Turkiye president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (left) and leader of main opposition party Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.

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Türkiye & the Erdogan-Kilicdaroglu Sunday showdown

By Arindam Mukherjee May 13, 2023 Erdogan turkey polls Kilicdaroglu turkey polls turkey presidential election

Erdogan is one of the foremost representatives of a multipolar world, along with Xi and Putin.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (file photo)

Opinion

India must step up its game to come out of Western shadows

By Arindam Mukherjee May 8, 2023 Indian manufacturing sector nsa ajit doval NSA Jake Sullivan sco meeting in goa

The ones on the side of the West are against India prioritizing transactional behaviour over blind allegiance to the West.

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Sudan’s troubles have just started

By Arindam Mukherjee April 29, 2023 russia and sudan sudan & america sudan conflict Sudan war sudan war reason who is behind sudan war

Even if the present civil war has caught the West by surprise, whoever emerges victorious is likely to face a West-orchestrated destabilization in the near future.

Five army jawans were killed in an ambush in Poonch on April 20.

Opinion

Poonch attack a lesson for Indians sympathising with Pakistan

By Arindam Mukherjee April 23, 2023 attack on armyh truck in kashmir g20 in kashmir poonch army attack Ukraine war who is behind poonch attack

Since India has the advantage now of choosing the place, time, or the mode, the options are many. Breakaway provinces (KPK, the Durand ‘zone’, Baluchistan, G-B), civil unrest, Punjabi racism, economic turmoil – it is almost an open season with the right kind of intent and strategy.

Opinion

The Afghan legacy in Ukraine and Taiwan

By Arindam Mukherjee April 17, 2023 afghan Taiwan Ukraine Zbigniew Brzezinski

Proxy wars have existed for a long time, but the Afghan conflict marked the most notable return of proxy warfare in contemporary times.

Zbigniew Brzezinski was opposed to the disastrous intervention in Iraq.

Opinion

Rediscovering legacy of US policy thinker Zbigniew Brzezinski

By Arindam Mukherjee April 9, 2023 Russia US relation Sino-US relations US-China relationship Zbigniew Brzezinski Zbigniew Brzezinski US NSA Zbigniew Brzezinski usa

One of the common temptations that I submit to every year as my birthday approaches is to Google up the famous Aries of our times.…

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi delivered a speech at the University of Cambridge last month.

Opinion

Why is West suddenly interested in Rahul Gandhi case?

By Arindam Mukherjee April 5, 2023 Rahul gandhi case rahul gandhi convicted rahul gandhi ls disqualification Rahul Gandhi west support US west support to rahul gandhi

What is the West’s interest in the Rahul Gandhi defamation case and the court verdict?

Post 1990, NATO morphed into a system that survived on a negative feedback loop

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NATO paradox and other American miscalculations

By Arindam Mukherjee March 29, 2023 Cold War gorbachev NATO putin Russia US Yeltsin

As the conflict in Ukraine begins to look like a key marker paging the end of unipolarity, one cannot help but look back at two of the four big miscalculations of the USA

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China is preparing for a bipolar world order

By Arindam Mukherjee March 19, 2023 bipolar world China iran saudi arabia

If in the near future, China wants to (and China most definitely would) pick and choose those American blindsides to leverage its image as a global negotiator, then this Iran-Saudi deal would look like the tip of a fairly large iceberg.