Thailand aborts the colour revolution
Originally published: Indian Punchline on August 9, 2024 (more by Indian Punchline) |
The curtain has come down on the abortive colour revolution in Thailand with the country’s Constitutional Court ordering the dissolution on Wednesday of the anti-establishment opposition party Move Forward, widely regarded as a U.S. proxy.
Sheikh Hasina was a time-tested friend
Originally published: Indian Punchline on August 9, 2024 (more by Indian Punchline) |
There is a problem, fundamentally, in viewing the regime change in Bangladesh as a ‘stand-alone’ event.
Winds of change in India-China relations
Originally published: Indian Punchline on July 30, 2024 (more by Indian Punchline) |
There is an expectation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would prioritise a historic turnaround in India’s relations with China as a legacy of his 15 years in power. Things are indeed moving in such a direction.
India-Russia ties take a quantum leap in the fog of Ukraine war
Originally published: Indian Punchline on July 12, 2024 (more by Indian Punchline) |
The lodestar of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on July 8-9, it must be the disclosure by the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration in the Kremlin Maxim Oreshkin that the two leaders discussed the topic of cash payments with the use of cards of national payment systems as an important element of trade support infrastructure and interaction in general.
Death of petrodollar is a Biden legacy
Originally published: Indian Punchline on June 14, 2024 (more by Indian Punchline) |
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.”
China springs a BRI surprise on U.S.
Originally published: Indian Punchline on June 10, 2024 (more by Indian Punchline) |
The report of the death of China’s Belt and Road Initiative [BRI] was an exaggeration, after all.
Geopolitics is moving North Korea’s way
Originally published: Indian Punchline on January 23, 2024 (more by Indian Punchline) |
In less than three years, the erosion in the U.S. hegemony that began cascading with the defeat in Afghanistan in August 2021 spread to Eurasia, followed by the massive eruption in West Asia by the end of 2023.
An anniversary West would rather forget
Originally published: Indian Punchline on January 16, 2024 (more by Indian Punchline) |
An epochal anniversary from the annals of modern history is coming up in another ten days that remains a living memory for the Russian people. The Siege of Leningrad, arguably the most gruesome episode of the Second World War, which lasted for 900 days, was finally broken by the Soviet Red Army on 27th January 1944, eighty years ago to be exact.
Tread softly on Hamas — for good reason
Originally published: Indian Punchline on November 29, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline) |
Call them pests or pushers–or simply as Rottweilers–the Israeli diplomats have gained notoriety over time as a unique breed in the international circuit who have no time or patience for niceties or propriety when Tel Aviv instructs them to go for the jugular veins of the host country where they are assigned.
Arab-Iran amity is a geopolitical reality
Originally published: Indian Punchline on November 9, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline) |
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 context of the Palestine-Israel conflict.
U.S., Israel to open second front in Lebanon
Originally published: Indian Punchline on November 6, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline) |
The announcement late Sunday night by the U.S. Central Command [CENTCOM] headquartered in Doha about the arrival of a Ohio-class American nuclear submarine in its “area of responsibility” presages a significant escalation of the situation around the Palestine-Israel conflict.
Biden gives booster dose to the faltering Ukraine war
Originally published: Indian Punchline on October 21, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline) |
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.
U.S. faces defeat in geopolitical war in Gaza
Originally published: Indian Punchline on October 16, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline) | (Posted Oct 17, 2023)
The era of petrodollar is ending—and along with that, the U.S.’ global hegemony.
‘Biden’s phase’ of Ukraine war is beginning
Originally published: Indian Punchline on September 17, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline) |
The ground war in Ukraine has run its course, a new phase is beginning. Even diehard supporters of Ukraine in the western media and think tanks are admitting that a military victory over Russia is impossible and a vacation of the territory under Russian control is way beyond Kiev’s capability.
G20 is in need of genuine reform
Originally published: Indian Punchline on September 12, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline) |
India being the host country, the triumphalist tom-toming that G20 summit on September 9-10 was a “success” is both understandable and probably justifiable.
Niger rejects rules-based order
Originally published: Indian Punchline on August 8, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline) |
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 transformative era.
Glimpses of an endgame in Ukraine
Originally published: Indian Punchline on July 25, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline) |
The problem with the war in Ukraine is that it has been all smoke and mirrors.
Politics of hedging in the Indo-Pacific
Originally published: Indian Punchline on July 18, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline) |
New Zealand’s estimation matters because it is a small country in Southern Pacific heavily dependent on trade with China for preserving its prosperity and yet one of the Five Eyes (along with the U.S., UK, Australia and Canada), the exclusive secretive security grouping of Anglo-Saxon countries.
Russia won’t let Ukraine be bleeding wound
Originally published: Indian Punchline on June 17, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline) |
Russian President Vladimir Putin: “Kiev has lost 186 tanks, 418 armoured vehicles, losses mounting,” St. Petersburg, June 16, 2023
Zelensky regime’s fate is sealed
Originally published: Indian Punchline on May 4, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline) |
Make no mistake, this is a tipping point; the clumsy attempt on Putin’s life jolts the kaleidoscope beyond recognition.
