Showing posts with label Ukraine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ukraine. Show all posts

Monday, April 7, 2025

Resources To Understand The 2025 Budget

How Sithanen was manipulating his budget numbers between 2005 and 2010.

The eternal joke of little room to manoeuvre. Interview to Jimmy Jean-Louis on Pravind Jugnauth's first budget after GE2010.

Why Sithanen budgets became non-events.

The sharpest report on Mauritius in a long time.

First Lutchmeenaraidoo budget in 25 years.

The situation just before Covid-19.

Understanding budget numbers in 2013.

Why Sithanen policies have been an abject failure.

Fact-checking important things.

A downloadable gem to understand Mauritius thoroughly.

How bad has been the war in Ukraine for Mauritius?

Saturday, September 24, 2022

Why Ukraine Conflict Was Predictable


Listen to this interesting talk by John Mearsheimer and get many obvious answers: Ukraine is a badly-divided country, the Monroe Doctrine and more. 

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

1971 All Over Again


When you dig a bit deeper in the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine you can’t help notice the similarity with the Bangladesh Genocide that happened fifty one years ago. At that time West Pakistanis who spoke mostly Urdu and had fairer skin didn’t want to transfer power to Bengali-speaking East Pakistanis after they had won a general election even though both sides were overwhelmingly Muslim. 

Now, West Ukrainians don’t like East Ukrainians because they speak Russian although 80% of the population of the country are Christians. Russia has also moved in Ukraine because Ukraine hinted at joining NATO and this is an unacceptable security risk for the biggest country in the world. The above video is from the Kremlin-sponsored RT but a 2015 documentary by French journalist Anne Laure Bonnel essentially corroborates its content.