Off-centre | The Biden blunder: Depicting Putin as a madman won’t help West’s cause
Makarandrparanjape • 3 years agoBy 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
Fp Explainers • 3 years agoThe 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
• 3 years agoEstonia, 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
Fp Staff • 3 years agoThe 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
Maj Gen Harsha Kakar • 3 years agoWith 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
• 3 years agoIf 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
• 4 years agoAs 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
• 4 years agoLavrov'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
Sreemoy Talukdar • 5 years agoChina 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
Suharsh Sinha • 5 years agoWhile the other pop stars of the 90s were far less political, Michael Jackson's songs showed a clear political arc.