Anil Chopra - Volume VII, Issue 21

DPG is deeply committed to the growth of India’s national power and purpose, the security and prosperity of the people of India and India’s contributions to the global public good. [...] 14 Unquiet Flows the Dnieper Unquiet Flows the Dnieper: The Unfolding Dynamics of Global Disruption by Anil Chopra Introduction The death and demolition being wrought on the vast expanses of the Eurasian steppes, stretching outward from both banks of the Dnieper, is eerily reminiscent of the upheavals witnessed a century ago in adjacent lands abutting its sister stream to the east, so evocatively. [...] The increasing vulnerability of non-nuclear states to the ferocity of modern conventional weapons has been starkly highlighted by the Russian decision to attack the Ukraine in both 2014 and 2022, after the denuclearisation of the nation by way of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994. [...] In the words of Thucydides, the ultimate realist, “Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.” The ‘new ’India must take heed of this truism, and devote its considerable energies and genius on conceiving and adopting the internal reforms, re- organisation and policies necessary to compete, and to tra. [...] More than merely a geopolitical contest of wills and power between Russia and China on one hand, and the West on the other, it is apparent that the Ukraine imbroglio heralds the renewal of the struggle for dominance between two vastly different and incompatible ideologies, a contest which has been simmering ever since the fall of the USSR.