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About M. K. Bhadrakumar

M. K. Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat.
  • 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

  • The Uzbek grid prepares to receive gas supplies from Russia

    Russia’s gas union eyes Pakistan, India

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on January 30, 2023 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    Pakistan’s acute energy crisis is the immediate backdrop against which Foreign Minister Bilawal Zardari’s forthcoming talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow today need to be understood.

  • A T-72 tank of the Russian Armed Forces is pictured in Donetsk

    Who’s afraid of U.S. troops in Ukraine?

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on November 2, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    Very innocuously, the Biden Administration has ‘sensitised’ the world opinion that American troops are indeed present on Ukrainian soil in Russia’s immediate neighbourhood. Washington made a “soft landing” with an unnamed senior Pentagon official making the disclosure to the Associated Press and the Washington Post. 

  • Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Oct 18, 2022 that evidence of military personnel of United States and other Western countries having their boots on the ground in Ukraine is mounting.

    Ukraine war is ‘Biden’s war’ now

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on October 21, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    The most obvious explanation to the mysterious air dash of the UK Defence Minister Ben Wallace to Washington on Tuesday could be that he was canvassing for the support of the Biden Administration for his pitch to succeed Liz Truss as Britain’s next prime minister.

  • A perfect storm in US foreign policy

    A perfect storm in U.S. foreign policy

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on October 11, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    The old adage is that a good foreign policy is the reflection of the national policy.

  • The troika leading the far-right coalition that won Italy’s election: Giorgia Meloni (R), Silvio Berlusconi (C) and Matteo Salvini (L)

    Fascism returns to Europe’s centerstage

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on September 26, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    Meloni insists that she isn’t a fascist herself, yet her party’s flag includes the symbol of the old pro-Fascist party— the tricolor flame.

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Samarkand, Uzbekistan, September 16, 2022

    India’s gaffe at Samarkand

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on September 20, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Samarkand on September 16 after the SCO Summit turned into a media scandal.

  • Russian regrouping in Kharkov will speed up Battle of Donbass

    Russian regrouping in Kharkov will speed up Battle of Donbass

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on September 12, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    The New York Times has disclosed that the U.S. shared vital intelligence with the Ukrainian military and took part in the preparation of the latter’s current “counteroffensive” near Kharkov.

  • On a Kandahar outpost, a motivational poster on blast walls ringed with concertina wire, walling US troops off from Afghanistan. (File photo)

    Doing business with Taliban Govt

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on August 30, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    In no time after the retreat from Afghanistan, NATO is already immersed in another proxy war in Europe, and the alliance, at U.S. behest, is lurching toward the Arctic to counter Russia and China’s “big plans for the polar region.”

  • A HIMARS vehicle on deployment in Eastern Ukraine (File photo)

    Ground beneath Zelensky’s feet is shifting

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on August 27, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    Reading and rereading the U.S. President Joe Biden’s statement last Monday on Ukraine Independence Day, one is reminded of English poet John Keats’ immortal line, ‘Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter.’ Three things are striking. 

  • An UAV hit the roof of the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, Sevastopol, Crimea, August 20, 2022

    U.S. taunts Russia to escalate in Ukraine

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on August 21, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    In military terms, the crude, locally assembled drone dropping a country-made bomb or two on unguarded sites in Crimea are at best pin pricks in the big picture of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. But it can be profoundly consequential in certain other ways.

  • Photo Credit: The Cradle

    Russia, Turkey launch new economic ‘roadmap’

    Originally published: The Cradle on August 8, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    The Putin-Erdogan meeting in Sochi has rapidly accelerated Russian-Turkish economic initiatives and financial ties. These include bypassing western sanctions, integrating money transfers, and trading outside the dollar.

  • Prime Minister Yair Lapid

    With eye on the CIA, Moscow cracks the whip at Israel

    Originally published: The Cradle on July 25, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    The Jewish Agency is Israel’s life source and the Kremlin shut it down this month. The fallout may be a measurable schism between Moscow and Tel Aviv, in which the latter has a lot to lose.

  • Gazprom’s Nord Stream gas pipeline, Lubmin, Germany

    Russia teaches Europe ABC of gas trade

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on July 20, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    The unthinkable is happening for the second time in five months: Russian gas giant Gazprom writes to German gas companies announcing force majeure effective from June 14, exonerating it from any compensation for shortfalls since then. 

  • Pakistan’s ousted president Imran Khan trounces his opponents by a wide margin in their own stronghold of Punjab. Photo Credit: The Cradle

    Imran Khan rewrites Pakistan’s political history

    Originally published: The Cradle on July 18, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    Against the odds and powerful rivals pitted against him, former PM Khan’s win in Punjab elections is a victory for democracy and Pakistan’s sovereignty

  • Normandy Format Summit Held in Paris | Photo: picture alliance

    Ukraine peace talks in the cards?

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on July 16 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    Finance ministers are the pangolins in the world of international diplomacy, solitary animals and predatory, unlike foreign ministers who are like glowworms, mesmerising and gorgeous animals that create light through their tail.

  • Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

    India to boost Sakhalin-1 oil output

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on July 10, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    After Sakhalin-2, Moscow also plans to nationalise Sakhalin-1 oil and gas development project by ousting U.S. and Japanese shareholders. But Moscow will make an exception for India so that OVL which holds 20% stake will remain & continue to work.

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin (L), at a meeting with Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu, revealed proposals of army commanders in Ukraine “for the development of offensive operations”, Moscow, July 4, 2022

    EU economies are down on their knees

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on June 5, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    On July 1 at the White House, U.S. President Joe Biden made a startling disclosure that “the idea we’re going to be able to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term.”

  • L-R) Romanian President Iohannis, Italian PM Draghi, Ukrainian President Zelensky, French President Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 16 June 2022.

    West at inflection point in Ukraine war

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on June 19, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    Henry Kissinger predicted some three weeks ago that the Ukraine war was dangerously close to becoming a war against Russia. That was a prescient remark. The NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in a weekend interview told Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper that in the alliance’s estimation, the Ukraine war could wage for years. 

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