As war clouds darken the horizon, India cannot afford to forget that it is not for backward third world republics whose principal export is manpower to indulge in heroics on the world’s battlefields. Today’s peasantry would laugh at anyone who tells them to fight for Israel because India recognised the Zionist state on September 17, 1950, which was NarendraModi’s birthday. Also, while oil is essential for India’s growth, oil interests do not drive India as they do America, which treats the world’s biggest oil producers with greed and envy. Having just formed the Board of Peace, the US and Israel have begun the board’s first war on Iran. “It has been fashionable to proclaim, or at least to predict, a replay of the ‘Great Game’ in the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Source: The Telegraph March 14, 2026 01:58 UTC