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Off-centre | The Biden blunder: Depicting Putin as a madman won’t help West’s cause

By adopting a belligerent and uncompromising rhetoric, in addition to ratcheting up its propaganda war, the US is making its original mishandling of Russia even worse

Cuban Crisis Redux: Tomahawks at Russia's doorstep, or a knife to the throat as Putin calls it

The deployment of US-made missile systems in eastern Europe eerily mirrors the Cuban missile crisis of 1962

Ukraine crisis: Russian invasion leaves Baltics wondering if they are Moscow’s next target

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were seized and annexed by Stalin during World War II before gaining independence again with the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991

Convinced, Russian forces will attack Ukraine in coming week, says Joe Biden

The US President said they are doing everything in their power to remove any reason that Russia may give to justify invading Ukraine and prevent them from moving in

How Ukraine crisis has ensured China is no longer the primary nation on global radar

With global emphasis on Ukraine, China would enhance its threats on Taiwan. Indian forces, too, would need to be on watch to curb any Chinese misadventures along its northern borders

Kazakhstan unrest: How Vladimir Putin again seizes on unrest in an attempt to expand Russian influence

If the turmoil in Kazakhstan has exposed the vulnerability of the strongman leaders whom the Kremlin has trusted to keep order, it has also presented Russia with a chance to reassert its influence

From ex-KGB spy to president, Vladimir Putin's one-man mission to bring power back to Russia

As the 68-year-old delivers his latest state of the nation address on Wednesday, Putin is leading a Russia that is closer to the Soviet Union than at any time since its collapse

Russian FM Sergey Lavrov to visit China as Beijing, Moscow warm up to counter US' tough policy push

Lavrov's visit will take place in the immediate backdrop of the first dialogue between Beijing and Washington after US President Joe Biden came to power and amidst high decibel rhetoric between both the countries

Rise of a paranoid superpower: Xi Jinping’s China is making costly strategic blunders in pursuit of greatness

China has alienated regional players and given rise to a renewed push for Asian multilateralism underwritten by the US.

The death of liberal order: On Michael Jackson's 'Black or White' and our changing political, cultural landscape

While the other pop stars of the 90s were far less political, Michael Jackson's songs showed a clear political arc.