United States of America

India

The CANVAS Framework: Battling The Toolkits

What started as fighting a dictator in Serbia with OTPOR movement, became a subversive framework. That is used for such movements across the world, including in India with CJP. Laughtivism and comedy is part of that. Sharing ways to battle it.

By Desh Kapoor · Jul 26, 2026

Geopolitics

The World Between Orders

The post-Cold War order is fading, but the next world order has yet to emerge. As America, China, Europe, and Russia reposition for an uncertain future, old assumptions are collapsing. This is the story of borrowed power, strategic decline, rising rivals, and a world caught between eras.

By Desh Kapoor · May 31, 2026

India

Rubio's Kolkata Gambit: The Missionary-Intelligence Complex Comes for India

For eighty years, the cross and the agency have traveled together. Missionaries mapped territories, pacified populations, and laundered political operations as charity. When India asks where was the money used, Washington sends a Secretary of State to make the question stop.

By Desh Kapoor · May 24, 2026

China

Trump in China and the Story of the Shorter Chair

When Trump flew to Beijing carrying an unwinnable war, rising fuel prices, and a closed strait he could not reopen alone, Xi gave him pageantry with a twist. Nothing was signed. Yet, perhaps everything was decided.

By Desh Kapoor · May 17, 2026

United States of America

Trump as the Global Sovereign?

The Hormuz closure wasn't a miscalculation — it was the missing piece. With maritime routes uninsurable and IMEC the last corridor standing, Trump has seized control of global trade infrastructure through a private governance body accountable to no one but its chairman for life.

By Desh Kapoor · Apr 27, 2026

Iran War and the Thucydides Trap

Applying Graham Allison's Thucydides Trap to the 2026 Iran war. Blending asymmetric war economics, $3T market distortions, alliance fractures, and revealing the deeper US-China power struggle beneath the conflict.

By Desh Kapoor · Mar 24, 2026

United States of America

MAGA’s Civil War: How the Right’s Israel Split Is Rewiring Conservatism Globally

There is a MAGA civil was raging. Clash over what United States really ought to be. As it evolves, US is changing its role in the global scenario. We are examining the scenario.

By Desh Kapoor · Mar 15, 2026