International Affaires

Following the assassination of Iran’s Quds forces commander Qassem Soleimani, the US faces challenging foreign policy dilemma in the Middle East. The US is aware of the fact that, any conflict with Iran is costly in terms of material and manpower. As many of the US bases are within the striking range of the Iranian ballistic missiles. Many of the allies in the Middle East including   Saudi Arabia and UAE, don’t like any open conflict with Iran, as it could go spiralling out   of control.   Most of the Pro US countries in the region are surrounded by Iran controlled proxy militias, in Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon.  The powerful aircraft carriers of US navy found its fire power obsolete before the swarm of small speed boats of Iranian navy during the recent incident involving bombing of Saudi bound oil tankers in the gulf. Saudi Arabia lost its trust on the US weapons, following a series of missile attacks by Iranian proxies on its vital oil nstall...

                    By abandoning the Kurds the United States has made a irreparable damage to its foreign policy, that would shape the future US’s relations with its allies and foes together. After a five years fight to defeat the Islamic State, the Kurds sacrificed a huge number of its men and women, now left helpless on the onslaught of the Turkish military and its allied militia-the Syrian national front. The US has shown to the world that it will go after some economic benefit, by abandoning its loyal allies, means there is no loyalty when it comes to business. Never in the recent world history, a responsible power has abandoned its loyal friend, for economic gains. China protected North Korea, Russia stood by the side of Assad, and Maduro even when there were military threat from Europe and the United States. Do the Americans think they will have any reliable military partner anywhere in the world? In...

The United States considers India as its strategic partner in the Asia pacific region, renamed as Indo-Pacific region to counter the growing hegemony of communist China. Keeping in mind the growing influence of resurgent Russia under Vladimir Putin, and Chinese alliance in the region. But does India trust America? Even though both are biggest democracies of the world, there were some political mistrust among them since the cold war.  India being the founding member of Non Aligned Movement leaned toward Soviet Union (Warsaw pact) than the American led NATO block, this may be because of the fact that the US was depending on India’s arch rival Pakistan to train Taliban against the Russians in Afghanistan.   The Soviet Union helped India to develop its nuclear and space capabilities. United States, though one of the biggest donor nations , hesitated to help India technologically. On the other hand, when India tested nuclear devices in 1999, Russia justified Indi...

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...