The war in Ukraine has transformed into a high-tech siege of attrition where diplomacy has proven futile. From direct Russia-Ukraine talks in 2022 to Alaska Summit in 2025, any attempt to broker a peace settlement has consistently ended in a deadlock.
India has been redefining nationalism along Hindu majoritarian lines since 2014, when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed power. The Indian military, reimagined as muscular “patriots” instead of professionals tasked to defend the state, has been at the heart of this saffronized redefinition.
A new race to the moon is underway; not merely to erect flags, but to prospect for and extract water and helium-3, establish nuclear power plants and capitalize on the economic and strategic advantages that will shape the balance of power in space for decades to come.
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