May 1, 2019 – Astute News

May 1, 2019

Don’t Pout Just Because President Putin Didn’t Meet PM Khan at the BRI Forum

Pakistan’s Express Tribune quoted some unnamed diplomatic sources in a recent report claiming that it was the “biggest setback” and a “diplomatic failure” that President Putin didn’t meet with PM Khan at last week’s BRI Forum, but those emotional reactions don’t take into account the full context of Russian-Pakistani relations otherwise this non-event wouldn’t be perceived by them as a...

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May 1, 2019

Behold the Breathtaking Weakness of the Empire!

The Empire has suffered painful defeats in Afghanistan and Iraq, but one has to admit that these are “tough” countries to crack. The Empire also appears to have lost control of Libya, but that is another complex country which is very hard to control. We also saw all the pathetic huffing and puffing with the DPRK. But, let’s be honest,...

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May 1, 2019

Guaido Rolls the Dice, a Stars & Stripes Dice, in Venezuela

Juan Guaido and his supporters in Venezuela, among them elements of the Venezuelan military, have rolled the dice – a Stars and Stripes dice – in a desperate bid to overturn not Nicolas Maduro but democracy in Caracas. As we have come to expect, the usual suspects in the form of the clutch of US European satellites, long ago made...

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May 1, 2019

Tectonic Shift in North Africa Puts Washington in Passenger’s Seat

A massive shift in the geo-political status quo in North Africa has placed the United States in the passenger’s, not the pilot’s, seat. No longer does Washington, not even as a co-pilot with the French, influence the actions of key actors in North African affairs. The shift in the North African chessboard is the result of three recent major events....

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May 1, 2019

Sri Lanka – Candidate for a New NATO Base?

Sri Lanka, Easter Sunday, 21 April 2019: More than half a dozen bomb blasts shook the country killing from 250 to more than 350 people. Depending on who counts, the death toll varies. The devastation took place in in several catholic churches and luxury hotels. Other explosions, including from – what they say – are suicide bombers, have since killed...

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May 1, 2019

Blame Palestinians for Gaza – Israel Is the Perpetual Victim

If you have read a recent New York Times op-ed entitled “Care about Gaza? Blame Hamas” written by none other than the White House “special representative for international negotiations” Jason Greenblatt you would understand that the misery being experienced by Palestinians in Gaza is all their own fault. Greenblatt, who is Jewish of the Orthodox persuasion, just happens to be...

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May 1, 2019

Rethink India’s Belt and Road Options

India’s absence from the recently concluded second summit meeting of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on April 25-27 was more a topic of animated discussion in our country — that we “rejected” the Chinese invite, decided to “boycott” the event and administered a “snub” to China and so on. This was due to our media and think tankers’...

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May 1, 2019

Russia’s “Military Diplomacy” Might Succeed in Getting Turkey to Switch Sides

Turkish-American ties have been seriously strained over the past few years since the US started arming Syrian-based Kurdish fighters that Ankara considers to be terrorists and the Mideast country’s officials strongly implied that Washington had a hand in the failed summer 2016 coup attempt against President Erdogan. It’s little wonder then that Turkey began to reorient itself eastward towards Russia...

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Daily Archive: May 1, 2019

Don’t Pout Just Because President Putin Didn’t Meet PM Khan at the BRI Forum

Behold the Breathtaking Weakness of the Empire!

Guaido Rolls the Dice, a Stars & Stripes Dice, in Venezuela

Tectonic Shift in North Africa Puts Washington in Passenger’s Seat

Sri Lanka – Candidate for a New NATO Base?

Blame Palestinians for Gaza – Israel Is the Perpetual Victim

Rethink India’s Belt and Road Options

Russia’s “Military Diplomacy” Might Succeed in Getting Turkey to Switch Sides