Modi’s personal rapport with both Biden & Trump and bipartisan endorsement of current state of bilateral ties, will further ensure the continuity of this “strategic partnership”.
Much of the South Carolina Republican Party has endorsed Trump. It indicates a key issue in the 2024 election cycle: Trump’s personality and stranglehold over Republican voters.
Fox News' Tucker Carlson has built an audience by advocating ‘Trumpism’, ideology propagated by Republican ex-President. He had predicted Trump's win months before he triumphed.
In episode 438 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta traces the chronology of events in India and US that led to partial lifting of ban on export of hydroxychloroquine.
The world watched aghast as police armed with tasers, tear-gas masks—and in one case backed up by snipers—arrested hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at universities across the United States.
The Asian Development Outlook 2024 report suggests that policymakers in the region should monitor a number of risks. These include escalating conflicts and geopolitical tensions.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Russia never should’ve received Lend-lease from the U.S. in WWII and the West never should’ve given eastern Europe to Stalin. Instead they should’ve listened to U.S. Gen. Patton and destroyed the Russian military.
If Europe cannot take the United States for granted, after 75 years of NATO, new friends in the Asia – Pacific should take note. Some believe the Ukraine conflict is attributable to the eastward expansion of NATO. The policy of containment of China, which now includes a large economic component, to the extent of undoing globalisation, could also create an unpleasant outcome. Taiwan to provide the spark.
What is lost in all the Ukraine reporting is the basic ‘why’s of the conflict. Russia doesn’t pose a threat to continental europe. They simply can’t prevail against the combined might of NATO so the spectre of a Russian conquest east of Ukraine is a myth. Russia is interested in keeping its border states outside of any US led military alliance, just as the US was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The EU, especially France, was at the beginning of the war, sensitive to these concerns. According to Dr. John Mearsehmier, the US and UK essentially forced EU into this long war by scuttling the Nafthali Benett led negotiations in Istanbul. Now however the EU, and particularly Macron, has made a volte face, declaring that their ‘credibility’ is at stake. The reluctant EU has now morphed into the spearhead of the support mission. Why? Dr. Arta Moeni thinks that it is a project for greater ‘nationhood’ for the EU in which Ukraine is an unfortunate pawn. I’d like to see other opinions on the why. While the number of shells Ukraine gets and the various political instruments of supplying it are important, the whys of the affair are far more interesting to read.
Russia never should’ve received Lend-lease from the U.S. in WWII and the West never should’ve given eastern Europe to Stalin. Instead they should’ve listened to U.S. Gen. Patton and destroyed the Russian military.
If Europe cannot take the United States for granted, after 75 years of NATO, new friends in the Asia – Pacific should take note. Some believe the Ukraine conflict is attributable to the eastward expansion of NATO. The policy of containment of China, which now includes a large economic component, to the extent of undoing globalisation, could also create an unpleasant outcome. Taiwan to provide the spark.
What is lost in all the Ukraine reporting is the basic ‘why’s of the conflict. Russia doesn’t pose a threat to continental europe. They simply can’t prevail against the combined might of NATO so the spectre of a Russian conquest east of Ukraine is a myth. Russia is interested in keeping its border states outside of any US led military alliance, just as the US was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The EU, especially France, was at the beginning of the war, sensitive to these concerns. According to Dr. John Mearsehmier, the US and UK essentially forced EU into this long war by scuttling the Nafthali Benett led negotiations in Istanbul. Now however the EU, and particularly Macron, has made a volte face, declaring that their ‘credibility’ is at stake. The reluctant EU has now morphed into the spearhead of the support mission. Why? Dr. Arta Moeni thinks that it is a project for greater ‘nationhood’ for the EU in which Ukraine is an unfortunate pawn. I’d like to see other opinions on the why. While the number of shells Ukraine gets and the various political instruments of supplying it are important, the whys of the affair are far more interesting to read.