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• This is, in fact, the biggest setback to Indian foreign policy interests in the region in the last 25 years since Pakistan became a nuclear power in May 1998. This setback comes on the heels of a growing assertion amongst smaller states of South Asia, including the Maldives, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, whose opinion leaders are openly denounci...
• What is even more amazing in the case of Bangladesh's 'Second Liberation' is that, apart from being a triumph of democracy, it has destroyed myths that had been promoted by Sheikh Hasina over the decades. Probably, for the first time in any country's history, statues of the Hasina-proclaimed 'Father of the Nation' Sheikh Mujibur Rahman have also be...
• Similarly, in the base of Palestine, Israel, which is a close ally of Modi's India, has suffered the biggest blow for the last 75 years, when it has been unable to defeat the Palestine resistance movement, Hamas, or destroy the popular resistance movement of Lebanon, Hezbollah. Israel, in the words of the American prominent academic and writer, Pro...
• As far as the military campaign is concerned, the CNN, on August 5, gave an interesting report based on collaboration with American think tanks, that despite the Gaza Genocide, for Israel this has become an "unwinnable war with no military victory in sight, while Hamas's strength and support remain undiminished and Hamas has been able to rebuild i...
• So what are the key lessons for India in South Asia and Israel in the Middle East after their respective setbacks and biggest blows to their image and interests? For both, it should be a humbling experience as it demonstrates that Might is never Right and Right is Might. For Israel, it shows that the power and mystique it had built around its power...

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