The secret of Iran’s missile power
While Iran was concentrating on building missile and drone capability to fight an asymmetric war, the US and Israel were concentrating on a less important thing, Iran’s (non-existent) nuclear weapons programme. They were flummoxed when Iranian missiles and drones rained on them.
Pathfinder Foundation hosts Russian Deputy Foreign Minister for high-level dialogue on global geopolitics
The Pathfinder Foundation hosted a high-level discussion featuring His Excellency Andrey Rudenko, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, during his official visit to Sri Lanka. The event brought together diplomats, policymakers, academics, and media representatives for an in-depth exchange on evolving global...
What Zelenskyy sold in the Gulf
By P M Amza/Colombo Telegraph Colombo, March 31 – When Volodymyr Zelenskyy travelled to the Gulf in recent weeks, the visit was widely interpreted as part of Ukraine’s continuing search for financial and political support amid a protracted war. Yet such a reading, while not...
The multiple objectives of Trump’s Greenland gamble
Donald Trump’s objectives in Greenland are to shed America’s long-standing responsibility for the defence of Europe exercised through NATO, politically de-link the US from Europe, become the sole gatekeeper of the Northern Sea Route, being eyed by rivals Russia and China, and secure the sole...
Why Trump has set his sights on Greenland
Trump needs Greenland to stem Russo-Chinese ambitions in the Artic
Greenland, Trump and the fault lines of power
By P M Amza/Colombo Telegraph Colombo, January 15 – Recent public remarks by US President Donald Trump once again brought Greenland into global headlines as a territory of strategic interest to the United States. Although widely treated as rhetorical provocation, these comments echoed Trump’s explicit...
Security considerations in Trump’s demand for Greenland
By P. K. Balachandran/Eurasia Review Colombo, January 13 – US President Donald Trump has said that the US will take over Greenland whether the Greenlanders and the Danes, who have sovereignty over the island, like it or not. Trump’s case is that American control over...
UNSC was a major battle ground for Bangladesh’s liberation
Bangladesh’s war of independence was fought on the ground, in the diplomatic arena across world capitals, and in the UN Security Council, with all three venues seeing intense action.
Trump downgrades India and drops Pakistan in his 2025 NSS
By P. K. Balachandran/Sunday Observer Colombo, December 14- US President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy (NSS) for 2025 signals a decline in the importance of India as compared with the NSS he presented in 2017 during his first term. In 2017, Pakistan was severely castigated...
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