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  • | Moscow Kremlin | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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”.

  • | Russias T 14 Armata Next Gen Tank Deployed to Ukrainian Frontlines | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 Italys election Giorgia Meloni R Silvio Berlusconi C and Matteo Salvini L | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 Russias Black Sea Fleet Sevastopol Crimea August 20 2022 | MR Online

    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.

  • | Gazproms Nord Stream gas pipeline Lubmin Germany | MR Online

    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. 

  • | Normandy Format Summit Held in Paris | Photo picture alliance | MR Online

    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.

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