I’m aware of how highly esteemed Mr. Mohan is and therefore felt it important to politely respond to his latest article since I disagree with the spirit of what he’s proposing. Well-known Indian expert C. Raja Mohan recently penned a piece for The Indian Express titled “
Unfortunately the 'esteemed Mr. Mohan' represents a portion of the Indian elite who were enriched and seduced by the US, including with such flattery as Obama's assurance to them that 'India is already a superpower'. All this was part of the Obama administration's 'pivot to Asia', which included sending aircraft carriers off the China seas, and the propping up of India to countervail the growing economic power of China which is what the US really fears, as with the BRI. Despite clear statistics showing Chinese economic superiority (an economy anywhere from 3 to 5 times larger than India's with manufacturing at least 8 times greater) this coterie of Indians likes to believe the Obama flattery..... They have also forgotten that despite border issues with China, India was never really harmed by China, but by Britain, and is now being robbed by US corporations with the usual formula of enriching a small local elite while looting the entire country. This formula worked in the 1990s in Russia under Yeltsin, but was reversed under Putin. But the CCP has never really allowed this US formula to work. Hence the proxy war against Russia and the unending provocations in the Taiwan strait and the hysteria about Xinjiang and Hong Kong. But I believe most Indians still remember 1971 when Soviet submarines drove US and UK navies away from the Bay of Bengal. So this long-standing amity with Russia - though tested by the fake US rapprochement with India - will stand.
Also Pepe Escobar has written an article describing how the territory taken by the Ukrainians did not really have any Russian armed forces; whose retreat was really a strategic one. According to this article the Ukrainians now are exposed to Russian shelling which will make those advances a Pyrrhic victory. https://www.globalresearch.ca/kharkov-game-changer/5793528
Here is an extract:
'Russian forces withdrew from the territory of Kharkov to the left bank of the Oskol river, where they are now entrenched. A Kharkov-Donetsk-Lugansk line seems to be stable. Krasny Liman is threatened, besieged by superior Ukrainian forces, but not lethally.
As it stands, what may be inferred with a reasonable degree of certainty is that a line – Svyatogorsk-Krasny Liman-Yampol-Belogorovka – can hold out long enough with their current garrisons until fresh Russian forces are able to swoop in and force the Ukrainians back beyond the Seversky Donets line.
All hell broke loose – virtually – on why Kharkov happened. The people’s republics and Russia never had enough men to defend a 1,000 km-long frontline. NATO’s entire intel capabilities noticed – and profited from it.
There were no Russian Armed Forces in those settlements: only Rosgvardia, and these are not trained to fight military forces. Kiev attacked with an advantage of around 5 to 1. The allied forces retreated to avoid encirclement. There are no Russian troop losses because there were no Russian troops in the region.
Arguably this may have been a one-off. The NATO-run Kiev forces simply can’t do a replay anywhere in Donbass, or in Kherson, or in Mariupol. These are all protected by strong, regular Russian Army units.
It’s practically a given that if the Ukrainians remain around Kharkov and Izyum they will be pulverized by massive Russian artillery. Military analyst Konstantin Sivkov maintains that, “most combat-ready formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are now being grounded (…) we managed to lure them into the open and are now systematically destroying them.”
The NATO-run Ukrainian forces, crammed with NATO mercenaries, had spent 6 months hoarding equipment and reserving trained assets exactly for this Kharkov moment – while dispatching disposables into a massive meat grinder. It will be very hard to sustain an assembly line of substantial prime assets to pull off something similar again.
The next days will show whether Kharkov and Izyum are connected to a much larger NATO push. '
Unfortunately the 'esteemed Mr. Mohan' represents a portion of the Indian elite who were enriched and seduced by the US, including with such flattery as Obama's assurance to them that 'India is already a superpower'. All this was part of the Obama administration's 'pivot to Asia', which included sending aircraft carriers off the China seas, and the propping up of India to countervail the growing economic power of China which is what the US really fears, as with the BRI. Despite clear statistics showing Chinese economic superiority (an economy anywhere from 3 to 5 times larger than India's with manufacturing at least 8 times greater) this coterie of Indians likes to believe the Obama flattery..... They have also forgotten that despite border issues with China, India was never really harmed by China, but by Britain, and is now being robbed by US corporations with the usual formula of enriching a small local elite while looting the entire country. This formula worked in the 1990s in Russia under Yeltsin, but was reversed under Putin. But the CCP has never really allowed this US formula to work. Hence the proxy war against Russia and the unending provocations in the Taiwan strait and the hysteria about Xinjiang and Hong Kong. But I believe most Indians still remember 1971 when Soviet submarines drove US and UK navies away from the Bay of Bengal. So this long-standing amity with Russia - though tested by the fake US rapprochement with India - will stand.
Also Pepe Escobar has written an article describing how the territory taken by the Ukrainians did not really have any Russian armed forces; whose retreat was really a strategic one. According to this article the Ukrainians now are exposed to Russian shelling which will make those advances a Pyrrhic victory. https://www.globalresearch.ca/kharkov-game-changer/5793528
Here is an extract:
'Russian forces withdrew from the territory of Kharkov to the left bank of the Oskol river, where they are now entrenched. A Kharkov-Donetsk-Lugansk line seems to be stable. Krasny Liman is threatened, besieged by superior Ukrainian forces, but not lethally.
As it stands, what may be inferred with a reasonable degree of certainty is that a line – Svyatogorsk-Krasny Liman-Yampol-Belogorovka – can hold out long enough with their current garrisons until fresh Russian forces are able to swoop in and force the Ukrainians back beyond the Seversky Donets line.
All hell broke loose – virtually – on why Kharkov happened. The people’s republics and Russia never had enough men to defend a 1,000 km-long frontline. NATO’s entire intel capabilities noticed – and profited from it.
There were no Russian Armed Forces in those settlements: only Rosgvardia, and these are not trained to fight military forces. Kiev attacked with an advantage of around 5 to 1. The allied forces retreated to avoid encirclement. There are no Russian troop losses because there were no Russian troops in the region.
Arguably this may have been a one-off. The NATO-run Kiev forces simply can’t do a replay anywhere in Donbass, or in Kherson, or in Mariupol. These are all protected by strong, regular Russian Army units.
It’s practically a given that if the Ukrainians remain around Kharkov and Izyum they will be pulverized by massive Russian artillery. Military analyst Konstantin Sivkov maintains that, “most combat-ready formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are now being grounded (…) we managed to lure them into the open and are now systematically destroying them.”
The NATO-run Ukrainian forces, crammed with NATO mercenaries, had spent 6 months hoarding equipment and reserving trained assets exactly for this Kharkov moment – while dispatching disposables into a massive meat grinder. It will be very hard to sustain an assembly line of substantial prime assets to pull off something similar again.
The next days will show whether Kharkov and Izyum are connected to a much larger NATO push. '
Well said level headed analysis