Has The Wagner Group Mutiny Seriously Weakened Putin?
byThe Wagner group mutiny exposes Russia’s fragile regime; it is a missed opportunity for Ukraine.
The Wagner group mutiny exposes Russia’s fragile regime; it is a missed opportunity for Ukraine.
A deeper defence dependence with the U.S. will constrain India’s options. Such a move will be foolhardy.
Humanity is extremely vulnerable to Antimicrobial resistance. Yet, the World Health Organisation is trying to remove it from the ‘pandemic treaty.’
To many nations in the Global South, calls to uphold the ‘rules-based order’ appear to serve only the foreign policy interests of the great powers, rather than the global public good.
The tragedy in Manipur shows that politicians who want to capture power will exploit the fault lines & aggravate social polarisation.
Despite AI posing an enormous threat to humanity, large multinational corporations who create AI tools remain unregulated.
Taiwan manufactures more than 60 per cent of the world’s semiconductors — and crucially, 90 per cent of the most advanced ones. If China invades Taiwan, it would threaten the global economy with implosion.
If the Modi government is serious about keeping up promises of good governance, it’s important to focus more on governance and less on optics.
Despite the Kremlin’s rhetoric, what this episode suggests is that Russia is less interested in liberating Ukraine from its present leadership than it is in destroying its ability to function as a sovereign nation.
Automation dramatically increases the scale & effectiveness of behavior manipulation and microtargeting techniques used in political campaigns.
The government must act quickly to ensure that such avoidable accidents do not occur in the future.
India can expect that, whenever voicing support for the Kashmir issue enhances his Islamic credentials, Erdogan will not fail to do so.
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A U.S. debt default would be “a cataclysmic event, with an unpredictable but probably dramatic fallout on U.S. and global financial markets.”
Can the people of India place their trust in a regime that has repeatedly broken their trust?