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1 day 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.
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1 week ago | 
indianpunchline.com | M. K. Bhadrakumar |M.K. Bhadrakumar
President Donald Trump: Bracing for a longer Ukraine war One of the mysteries of the Ukraine endgame is that President Donald Trump did not issue an executive order on January 20 withdrawing all support for Ukraine. That would have been the easiest way to end the war.
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2 weeks ago | 
indianpunchline.com | M. K. Bhadrakumar |M.K. Bhadrakumar
Playing chess on phone: US President Donald Trump (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin in deep conversation (File photo)The mystique of engaging with the US President Donald Trump will remain a hot topic. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s sensational visit is the latest instance underscoring that it can be dangerous to get too close to the sun’s orbit. It burns.
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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.
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1 month 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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2 months 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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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.
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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.
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2 months 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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2 months 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.
