Proxy wars have existed for a long time, but the Afghan conflict marked the most notable return of proxy warfare in contemporary times.
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The Afghan legacy in Ukraine and Taiwan
Rediscovering legacy of US policy thinker Zbigniew Brzezinski
One of the common temptations that I submit to every year as my birthday approaches is to Google up the famous Aries of our times.…
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Why is West suddenly interested in Rahul Gandhi case?
What is the West’s interest in the Rahul Gandhi defamation case and the court verdict?
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NATO paradox and other American miscalculations
As the conflict in Ukraine begins to look like a key marker paging the end of unipolarity, one cannot help but look back at two of the four big miscalculations of the USA
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China is preparing for a bipolar world order
If in the near future, China wants to (and China most definitely would) pick and choose those American blindsides to leverage its image as a global negotiator, then this Iran-Saudi deal would look like the tip of a fairly large iceberg.
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Can Georgia avert another colour revolution?
Russia has kept its military presence in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia against Georgian wishes.
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Does Transnistria mark limits of Russian power in Ukraine war?
Transnistria has an ammunition dump in a place called Cobasna — arguably one of the largest ammo dumps in Europe.
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One year of Ukraine conflict: Changing geopolitical realities
How the world has changed since Russia decided to act in response to NATO-EU’s series of betrayals on Feb 24 last year.
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Bezmenov, the subversion model, and Adani Enterprises
Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov was an informer of KGB (Soviet Union’s main security agency), whose official cover was as a journalist for the Soviet Novosti Press…
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Introducing Gilgit Baltistan: A 21st century Pakistani ‘colony’ – Part 2
For Pakistan, a country that depends on Indus, India reclaiming G-B would be nothing short of a hydropolitical nightmare (even if one discounts the direct India Afghanistan land connection). So how is Pakistan pre-empting a situation like that?
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