Silent Lonesome Man

India and Vietnam are being seen as the potential bulwarks against Chinese aggression, largely because of their common hatred against China. However, their political development shows that disliking against China doesn't mean they will join the same fight against Russia, a country that shares similar political structure and authoritarian tendency like China. If anything that teaches us about such an absurd case, then in some parts of the world, Russia is still being viewed as a saviour rather than an imperialist state, which is painfully true to India and Vietnam's case. This has been observed by the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite the Russian invasion stalled and faltered due to successful Ukrainian resistance, despite Russian troops' excessive display of barbarism against Ukrainian civilians, still a large portion of Vietnamese and Indians cheer the Russian invaders who are massacring civilians and supporting, loving a dictator that is threatening a nuclear wa...

India is one of the very few nations in the democratic camp in the planet to have not denounced Russian invasion of Ukraine. Moreover, in a surprise visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed him, albeit in a cold shoulder. But that still explains why India still views Russia too important. Despite the economic ties between two nations are minimal even compared to the size of India's trade with Japan and South Korea, Russia is the base of many Indian military hardware. Unexpectedly, Indians also have a lot of reason to love Russia - during the Cold War, while India was officially neutral, the country had leaned to Moscow following the 1971 war with Pakistan, an Indian victory. The United States was ill-remembered because of Washington's support for Islamabad, despite American popular rally toward the cause of Bangladesh. The Russian invasion of Ukraine had only emphasised the desperate. Putin and Lavrov have been running o...

When a TV channel revealed the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko's military and tactical plan to conquer Moldova , by blunder, the news shocked international community and showed the true extent of Putin's grand ambition. The Russian dictator's megalomania about imperialist conquest for the restoration of his Russian Empire, and the fact that he was targeting Moldova, a former Soviet state, could be seen as a reason why the Eastern European country immediately requested joining the European Union. This advantage Putin aimed to catch on while invading Ukraine, was lost. But that channel is not a normal channel. It's the country where it is stationed that matters the most for us. That channel is WION, an Indian right-wing TV channel recently accumulated a lot of watchers. So, how that channel comes to life, and, if anything, how would this channel play any major role in disrupting or, potentially, ruining the relationship between Russia and India? Establishment WIO...

When Putin waged a brutal, inhuman invasion of Ukraine on 23 February 2022, it has already reached the boiling temper, as the invasion proved to be far more difficult than expected. Putin's Russian army has suffered consistent tactical and strategical failures to maintain, while troops suffer from low morale due to being deceived and have to fight a war they did not know they would take part. In megalomania and isolation, Putin, the all-time dictator and new Tsar of autocratic Russia, had called for a massive redeployment of nuclear deterrent force on high alert , calling the West " empire of lies " and warned to use nuclear weapons as if it could mean the complete annihilation of a nation - something Putin is not afraid to do given his notorious ruthlessness in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria. For a dictator that is so embedded with projecting neo-imperialist and fascist-like empire, as well as his eagerness to suffer hardship for long-term imperialist gains, Putin's act...

On 14 July 2021, I woke up only to receive a blowing new that even for some European football fans, might also perceive as a surprise. Of course, not that case of Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi, not even close. But the player here has triggered a lot of tense debate about whenever did he really think it was right or only just to impress for more money. Yes, we're talking about Joni Kauko. The Finnish midfielder, who was notorious for being the back of the Finnish squad that successfully took part in the country's first-ever UEFA European Championship, played in 2021, has stunned pundits by announcing that he would leave Europe for a rickshaw trip to India, by signing with Indian giant Mohun Bagan. At the age of 31, he is no longer young, but still on that age, he could also choose to represent clubs in Serbian, Croatian, Greek, Scottish or Turkish leagues, where football infrastructures are far more developed and wealthier to maintain fitness. Maybe he could have chosen Sout...

The protests in Myanmar have been the biggest since the 1988 Uprising in Myanmar, and the number of fatalities is rising days by days, nights by nights - triggered by the coup on 1 February 2021. This has triggered widespread international condemnation, but attempts to pass out a solution over the coup d'etat, was not successful, because of counter-attempts to block the condemnation by China and Russia - both Beijing and Moscow regard it as "internal affairs" of Myanmar. Later, it was reported that not just China and Russia; there are two other nations on the list of trying to prevent condemnation on the Myanmar junta. India and Vietnam are the two nations being on the list, and this has led to criticism that New Delhi and Hanoi are "playing on the lives" of innocent Burmese people being gunned down by Tatmadaw soldiers. As the world concentrates its eyes on Russia and China, so does India and Vietnam. However, the decision by both the governments of India and V...