Blog Indian Punchline, 01.10.2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioWhat is absolutely certain about the visit by the US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to Saudi Arabia and his meeting with the powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday, is that it couldn’t have been for extending an invitation to the Summit for Democracy...
Biden prepares the ground for QUAD-3
Columna Indian Punchline, 27.07.2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioThe US President Joe Biden’s foreign-policy team seems increasingly unsure of the ground beneath their feet. They can see that the edifice that their 78-year old chief is erecting stands on shaky ground. But they lack the presence of mind to object. Biden has the supreme advantage that...
Gulf security paradigm in historic shift
Blog Indian Punchline, 20.04.2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioThe geopolitical alignments of the Gulf region are rapidly transforming both in bilateral and multilateral formats. Starting with the rapprochement between Qatar and Saudi Arabia in January, the common thread here is that the shift in the regional strategy under US President Joe Biden has been...
Peace at Last for Yemen?
Artículo Project-Syndicate, 30.07.2020 Thomas R. Pickering (embajador y ex subsec para asuntos políticos), Malcolm Rifkind, Norbert Röttgen, Yang Guang y Andrey KortunovEnding Yemen's bloody civil war is critical first and foremost for the country's long-suffering people. But a peace deal would also serve as a confidence-building step toward stability in the Middle East, and would send...
Saudi Arabia: What happens when the oil stops
Carta OpinionGlobal, Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y consul honorario de Chile (Beirut)The Middle East has been in turmoil since ever Second World War end. This increased starting turn of the century with the need for the USA to focus on China. The US plan expressed by G-W Bush was built around the concept of a “Greater...
Oil price war is more about market share
Columna Indian Punchline, 17.03.2020 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioThe common refrain is that Saudi Arabia has launched an oil price war against Russia by boosting production and selling at discounted price, which, coming on top of the pressure from demand destruction caused by climate change action and the onslaught on the global financial system from...
The Great Oil War of 2020 Has Begun. Can Russia Win?
Carta OpinionGlobal, 15.03.2020 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y consul honoriario de Chile en BeirutFor years in my charlas at the Diplomatic Academy of Chile, I have explained the link between the US dollar, as being the world currency reference, and world oil policy lead by the USA. I reminded that whoever of the Arab puppet leaders who...
Reading Sun Tzu in Tehran
Columna Strategic Culture, 15.01.2020 Alastair Crooke, ex agente británico (M16) y director (Conflict Forum-Beirut)Iran is not done. General Hajizadeh, Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, said in a briefing yesterday that the strike “was the starting point of a great operation”. He also underlined that “the strikes were not meant to cause fatalities: We intended [rather] to deliver...
Arabia Saudí debe aprender a cuidar de su petróleo
Columna El Confidencial, 18.09.2019 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de España
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Alguien debería enseñar a los saudíes a custodiar mejor su (nuestro) petróleo, porque el ataque a la petrolera Aramco ha dejado claro que ellos solos no lo saben hacer
Hablemos de Yemen
Columna La Opinion de Málaga, 26.11.2018 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de EspañaLo merece porque después de años de sufrimiento hay sobre la mesa una oportunidad para negociar un alto el fuego. Visité la zona cuando todavía eran dos países: uno que se titulaba república democrática y era una dictadura comunista con capital en Adén, y otro...