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TopicGeorge Bush

Topic: George Bush

Foxhole ‘comrades’ to NATO membership for Russia: Timeline of Bush-Putin bromance & how it ended

Documents released covering 3 summits between the two Presidents in 2001, 2005 & 2008 showcase a relationship that began with camaraderie but ended in bitter differences over NATO expansion.

‘Pakistan a junta with nuclear weapons,’ a wary Putin told Bush in 2001, wanting West to do more

Russian President expressed concerns over Pakistan’s proliferation programme with then US President in 2001 & 2005. Bush too raised fears over Pakistan support for Iran’s nuclear plan. 

When George Bush ‘behaved like a little boy’ with Atal Bihari Vajpayee

At the 6th Atal Bihari Vajpayee Memorial Lecture attended by retired officials, army chiefs, and academics, Kanwal Sibal and ex-COAS VP Malik shed light on the former PM’s adept handling of complex diplomatic situations.

China’s hypersonic missile test got US, India racing. It exposes BMD vulnerability

What happens when initial nuclear weapons are fired? India must realise hypersonic missile is part of a larger power chase.

Donald Rumsfeld, Bush’s Pentagon chief & face of muscular US military policy, dies at 88

During the 1970s, Rumsfeld became the youngest-ever defense secretary, at age 43, in President Gerald Ford’s administration. He died Tuesday at his home in Taos, New Mexico.

18 years, 2,300 deaths & $978 bn later, why America’s Afghan war is being called a failure

The figures were revealed in an investigative report, titled The Afghanistan Papers, published by The Washington Post Monday.

Why Russian President Vladimir Putin is a ‘shrewd’ tactician but ‘lousy’ strategist

ThePrint takes a look at how the implosion of the Soviet Union and the decade long chaos that ensued had a lasting effect on Putin.

Yes, we can’t

The victory of the underdog in such an unforgiving society is something that fires your imagination. But there's more behind this elation than merely the colour of Obama's skin.

Show them the money

The great foreign policy challenge for India at this moment is to finally dump the old mindset of a lobbying nation and celebrate its new status as a buying power.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.