Marshal Bulganin and Premier Khrushchev visited Bangalore, India in the 1950s and planted two tall trees there with great pomp and ceremony, to signify the growing solidarity between India and the USSR.
It is said the Bulganin tree started growing at a slant right away and toppled over a few years later (to be replanted discreetly in a less prominent…

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, EVOLVING NUCLEAR POSTURES, AND DETERIORATING NORMS: IS THE GLOBAL NUCLEAR ORDER ERODING?
January 8-15, 2020, Andalo (Trento), Italy
The global nuclear order is undergoing major transformations. Policy makers around the world are facing complex decisions and – more importantly - costly trade-offs if strategic stability is to…

Russia’s greatness is in the resilience, endurance and inner strength of her people. They have recovered from many devastating tragedies that have befallen the country, from the Mongol scourge to civil war, and from the fascist invasion of the mid-20th century to the tragic decade that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Because of that…

Is the new Containment and its Cold War on our doorstep? Who does it need now and why? To answer that question is to grasp how the previous one ceased.
The end of the Cold War came abruptly, overnight. Many in the West dreamt about it, but nobody really saw it coming. The Warsaw Pact, Red Army in DDR, Berlin Wall, DDR itself, Soviet Union – one…

American Herald Tribune, 10 September 2019
When I think of Russia, I think of three core facts about Russia: eleven time zones’ worth of real estate loaded with valuable minerals and dominant over the emerging Arctic economic zone; 80% Asian like it or not; and resilient. I feel particularly guilty, as an American, about the “Gold War” against…

NASA has lauded Chandrayaan-2, saying India's moon mission has "inspired" the US space agency which is keen to jointly explore the solar system with ISRO, a day after the lunar expedition suffered a snag while attempting a historic landing on the uncharted South Pole of the Moon.
The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) plan to soft-land the…

In preparation for a new lecture and article I have taken the trouble to sort all my reviews and noted books (guest reviews and worth a looks) into a table that is provided below in three forms: sorted by star, by topic, and by author.
This allowed me to identify 25 life-changing transformative books out of the totality of roughly 2,000+ books. Below…

There are many differences between Russia and the US. Some dissimilarities are obvious, while others are more hidden. One such difference is in foreign policy establishments.
Relations between nations have enormous ramifications for millions, if not billions of people. Managing these relations has to be among the most important tasks given to the very…

The President was upset with Fox for its recent poll as reported in New York Magazine, If This Fox News Poll Is Right, Trump Is a Goner.
I asked my top pollster for his views and he kindly shared them with me, at this time asking not to be acknowledged.
This is his wisdom, not mine, but I know from decades of experience that he is vastly superior…

The use of re-education camps to suppress the ethnic Uighur community in Western China is an ongoing crisis that, if continued to be ignored by the international community, could result in the eradication of the Uighurs entirely. While the world community is absorbed in the deadly wars in Syria and Ukraine, an equally terrible tragedy is happening…

Full Briefing with 36  Slides Here:
https://phibetaiota.net/2019/08/robert-steele-if-i-were-president/

14 August 2019Pugwash has been promoting conversations and dialogue on the Kashmir issue for over 15 years. Our focus has always been on efforts to normalize the lives of the Kashmiris who have borne the brunt of the dispute. We have therefore been supportive of promoting communications between people, intra-Kashmiri economic activities, and cultural…