‘TIS ANOTHER ELECTION YEAR …

Vladimir Putin’s ‘special operation ‘ in Ukraine is still going on , four months short of three full years, making it a ‘very special’ operation indeed, which some might even call a war ! It is also just over a year ago since Gaza’s Hamas launched a deadly raid in Israel, which led to massive destruction in Gaza and a startling redistribution of cards in the Middle East. Gone now are the promises of the better neighbourhoods of the Abraham Accord and the prospects of peace of the West with the communist East, leading to global de-nuclearisation and growth. China, grappling with serious economic issues of its own, is regularly sabre-rattling around Taiwan and all around the 9-dash line it wishes to impose on its maritime neighbours in the South China seas….