At a time when India-US relations were at their frostiest in decades, the youngest ever American envoy to India drove into the embassy compound in a BMW with flashing blue & red lights.
The present punishing visa rules, restrictive employment regime and discriminatory immigration system will not facilitate bilateral trade. A return to normalcy is a precondition.
The main draw at this year’s summit was Trump’s appearance, his first since 2018. The US President spent an hour attacking and defending Europe in the same breath.
‘I will work with Trump on any agenda that benefits New Yorkers. If an agenda hurts New Yorkers, I will also be the first to say so,' said Zohran Mamdani.
In the context of the new emerging global order, India was required to reshape and nuance its foreign policy. It has done so, based on core national interests. Will the EU do the same?
Move comes a day after India was designated by Trump administration as a major drug transit country, and multiple US deportations and visa restrictions earlier this year.
Thanks to Trump’s sudden decision to target India rather than any other country with massive tariffs, many things that ought to have been done earlier are now falling into place.
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.
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.
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.