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India is pragmatic. Much as China. Nothing novel here. It's pragmatism. More than often, Russia and China do not look at the matters commonly. Russia has been wary of China's potential influence in Central Asia, hence invited India into the SCO. In the Arctic, invited Japan and SK into the...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/us/politics/ukraine-crimea-military.html The Biden administration is considering the argument that Kyiv needs the power to strike at the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.

We are talking about general elite tendency in dictatorships like Russia. We are talking about national elites whose attitudes do matter and indicative of their outlook on future. If they are unhappy and tend to have a bleak outlook on future, hence seek guarantees in better places, that tells...

That is a lame argument. Russian elites and oligarchs invest and live in the West. If not themselves, their children live there, acquire citizenship. Even those who fail in staying in the West, they live Western life in their country. For many, Russia is simply a place they are unable to run...

I think the trust issue is universal. Even the South - South cooperation is nothing but a fantasy. Ideologies and economies may find themselves to be compatible and congruent at one geopolitical context. But, once the context is changed, relationship needs to be reformulated. During the COVID...

She presumably practiced some Chinese. Mark Zuckerberg did, too. But their choice has nothing similar to that of Russian elite or oligarchs, who are immersed in Western culture, live in the West and have their (or their children) future established in the West. Russian elite and oligarchs...

Even Sergei Lavrov does not believe in what Sergei Lavrov claims. America is obviously powerful enough for Sergei Lavrov to send Sergei Lavrov's daughter to study there. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/us/kremlin-kids-in-the-west-invs/index.html me Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who called...

The mercenary group seem to be seeking recruits in other countries, as well: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/serbia-asks-russia-end-recruitment-its-people-ukraine-war-2023-01-17/ Now we have Serbian nationalists fighting for Putin's righteous war in Ukraine.

Cylinders? North Korean and Iranian armament and equipment? Male prisoners? Female prisoners? Is there any cylinder left other than sending human waves and bombing civilians? Maybe one more left: Iranian morality police and basij -- Once they are done with killing young girls on the home...

Chechnyans definitely feel for the plight of Ukrainians. After all, Putin employs exactly the same strategy in Ukraine. Only difference is, unlike Chechnyans, Ukrainians are not alone. Like Saudis in Yemen? Turkey in Libya? Iraq in Iran? Russians in Afghanistan? Russians in Chechnya...

No wonder Putin needs another round of mobilization. He used up lots of minorities, Muslims, prisoners and mentally disturbed. Who's to to be used in the next round? So, the so called denazifying army uses Nazi tactics. No surprise there. Because if Putin really wanted to destroy Nazis, he...

That's a tradition. If one reads the details below, one sees Russian nature of fighting wars has not changed a bit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samashki_massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tukhchar_massacre...

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/TSMC-weighs-second-chip-plant-in-Japan-expansion-in-Europe

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/01/15/it-took-just-two-weeks-for-one-of-the-ukrainian-armys--newest-brigades-to-get-american-made-m-2-fighting-vehicles/?sh=4926e5f8510c

https://asiatimes.com/2023/01/global-times-mostly-wrong-on-japans-chip-industry/ Global Times mostly wrong on Japan’s chip industry Communist Party-run outlet misconstrues the history and underestimates the strength of Japan’s semiconductor industry By SCOTT FOSTER JANUARY 17, 2023...

You are losing propaganda war.

https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-missile-that-hit-dnipro-apartment-block-an-aircraft-carrier-killer-2023-1?amp At least 23 people were killed in a Russian missile strike on an apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. The latest massive Russian wave of attacks on Saturday...

Strongman regimes' insignia: hypocrisy and a very thick skin. Somehow the party just several weeks ago remembered the notion of reciprocity. I would at least remain silent, if I were the strongman, so that the rest of the world would forget earlier than later. This is power poisoning, if...

It also reminds of what 1. Qatar backed foreign forces did in Aleppo, 2. Russia-backed Serbian forces in Srebrenica, (Russian backing, mind you) 3. Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen, 4. Hamas-led rockets in the West Bank, 5. Russian led strikes in Grozny (Russian-led, mind you) 6. Soviet...

Putin did the same in the Caucasus. Levelled the entire city blocks with civilians in it. Terrorized population. Sadly, Caucasus lacked enough population to resist - because Russia periodically ethnic cleanse them. Russia wants a similar victory in Ukraine, but that's highly unlikely. Quote...