Cdr Abhilash Tomy (Retd) completed the 2022 edition of Golden Globe Race Friday. The race, which starts & ends in seaside town of Les Sables-d'Olonne in France, began on 4 Sept 2022.
Gaurav Shinde had to weather plenty of storms before qualifying for Golden Globe Race, which involves circumnavigating the globe without using any technology devised after 1968.
Why should the US care? Because in the end, as its wrangle with Britain this week should have reminded them, America still needs bases, friendly ports, & overfly rights.
Multiple companies have invoked the principle of ‘force majeure’, which lets a party off the hook in case of unforeseen ‘acts of God’, to avoid penalties.
IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
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