In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, the ruling pigs led by Napoleon constantly rewrote history in order to justify and reinforce their own continuing power. The rewriting by the western powers of the history of the ongoing conflict in Syria leaps out of Orwell. The...
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US-Russia Tensions Flare Up on Multiple Fronts
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 5, 2020 | Featured Articles
Amidst the escalating tensions with China, the United States should have kept the troubled relationship with Russia on an even keel. But the opposite is happening. For the first time since the presidential election in Belarus on August 9, Washington has openly sided...
Anatomy of Coup Attempt in Belarus
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 1, 2020 | Featured Articles
The Russian President Vladimir Putin disclosed in a TV interview on August 27 that the Americans, amongst others, had fuelled the unrest in Belarus. He explained that the controversial presence of 33 Russian nationals (with military background) in Minsk in the run-up...
Iran 'snapback' sanctions is a pantomime. Spectacle to watch is Trump-Putin summit.
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 21, 2020 | Featured Articles
As expected, the Trump Administration delivered letters on Thursday to both the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and to the president of the Security Council Dian Triansyah Djani notifying them that the United States is initiating the restoration of virtually all...
Trump foreign policy enters lame duck period
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 24, 2020 | Featured Articles
There was a time when President Trump’s personalised diplomacy seemed a hydra-headed phenomenon with tentacles reaching far and wide. He engaged such diverse politicians — from Shinzo Abe and Kim Jong-Un to Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi, from Mohammed bin Salman and...
US Uneasy as Iraq Gets New Prime Minister
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured Articles
In happier times, Washington and Tehran might well have zeroed in on Mohammed Tawfik Allawi as their consensus candidate for the post of Iraq’s prime minister. Why not? He was opposed to Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship — although, unlike most Shia politicians who fled...
Ukraine Gains From Trump’s Impeachment Inquiry
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
The controversy swirling around the phone conversation between the US President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky regarding the business interests of former vice-president Joe Biden’s son is having a salutary effect on the conflict in Ukraine. The...
Aramco Attack a Defining Moment in US-Saudi Alliance
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
A series of interviews of Democratic presidential candidates opposing President Trump in the 2020 election by the Council of Foreign Relations in New York reveal that the perceptions regarding US-Saudi ties have dramatically changed in the Washington beltway. Two...
Trump Fine-Tunes Peace Deal With Taliban
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
The US President Donald Trump’s remarks at the Oval Office in the White House on August 20 regarding the Afghan peace talks and related issues exuded an overall sense of satisfaction that the “endless war” is finally ending —although issues still remain to be sorted...
A Sino-Russian Firewall Against US Interference
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
A sit-in at Hong Kong international airport, Aug 9, 2019China has explicitly accused the United States and Britain for fomenting the “pro-democracy” protests in Hong Kong. Beijing has taken up the matter via the diplomatic channel demanding that the US intelligence...
Iran’s Zarif drives Trump to insanity
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 5, 2019 | Featured Articles
At a time when the Trump administration has no problem negotiating with the secretary of the Russian national security council Nikolai Patrushev, who is technically under US sanctions since April 2018, the cut and thrust of Washington’s move to sanction Iran’s Foreign...
Ukraine Remains the Signpost of World Politics
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
The ice in the frozen lake shifting is one of the coolest sounds you can hear. The air is cold but not freezing, and the woods are silent. The frozen lake looks like it’s been stopped in time, but beneath the placid surface it keeps shifting and moaning. The...
US Credibility Dented in Iran Standoff
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
The US President Donald Trump’s reported decision abruptly to call off military strike against Iran which he’d previously ordered, highlights the growing complexity of the US-Iranian entanglement. Indeed, it takes political courage to rationalise amidst such a...
Iran can be Trump’s Nemesis
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
What a coincidence that a leaked document from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) just exposed that the chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria in April, 2018 was most likely staged. In security parlance, it was a false flag operation —...
Iran to Even the Nuclear Score With US
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | May 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
It is going to be 30 years in another six months since the USS Abraham Lincoln, named in honour of the 16th US President, was commissioned on Nov.11, 1989 as the 5th Nimitz-class aircraft carrier of the American Navy. Now, as it leaves Croatia and heads toward the...
Governing Ukraine is No Laughing Matter
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
Comedy, it is often said, is unusual people in real situations and farce is real people in unusual situations. No doubt, it can be said that by electing comedian Vladimir Zelensky as their new president in a landslide victory in Sunday’s runoff, the people of Ukraine...
China’s PLA Troops in Venezuela is Game Changer
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
(Chinese PLA personnel pose with members of Venezuela’s National Bolivarian Armed Forces, March 29, 2019)The reported arrival of Chinese military personnel in Venezuela last weekend is undoubtedly a major event in world politics. Unlike Russia, which has a history of...
Russia Throws Down the Gauntlet to US on Venezuela
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Mar 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova acknowledged in Moscow on Tuesday that Russian “specialists” are indeed in Venezuela within the ambit of a 2001 military-technical cooperation agreement with Caracas. Zakharova underscored that Russia’s bilateral...
Trump’s Golan is a Megalomaniac’s Own Goal
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Mar 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
The US President Donald Trump’s decree on March 26 granting official US recognition to Israel’s illegal annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights does not create any new fact on the ground. Trump’s motivations are fairly clear — boost Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s...
US Leaves Trail of Bitterness in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Dec 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
On December 17, Ankara was notified of President Trump’s decision on troop withdrawal from Syria. During an earlier phone conversation between him and President Recep Erdogan on Dec 14, Trump had pointedly asked and elicited a positive response from the Turkish leader...
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