Some off beat reads for the weekend:
How the West is losing Ukraine (Brahma Chellaney)
China’s lack of response to Pelosi visit (RT)
Abe Sinzo and the end of the Kishi era (ANU)
Who runs Pakistan? (Dawn)
The shadow war between Israel & North Korea (TOI)
Western media & the war on truth in Ukraine (Al Jazeera)
Balkan states creep closer to Russia (American Conservative)
Yemen’s socialist experiment (Jacobin)
On Russia’s Cultural Wars (Zocalo)
On the Zawahiri assassination (Vir Sanghvi)
Disaster at 18,200 feet (BI)
How Tomato ketchup became Indian (Fifty Two)
How the Pope created Europe’s first bureaucracy (Palladium)
Drive: Chikkamagaluru in a Jeep Compass (Team BHP)
The rise of open water swimming in India (Mint)