International Affaires

Pentagon now view North Korea as the biggest threat to the security of United States, having conducted about 14 missile tests in this year alone, and openly threatening the United States of nuclear attack. North Korea’s threat is in response to the US’s threat of military action against North Korea’s missile and nuclear tests. The US administrations from Obama to Trump, have committed a series of mistakes on containing North Korea. A series of sanctions for the past one decade has led North Korea to face severe economic crisis, and forced it to the wedge of “feeling nothing more to loss”, but to fight back by any means. North Korea has the backing of China, and Russia. As China is reluctant to abandon its age-old ally, just to please the United States for some economic gains. Another bricking point is that, China doesn’t like US forces on its doorsteps, as it has already complained about the deployment of THAAD missile defense system in South Korea. South China Sea...

Dozens of armed groups are fighting in Syria, for and against the Syrian government as well as ISIS and Al Qaeda. Relatively peaceful middle , other than the Israeli Palestinian conflicts become hot spot of bloodshed and mayhem. Anyone who observed the international crisis in the past few decades will realize that all of this will be the fall out of Iraqi Invasion of United States and its allies. Though various terrorist organizations existed long before, their reach and intensity was of a limited amount. The disbanded Iraqi soldiers and officers, who had years of experience in War and battlefield, have no other choices for their livelihood, other than fighting for some Islamist groups including ISIS and al Qaeda, which exploited their experiences. Now, United States with its allies are arming and training anti-Assad groups in Syria, the same way what they did a few decades back, arming and training the Afghans against then Soviet Union. After the collapse o...

Like ancient Rome, British Empire once stretched from the Americas to Australia, after the World Wars, and changing socio economic conditions forced Britain to abandon most of its colonies. A nation which started the industrial revolution, and dominated the entire world in early seventeenth century is facing a bleak twenty first century, Britain is in a desperate position, to depend on another nation even for its own defense from a power like, Russia, China or the United States. Devastated, and heartbroken following a series of setback in recent times, starting from Brexit, series of terror attacks, radicalization of British Muslims, flooding of refugees from the middle east and Africa, as well as widening gap between Britain and its former colonies in Asia ,Africa, America and Australia. Every empire in history had a time of rise and fall, and for Britain, it is the time extinction? Britain’s intention to dominate the European Union resulted in a backlash ...

              Turkey’s Overture to Russia The shoot down of Russian air force jet over Turkish jets froze the Turkish Russian relations, The Russians   imposed sanctions on Turkey, the anti-Turkish sentiments rose over a record level. The Russians demanded apology from Turkey, which Ankara defiantly refused. The Russians were firm on their decision for further normalization of any relations with Turkey. Suddenly, now Turkish President publicly apologized to Russia which surprised the beurocrates both in Russia, as well as among Turkish Western allies. What forced Turkey to make such decision? Since Erdogan’s Islamist party took over the leadership of Turkey, there were allegations of press freedom, and departure of Turkey from Ataturk’s secular principles. In Syrian crisis, Turkey’s intention to create a no-fly zone, and its ambitious plans to crush Kurdish rebels, were in turmoil following the intervention of United States and la...

After four years, since the start of the Crisis in Syria, Russia enters into Syria, to protect its long term Middle Eastern ally, President Azad. Not only the Americans, but their European allies such as Britain, France and Germany perplexed at the swiftness of which the Russians started the bombing campaign against ISIS and anti-Assad rebel groups. For Putin’s Russia, it is a show of strength, after decades of hands-off policy not to fight in foreign country, following the collapse of Soviet Union. According various European media sources, Putin’s military intervention in Syria is to get concession as well as relief from sanctions from the West, following its annexation of Crimea and its involvement in supporting the rebels in Eastern Ukraine. But in the Syrian crisis, the Russians are acting as per international law.  They are acting by the invitation of the legitimate leader of Syria, whom the United States and their allies accused of killing his own people, and ...

The existing situation in the Middle East posed a grave future for the future. The situation is spiraling out of control. The growing threat of ISIS , mixed with the Saudi and its allied bombing campaign on Houthi target in Yemen, the Iranian nuclear deal with the west , altogether complicated the situation in the Middle East.  Till two year back, Iraq was the crisis center in the Middle East, but now it spreads to Yemen, Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia now is reaching the door steps of Lebanon. Felt by threat around their door steps, the Saudis, the desperately looking for shopping for nuclear weapons. Even If the ISIS is defeated, the ground situation in the region will not change as it seems, even there are chances for regime changes may occur in the Middle East in the near future. The rise of ISIS has deeply divided the population in the region on sectarian basis. The recent bombing incidents in the Saudi cities of Qatif and Dammam are only beginnings.  The...

When there was communism in the Eastern block of nations during the cold War era, there was real threat of military conflicts, due to domination of political ideology such as capitalism and communism. Since the collapse of Soviet Union, and the communist influence in Russia, there existed a vacuum to be filled for the last two decades. Now the cold war suspicion, and the instinct to dominate the world affairs, is once again sprouting, this time not with a valiant Soviet Union and its allies, but resurgent Russia under Vladimir Putin. The world knows how the Russians suffered the crisis that arose immediately after the collapse of Soviet Union, under the presidency of Boris Yelstin. During Soviet era, a mistrust among the two blocks existed on mainly ideological reason, which started immediately after World War II, and the partition of Germany. The arms build ups and threat of war among the communist East led by Russia and Western alliance led by the United States ,...