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Roving Periscope: Iran & co may face geopolitical ‘orchestra’ in 2021

November 24, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The no-longer-secret meeting of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman in Saudi Arabia points to the emerging alliance against Iran, whose nuclear-armed neighbor Pakistan and friend North Korea may have to face not just music but a geopolitical orchestra […]

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Roving Periscope: POTUS polls from Watergate to Watermarks!

November 20, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Will Donald Trump have the last laugh? If so, what would be the fate of Joe Biden? If true, it may turn out as an even more sensational disclosure than Richard Nixon’s Watergate Scandal, and sink America’s hard-earned reputation as a model democratic nation worth emulation for the rest of the […]

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Roving Periscope: Melania may dump Trump, get $50 mn!

November 13, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In India, we would call it election ke side-effects! The world, particularly America, waits with bated breath if and when Donald Trump leaves the White House. And if and when his third wife Melania dumps Trump by divorcing him! Officially, Trump has not yet been declared defeated in the November 3 […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump sacks defense chief, keeps others guessing

November 10, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Many had rightly guessed that even if he loses the Presidential election, an unconventional Donald Trump would not easily bow out of power in January 2021. He would first give a spirited fight to his adversary. But few had guessed that he would start doing so by sacking his own Defense […]

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Roving Periscope: Islamic terror anticipated, when France launched Operation Barkhane

November 3, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the toll in Monday’s terror attack in the Austrian capital of Vienna mounted to five, it has emerged that France may have anticipated such attacks after it launched a crackdown on Islamic terrorists in its former African colonies in recent past. A French airstrike on Friday last against terror nurseries […]

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Roving Periscope: In a week, China pushes India, Taiwan into US camp!

October 30, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A week is a long time in politics and a month eternity. Few realize it better than China. In the last seven days flat, a sweating Beijing has felt extreme heat from two hotspots it was trying to encroach upon: India and Taiwan. So much so that all its best-laid-plans may […]

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Roving Periscope: As Muslim nations split, Christian nations unite

October 28, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: At a time when the Muslim nations are splitting into Arab and non-Arab blocs, Christian nations are regrouping against the common threat of what they perceive as an existential crisis due to Islamism in Europe. And they are being currently led by hyper-active French President Emmanuel Macron against the common threat […]

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Roving Periscope: Despite unpopularity, Xitler’s China on war path!

October 16, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Despite the unprecedented global unpopularity of China, its President Xi Jinping has further pushed his country to the precipice: he has just directed his Terracotta Army, officially known as the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), to “be prepared for war”. This week, he asked the PLA troops to “prepare for war”. Troops […]

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Roving Periscope: S. Arabia may ‘excommunicate’ Turkey from Islam!

October 9, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Something unprecedented is likely to happen soon on the Muslim world’s political chessboard: Saudi Arabia may ‘excommunicate’ Turkey from Islam, making it the first country to be declared an apostate in the last 14 centuries. The Saudis have never forgotten how the forerunner of modern Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, had executed […]

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Roving Periscope: Farooq at it again…now ‘invokes’ China in J&K!

September 24, 2020 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Out of his business, that is politics, for well over 16 months, former Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Chief Minister Dr. Farooq Abdullah is fervently trying to stay relevant in the border state he once ruled like an Emperor. And in this quest, he has not refrained from injecting a new and […]