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2 weeks ago | 
indianpunchline.com | M. K. Bhadrakumar |M.K. Bhadrakumar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) chaired a meeting with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh (L), National Security Advisor Ajit Doval (R) and the military top brass, New Delhi, April 29, 2025 In a timely reminder, even as Indians are demanding robust retaliation for the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in Kashmir, the US president Donald Trump pulled aside Prime Minister Narendra Modi to signal that conversations with India on a trade pact were “coming along great” and announced that the two countries...
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1 month ago | 
indianpunchline.com | M. K. Bhadrakumar |M.K. Bhadrakumar
Russian president’s Special Representative on investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev had two days of consultations with US administration officials, Washington, DC, April 3, 2025 The visit by the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and special representative of the Russian president for investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev to Washington on April 2-3, the first such visit by a senior Kremlin official since 2022, appears to have been a modest achievement whose...
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month ago | 
indianpunchline.com | M. K. Bhadrakumar |M.K. Bhadrakumar
Ukraine’s president Vladimir Zelensky (L) with European leaders and NATO chief at the European summit, Paris, March 20, 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.
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1 month ago | 
indianpunchline.com | M. K. Bhadrakumar |M.K. Bhadrakumar
The US special envoy for Middle East Steve Witkoff has disclosed that Tehran has made back channel contacts following a recent letter from President Trump (L) addressed to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) suggesting talks. The air is thick with the prognosis that a military confrontation between the US and Iran is now just a matter of time. Going by the pattern of such scare mongering in the past decades, Israeli media management skills are self-evident. There is a sense of de javu.
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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.
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2 months ago | 
indianpunchline.com | M. K. Bhadrakumar |M.K. Bhadrakumar
The United States President Donald Trump (R) received the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Mark Rutte, White House, Washington, March 13, 2025 The US President Donald Trump by far outstrips any of his predecessors in post-cold war era in the transparency of his foreign policy agenda and in his attempt to connect the public opinion with his America First ideology.
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2 months ago | 
alethonews.com | M. K. Bhadrakumar |Indian Punchline |Nebojsa Malic
Trump invites Putin to a roller coaster ride By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | March 13, 2025 The political optics of the joint statement issued after the US-Ukrainian talks at Jeddah on March 11 lasting nine hours is hard to tell since President Donald Trump prides himself on his ability to strike deals.
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2 months ago | 
indianpunchline.com | M. K. Bhadrakumar |M.K. Bhadrakumar
US President Donald Trump (L) disclosed that he has addressed a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) suggesting talks on the nuclear issue, Washington, March 5, 2025 Through the past three year period, Moscow claimed that it faced an existential threat from the US-led proxy war in Ukraine. But in the past six weeks, this threat perception has largely dissipated.
