development from the angle of global food security, which it surely is. Between around 22 million tonnes of grain from last year’s...
EU Economies are Down on Their Knees
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 6, 2022 | Featured Articles
On July 1 at the White House, US President Joe Biden made a startling disclosure that “the idea we’re going to be able to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term.” American gas exporters have positioned themselves accordingly...
A Pivotal Moment in Eastern Ukraine
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 27, 2022 | Featured Articles
The retreat of Ukrainian troops from Severodonetsk city in the Luhansk Oblast of the country is a pivotal moment in the ongoing conflict. The Russian forces are now almost in total control over the Luhansk region. The latest reports from front lines say Russian forces...
Next 100 Days of Ukraine War
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
The New York-based Council on Foreign Relations held a videoconference on May 31 titled Russia’s War in Ukraine: How does it end? The president of the think tank Richard Haas chaired the panel of distinguished participants — Stephen Hadley, Prof. Charles Kupchan,...
Creating Cold War Conditions in Asia Isn’t Easy
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 10, 2022 | Featured Articles
Only three weeks remain for the summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in Madrid, which is expected to unveil a new Strategic Concept aimed at redefining “the security challenges facing the Alliance and outline the political and military tasks...
Biden Tweaks Ukraine Narrative
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 2, 2022 | Featured Articles
Yars ICBM launchers participated in drills of Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, Ivanovo region, northeast of Moscow, June 1, 2022 The US President Joe Biden’s op-Ed in the New York Times on Tuesday on the Ukraine war starts with a bluff. He says President Vladimir...
Russia’s Ukraine operation has no deadline
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
In his first extended remarks in nearly a month about the conflict in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that peace talks had reached a “dead end” and pledged that Russia’s “military operation will continue until its full completion.” Putin...
US Shows the Exit Ramp to Russia
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jan 3, 2022 | Featured Articles
Getting off your high horse is never easy and it remains to be seen how deftly Moscow navigates its path in the downstream of President Vladimir Putin’s 50-minute phone conversation Thursday with his American counterpart Joe Biden. Washington highlighted that the...
A Hybrid War to Replace Afghan ‘Forever War’?
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
The British newspaper Daily Telegraph did some kite-flying in the weekend that London is considering open-ended deployment of a contingent of elite special forces to Afghanistan “ to provide training to Afghan units and deploy with them on the ground as advisers.” At...
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