Indian Muslims: A Rich Hunting Ground for Middle Eastern Rivals

Indian Muslims: A Rich Hunting Ground for Middle Eastern Rivals

When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently declared that Turkey was “the only country that can lead the Muslim world,” he probably wasn’t only thinking of Middle Eastern and other Islamic states such as Pakistan and Bangladesh. Increasingly, there is evidence that Indian Muslims, the Islamic world’s fourth largest community after Indonesia and the South Asian…

Trump’s Anecdote About Modi’s Afghan Library Revealed Something Disturbing

Trump’s Anecdote About Modi’s Afghan Library Revealed Something Disturbing

It’s not just that the US President doesn’t appreciate the importance of soft power, but that the Indian government fundamentally misread the American leader to the point of thinking that he actually does and that no one in their intelligence community realized what a serious error of judgement this was.  Trump’s a no-nonsense businessman, for…

India’s BJP Is a Neoliberal Party Masquerading as a Protectionist One

India’s BJP Is a Neoliberal Party Masquerading as a Protectionist One

The BJP stunningly lost five regional elections earlier this month in a development that proves that people are no longer as distracted by the neoliberal party’s identity politics as they once were and are instead very well aware that they’ve been duped over the past half-decade by a movement that espouses populist protectionist rhetoric but…

2019 Forecast for Afro-Eurasia

2019 Forecast for Afro-Eurasia

The fast-moving and full-spectrum paradigm changes catalyzed by the emerging Multipolar World Order accelerated in 2018 and are poised to continue dramatically reshaping Afro-Eurasian geopolitics across the next year. The Significance Of End-Of-The-Year Strategic Forecasting 2018 was the year when the New Cold War – which had been percolating since the Soviet dissolution in 1991…

Bangladesh Is Using Pakistan as a Bogeyman to Delegitimize Popular Protests

Bangladesh Is Using Pakistan as a Bogeyman to Delegitimize Popular Protests

Bangladesh’s claim to have busted a secret ISI operation to fund the BNP opposition party should be taken with a grain of salt because the country’s pro-Indian ruling party has an interest in using Pakistan as a bogeyman to delegitimize popular protests and distract from the organic Hybrid War tensions that the state itself is…