The cold war roots of a new Korean war
Jacob G. Hornberger | While President Trump’s impulsiveness and erratic behavior is clearly bringing America closer to war with North Korea, the real root of...
Where Doklam traverses regional politics
M K Bhadrakumar | The regional setting in which the India-China standoff at Doklam is playing out can only be ignored at our risk. Most...
Israel and the gimmickry of geopolitics
Joseph Davis | There are signs that the war in Syria may be winding down. The Trump administration has “shifted its policies in Syria away...
Russia-China-India triangle – then and now
M K Bhadrakumar | The South China Morning Post jogged our memory by retrieving from the archives of the Wilson Centre in Washington the transcript...
Trump signs Russia sanctions bill, but spits at it
M K Bhadrakumar | There is a long history of Russia being kicked around as a political football in the United States. The circumstances leading...
Blame the anti-Russia brouhaha on the CIA and Pentagon
Jacob G. Hornberger | Have you noticed that according to the Pentagon, the CIA, and the U.S. mainstream press (whose newspapers oftentimes appear to be...
Come in, Kim. Join the club
M K Bhadrakumar | According to US officials, North Korea’s ICBMs are capable of hitting any part of the United States. These North Koreans are an...
Next economic crash is around the corner
Jacob G. Hornberger | American statists are convinced that the modern-day United States is immune from an economic catastrophe arising from its welfare-state, regulated-economy way...
Putin’s Russia on top yet again
M K Bhadrakumar | Russia and the United States could be hurtling toward a showdown following Moscow’s decision on Friday to retaliate, finally, against President Barack...
Doklam is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma
M K Bhadrakumar | My good friend from old times, Saeed Naqvi has written a blog on India’s Doklam standoff with China where he discloses,...
India’s China war circa 2017?
Ikram Sehgal | A month or so ago, Indian troops trespassed and forcibly halted China extending a border road through Donglang plateau (called Doklam by...
US moves against Iran raise spectre of wider regional conflict
James M. Dorsey | US President Donald J. Trump. in a step that could embolden Saudi Arabia to move ahead with plans to destabilize Iran,...