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About M. K. Bhadrakumar

M. K. Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat.
  • Israa Jaabis, center, a Palestinian prisoner released by Israel, is hugged by relatives as she arrived home in East Jerusalem, Nov. 26, 2023.

    Tread softly on Hamas — for good reason

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on November 29, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    Call them pests or pushers–or simply as Rottweilers–the Israeli diplomats have gained notoriety over time as a unique breed in the international circuit who have no time or patience for niceties or propriety when Tel Aviv instructs them to go for the jugular veins of the host country where they are assigned.

  • Palestinians work in the debris of buildings targeted by Israeli airstrikes in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza, Nov 1, 2023

    Arab-Iran amity is a geopolitical reality

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on November 9, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    The forthcoming first visit by Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi to Saudi Arabia on November 13 marks a milestone in the rapprochement between the two countries mediated by China in March. The relationship is fast acquiring a qualitatively new level of solidarity in the context of the Palestine-Israel conflict.

  • A joint meeting of the US and five Arab foreign ministers took place in Amman on November 4, 2023 to discuss the Palestine question

    U.S., Israel to open second front in Lebanon

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on November 6, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    The announcement late Sunday night by the U.S. Central Command [CENTCOM] headquartered in Doha about the arrival of a Ohio-class American nuclear submarine in its “area of responsibility” presages a significant escalation of the situation around the Palestine-Israel conflict.

  • Military

    Biden gives booster dose to the faltering Ukraine war

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on October 21, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    The prognosis of “war fatigue” on the part of the United States and its allies in the proxy war in Ukraine was greatly exaggerated. On the contrary, the war is acquiring a new swagger.

  • Long-range cruise missiles supplied by UK and France, hit Russia’s Black Sea fleet at its home port of Sevastopol, Sept 13, 2023

    ‘Biden’s phase’ of Ukraine war is beginning

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on September 17, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    The ground war in Ukraine has run its course, a new phase is beginning. Even diehard supporters of Ukraine in the western media and think tanks are admitting that a military victory over Russia is impossible and a vacation of the territory under Russian control is way beyond Kiev’s capability.

  • G20 leaders at Rajghat paying homage to Mahatma Gandhi, New Delhi, September 10, 2023

    G20 is in need of genuine reform

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on September 12, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    India being the host country, the triumphalist tom-toming that G20 summit on September 9-10 was a “success” is both understandable and probably justifiable.

  • G20

    U.S. stoops to conquer Global South with some Indian help

    Originally published: RT News on September 11, 2023 (more by RT News)  |

    The impact of the G20 Summit in New Delhi on September 9-10 is to be measured by the consensus reached regarding the conflict in Ukraine.

  • Nigeriens participate in a march called by supporters of coup leader Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani in Niamey, Niger, July 30, 2023. Poster reads: ”Down with France, long live Putin.”

    Niger rejects rules-based order

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on August 8, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    The coup in the West African state of Niger on July 26 and the Russia-Africa Summit the next day in St. Petersburg are playing out in the backdrop of multipolarity in the world order. Seemingly independent events, they capture nonetheless the zeitgeist of our transformative era.

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) met Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, St. Petersburg, July 23, 2023

    Glimpses of an endgame in Ukraine

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on July 25, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    The problem with the war in Ukraine is that it has been all smoke and mirrors.

  • Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi (C) with Director of Foreign Affairs Commission of Communist Party of China Central Committee Wang Yi (L) and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (R) at trilateral meeting, Jakarta, July 12, 2023

    Politics of hedging in the Indo-Pacific

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on July 18, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    New Zealand’s estimation matters because it is a small country in Southern Pacific heavily dependent on trade with China for preserving its prosperity and yet one of the Five Eyes (along with the U.S., UK, Australia and Canada), the exclusive secretive security grouping of Anglo-Saxon countries. 

  • Tank

    Russia won’t let Ukraine be bleeding wound

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on June 17, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    Russian President Vladimir Putin: “Kiev has lost 186 tanks, 418 armoured vehicles, losses mounting,” St. Petersburg, June 16, 2023

  • Top Ukrainian intelligence official Kirill Budanov has proposed a 100-km-long demilitarised zone between Ukraine and Russia

    U.S. hopes to snatch victory from jaws of defeat in Ukraine

    Originally published: U.S. hopes to snatch victory from jaws of defeat in Ukraine on May 21, 2023 (more by U.S. hopes to snatch victory from jaws of defeat in Ukraine)

    The G7 Leaders’ 2700-word statement on Ukraine, issued in Hiroshima after their summit meeting glossed over the burning question today–the so-called counter-offensive against the Russian forces.

  • Moscow Kremlin

    Zelensky regime’s fate is sealed

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on May 4, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    Make no mistake, this is a tipping point; the clumsy attempt on Putin’s life jolts the kaleidoscope beyond recognition.

  • Russian forces delivered massive strikes on Ukrainian military facilities to disrupt the planned “counteroffensive”

    Whither Ukraine’s counteroffensive?

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on May 2, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    The month of May has arrived but without the long-awaited Ukrainian “counteroffensive”.

  • Russia’s T-14 Armata Next Gen. Tank Deployed to Ukrainian Frontlines

    Who gains from a forever war in Ukraine?

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on April 26, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    The newly elected president of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel is an unusual European politician. He is the second president in his country with a military background but the first without political experience. 

  • External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar (L) and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov at a Russian-Indian business forum organised jointly by the Ministry of External Affairs & Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry, New Delhi, April 17, 2023

    Pivotal moment in India-Russia relations

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on April 25, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    Most relationships undergo transition with the passage of time from appreciation of each other to a “state of having,” a desire to possess or even to control the other. But the present pivotal moment in the Russian-Indian relationship shows that an equal relationship does not fall into that trap.

  • The spectre of tactical nuclear missiles haunts Europe.

    Moscow calls out U.S.’ rules-based order in Europe

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on March 27, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    Baroness Goldie is an experienced Scottish politician and life peer who served as Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party from 2005 to 2011 and as the UK’s Minister of State for Defence since 2019. She is anything but a party girl like Liz Truss who often had to swallow her indiscreet words betraying ignorance.

  • A convoy of US armoured vehicles patrolling the occupied territories of northeastern Syria bordering Turkiye (File photo)

    U.S. is stirring up the Syrian cauldron

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on March 26, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    The circumstances surrounding the flare-up in Syria between the U.S. occupation forces and pro-Iranian militia groups remain murky. President Biden claims that the U.S. is reacting, but there are signs that it is likely being proactive to create new facts on the ground.

  • UN Security Council held a meeting on women and peace and security at UN Headquarters, New York, March 7, 2023

    Foreign devils on the road to Afghanistan

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on March 12, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    On March 7, the western powers huddled together in Paris for a restricted meeting on Taliban and the Afghanistan situation.

  • Nord Stream Pipeline explosion ({Photo: Reuters)

    Norway’s atonement for Nord Stream sabotage

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on February 17, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    Famous American journalist Seymour Hersh exposes the sabotage of Nord Stream gas pipelines by the US and Norway in Sept 2022

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