Bhadrakumar on Saudi-Iran rapprochement

 In Indian Punchline “ The agreement announced on Friday in Beijing regarding the normalisation of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran and the reopening of their embassies is a historic event. It goes way beyond an issue of Saudi-Iranian relations. China’s mediation signifies that we are witnessing a profound shift of the tectonic plates in the geopolitics of the 21st century. ”

Alistair Crooke on western intelligence institutions

 HOW COULD WESTERN INTELLIGENCE HAVE GOT IT WRONG, AGAIN? THEY DIDN’T. THEY HAD OTHER PURPOSES

An update from Douglas Mcgregor

 

Another emerging confrontation in Sahel

 Coups, Chaos, and the Crumbling of the Francafique: the Widening War between East and West in Africa’s Sahel

Another Scott Ritter interview on the overall picture

 

A reality check for Modi Govt’s G20 ambitions

 A reality check for Modi Govt’s G20 ambitions

“A plausible explanation could be that after being threatened with a regime change orchestrated by the western intelligence — starting with the BBC documentary, followed by the Hindenburg report, and culminating in George Soros’s prognosis of a “democratic revival” in India — the ruling elite panicked.”

And from ‘the Duran’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfrTlBvstOw

Here is one from Big Serge, one of the best articles I have seen so far

 Russo-Ukrainian War: Schrodinger’s Offensive

Bhadrakumar on Adani

 Reports of Adani’s eclipse are greatly exaggerated

Changing face of war from Simplicius

 Changing face of war

Ukraine update

 

Indian PM offers hints to Russia in critical speech

Indian PM offers hints to Russia in critical speech ;

“Does the Modi quote reinforce the argument that New Delhi is speaking with a forked tongue?

Indian foreign policy mandarins disagree with that notion. They maintain that this is a sign of the changing times, where an “India First” foreign policy is the need of the hour. New Delhi decides for itself, and its independent foreign policy cannot be subject to any kind of coercions.

India, which is home to one-fifth of the world’s population, deserves the right to form and hold its own position and to weigh its own interests in a multipolar world.”

On the Chinese initiatives

 

And from Moon of Alabama

One year update on Ukraine war from Alexander Mercouris

 

Update by Bhadrakumar

 Russia’s Ukraine offensive in suspended animation

Another Ukraine update, this time from Simplicius

 Simplicious and Big Serge do not report daily but seem to come up with well reasoned and fact based reports.SitRep 2/23: Putin, Prigozhin, PMC's and PMR's Prigozhin saga seems to be temporarily resolved.

Reversing Brexit

 

Possible Ukraine offensive

 

Overall view of the military situation in Ukraine

 COMPLEX, COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS FROM SIMPLICIUS76

Four in all. If some of the links do not work, copy the link and pate in the browser. Some are discussed in the comments section of https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/02/ukraine-open-thread-2023-41.html#comments

Emmanuel Todd interviews about Ukraine

 A short one and a longer one 

Wagner chief envisages a two year conflict

 From various sources including Gilbert Doctorow