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Friday, December 19, 2025
TopicCold War

Topic: Cold War

Spy thrillers from the cold war need to make a comeback

Western spy fiction needs state actors with strong non-Western or, better, anti-Western values to become exciting again.

Democracy-mongers should face up to an ugly reality: It often generates chaos

Democracy remains a radically destabilising force, not a magical formula that, for all its repeated failures, keeps its vendors in stable employment.

At 70, why NATO is tense and divided, grappling with deep political fissures

There have been questions about the purpose & future direction of NATO since 1991, but its problems became more pronounced after Donald Trump became US President in 2017.

18 years after Sept 11, we live in a post-post-Cold War world

Since the mid-2000s, Russia's Vladimir Putin has structured his politics and regime around the idea of the American enemy and the danger posed by free societies.

Nehru was pursuing a Kashmir solution with Pakistani support, but Cold War came in the way

Nehru's plan would have solidified status quo, allowing Pakistan to incorporate portion of Kashmir under its control, and India to do the same.

Not just Nehru, even sister Vijaya Lakshmi had strong reasons to decline UNSC permanent seat

Nehru declined UNSC offers because ensuing entanglements would likely have rendered India a muted marionette in Cold War.

World’s most significant security conference warns of toughest challenge since Cold War

Munich Security Conference says liberal world order now being dismantled by Donald Trump’s presidency, among other threats.

Trump and Putin play chess over Venezuela, and the inner workings of Theresa May’s mind

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

How Xi Jinping emerged as the most important and disruptive leader in the world

An increasingly powerful China under Xi Jinping has led international observers to fear the possibility of a new Cold War.

Former US president George H W Bush dies at 94

George HW Bush, a decorated war pilot and former CIA chief, helped steer America through the end of the Cold War while serving as the country's 41st president.

On Camera

Why India fell off the global middle-class map

A stunted middle class may be a direct result of extreme inequality. Folks at the top don’t see teeming masses as a meaningful market, except for utilities, soap, short videos, and personal loans.

India’s inflation figures tell a growth story, a cautiously optimistic one

Based on inflation figures for the last three months, RBI is expected to look for confirmatory evidence that can mark the beginning of a sustained decline in core inflation.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.