The Great Game Takes Pivot in 2024 with Conflicts at Centre Sage
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Military Conflicts Leave Bloody Trails in 2024
By Manish Anand
New Delhi, December 31: A Chinese video has given a year-end food for thought by advocating that China must march military to capture Russian provinces in the event there is a second disintegration of Russia.
The video puts voice over to military drills to argue that the US could set up satellite defence bases in the small Russian provinces after the second disintegration. Russian President Vladimir Putin may find the video wired after he and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping announced a partnership of century this year.
With days to go for the US President-elect Donald Trump to assume office, Washington approved $5.9 billion in military aide for Ukraine. Trump on campaign trails had sounded out Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian President, that the American money may get hard to access when he takes over the charge of the US. Yet, Trump is known for too many U-turns.
China decisive enabler of Russia’s war against Ukraine: NATO
The western strategic affairs commentators have almost concluded that Russia is no more a guarantor to stability of Moscow-supported regimes. Within a week, Türkiye-backed rebels ran over almost whole of Syria while Russian fighter jets showed semblance of defence by bombing a few targets. Russia gave consolation to felled Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad with an asylum on humanitarian grounds.
The Middle East observers have also recalled Trump 1.0 Senate briefing where t was admitted that there had been collaborations with a section of the Syrian rebels, which included al-Qaeda and even the ISIS. Türkiye is a Nato member nation.
With the fall of Damascus, Israel quickly occupied the buffer zone around the Golan heights. Israel has also stated its decision to overstay in areas occupied in Lebanon after dismantling the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Iran’s vows to avenge deaths of Ebrahim Raisi, the slain Hezbollah head Hasan Nasrallah, and many others are now dismissed as hollow rhetoric. Iran possibly is now well aware that Russia is no more capable to assist the allies.
“There is a sense of fatigue in the ranks of the Russian military forces. The same also holds true for the Ukrainian forces,” said Lt. Gen. (Retd) KJ Singh. He also cautioned against an air of enthusiasm over China overtures to India with border talks, saying that the Uttarakhand in the central sector could be the next target of Beijing.
The year 2024 is ending with the Taliban overrunning the Pakistani military posts in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa region. Military experts are beginning to take a closer look at the drone-backed fire power of Afghanistan.
Regime changes in Bangladesh and Syria had been swift. In both the Islamic nations, the Nato-friendly Jihadists gained power. The year 2024 says goodbye on sombre note with ominous signs revealed that an era of military expansionism is on the anvil.
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