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2 days ago | alethonews.com | M. K. Bhadrakumar |Indian Punchline |Whitney Webb

Profiles in courage: Trump & Eisenhower By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | June 6, 2025President Donald Trump had a difficult week. No, this isn’t about Elon Musk or Harvard University. On Wednesday,  his call to Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t go well. It turned into a ‘conversation’, as Trump wrote on Truth Social, lasting only an hour and 15 minutes, which means, setting aside the time for interpretation, it left no room for substantive discussions.

3 weeks ago | alethonews.com | M. K. Bhadrakumar |Indian Punchline |Whitney Webb

Russia, Ukraine prepare for peace by getting ready for war By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | May 17, 2025 May 16 will stand out as a turning point, for good or bad, in the Ukraine conflict. The main thing is, Russia-Ukraine ‘peace talks’ have resumed in Istanbul and will hopefully carry forward the threads of the draft agreement negotiated in March 2022. But caveats must be added.

2 months ago | alethonews.com | M. K. Bhadrakumar |Indian Punchline |Rick Sterling

Trump-Putin parley is a bit under the weather By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | March 31, 2025 The Kremlin apparently came to the conclusion last week that it was about time to do some plain-speaking that US president Donald Trump’s quest for a 30-day ceasefire in the Ukraine war was a non-starter.

2 months ago | alethonews.com | M. K. Bhadrakumar |Indian Punchline |David Edwards

A Third Way to end the war in Ukraine By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | March 29, 2025 In an unguarded moment, perhaps, ex-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson blurted out recently in an interview that the ultranationalist elements who rule the roost in Kiev are a formidable obstacle to ending the war in Ukraine.

2 months ago | alethonews.com | M. K. Bhadrakumar |Indian Punchline |Ron Unz

Trump’s presidential diplomacy is surging By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | March 14, 2025The US President Donald Trump by far outstrips any of his predecessors in post-cold war diplomatic history in the transparency both in connecting the public opinion with his America First ideology and in his presidential diplomacy. Trump’s media briefings have become a daily occurrence and are an absolute ‘must’ for any serious analyst / observer of world affairs.