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

  • Military equipment given by Japan to Ukraine being loaded in an aircraft at Yokota US Air Force Base, Japan (File photo)

    Creating cold war conditions in Asia isn’t easy

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on June 9, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    Only three weeks remain for the summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in Madrid, which is expected to unveil a new Strategic Concept aimed at redefining “the security challenges facing the Alliance and outline the political and military tasks that NATO will carry out to address them.”

  • Russian Tu-95 strategic bomber

    Indo-Pacific power dynamic in radical shift

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

    The joint air patrol over the waters of the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea on Monday by an air task force composed of Russian Tu-95MS capable of carrying nuclear weapons and Chinese H-6K strategic bombers couldn’t have been a knee-jerk reaction to U.S. President Joe Biden’s Asia tour, leave alone his provocative remarks conjuring up an apocalyptic U.S.-China war over Taiwan. 

  • Ukraine after 90 days of war

    Ukraine after 90 days of war

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on May 25, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    Amidst intense fighting under way, Russian forces entered Severodonetsk city in Luhansk, Donbass region, May 24, 2022

  • Azov fighter posing in front of Nazi posters, Mariupol, Ukraine.

    In the wake of Russian victory in Mariupol

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

    Thank God, Russia eschews any triumphalism over the surrender of the so-called neo-Nazi Azov regiment in the Azovstal factory complex in Mariupol. The Defence Ministry in Moscow announced on Friday that a total of 2,439 “Azov Nazis” and Ukrainian servicemen had laid down their arms since May 16, and that the entire Azovstal complex is now under control of Russian forces. 

  • Winners and losers: West Asian geopolitics are shuffling during the Russia-Ukraine conflict, as states are increasingly forced to take sides.

    Iran makes gains as Israel, Turkey test Moscow’s limits on Ukraine

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

    Under pressure to side with the west on Ukraine, Israel and Turkey risk falling out with Russia–which will benefit Iran in the long-term.

  • Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) with visiting UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, New Delhi, April 22, 2022

    U.S. narrative won’t survive defeat in Donbass

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on April 23, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    An extraordinary thing about British diplomacy is that it continually looks for ways to stay ahead of the curve and provide added value to its customer across the Atlantic, the United States. That makes the remarks on Ukraine conflict by the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at his press conference in New Delhi on Friday highly significant.

  • Albatross, famous migratory bird, is also a love bird. It is known for being monogamous, forming long-term bond with one partner that is rarely broken. Mated pairs never split up until one bird dies.

    Migratory birds of mass destruction

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

    Highly sensitive materials from the Ukrainian biological laboratories were exported to the U.S. in early February just before the Russian special operation began, and the rest were ordered to be destroyed lest they fell into Russian hands. But the cover-up was only partially successful. Indeed, Russia is in possession of highly incriminating evidence.

  • The US may control a handful of Pakistani political and military officials, but PM Imran Khan owns the street. Photo Credit: The Cradle

    U.S. ousts Imran Khan but his revolutionary narrative endures

    Originally published: The Cradle on April 5, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    Washington has reactivated old cronies in Islamabad to unseat PM Imran Khan, but the latter has sown seeds of immense dissatisfaction with the old guard and their U.S. backers within the Pakistani public. And Khan’s domestic and foreign allies will not sit by idly either.

  • Ukrainian troops prepare to fight Russian forces in Donbass

    Fake news in Kiev heralds cruel April

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on April 4, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    An indignant Moscow has angrily demanded a United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday over the allegations of atrocities by Russian troops in areas around Kiev through the past month.

  • China’s State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) with Acting Prime Minister of Interim Government Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, Kabul, March 24, 2022

    China’s diplomacy on a roll in Kabul

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on March 29, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    Last Thursday, the Acting Foreign Minister of the Taliban interim government Amir Khan Muttaqi made a stunning remark to greet the visiting Chinese Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Kabul when he said, “This is the most important high-level delegation received by Afghanistan.”

  • Prime Minister Modi and President Biden (File photo)

    India, U.S. have different priorities

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on March 23, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    An extraordinary week has passed for the Modi government’s dalliance with the Quad. Call it a defining moment, a turning point or even an inflection point—it has elements of all three. 

  • Prime Minister Modi chaired a meeting of Cabinet Committee on Security and top officials, New Delhi, March 13, 2022

    India should quit Quad now!

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on March 14, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    This is a moment of truth, therefore, as the U.S. unsheathes the sword to bleed and dismember Russia, and gives an ultimatum to China to stay out of it. 

  • Ukrainian ‘refugees’ wait at a train station in Zahony, Hungary, a border town with Ukraine, February 26, 2022 (Photo: AP)

    We’re Europeans, Christians, Whites!

    Originally published: Indian Punchline on March 1, 2022 (more by Indian Punchline)  |

    “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed” 
    – Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze

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