Underlining that Russian invasion of Ukraine had unleashed an amorphous grouping of state alliances with potential to upend global security architecture, the eminent writer on defence matters and incumbent Chandigarh Member Parliament Manish Tewari, former Union Information and Broadcasting Minister on Saturday said that the axis of Russia-China-North Korea-Iran had dangerously jeopardized the nuclear order put out under the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NPT) mechanism posing a threat to international peace and stability.
In the backdrop of current geo political developments with ongoing Russian-Ukraine war, Israel-Hamas conflict, India is on its own, Tewari said here mincing no words, while adding that a calibrated approach was required to wade through the irrevocably changing global security situation.
Tewari was sharing his mind here at the inaugural session at the 8th iteration of the Military Literature Festival (MLF), as part of a group discussion on 'Implications for India vis-a-vis the West in the backdrop of the Axis of Russia-China-North Korea-Iran pivot of geography.'
The session was moderated by Major General Dr Mandip Singh, who laid out the scope and ambition of world powers to grab land, energy and defence resources for their nations for the next two decades. We as a nation need to evolve a comprehensive security doctrine to negotiate this situation and tide above efforts to constrain us globally where on one side China and Russia are both getting closer to Pakistan, Tewari said.
Our security and energy needs make us dependent on Russia while we need to be cognisant of the fact that Russia is not putting all its eggs in one basket (India) and is hedging its bet by trying to forge a relationship with Pakistan, our immediate and persistent security threat, Tewari added.
Referring to the Trump election, Tewari said, if Trump as a US President gets his way to enforce his isolationist tendencies and unravel the US role from global responsibility it has so proudly overtaken since the World War II, the world would be in a greater turmoil for which Indian security establishment and policy planners need to deliberate upon very seriously.
Referring to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tewari said it won’t come as a surprise if the US had known about the invasion a year or more before. "Did the US let Russia invade Ukraine to force Russia to suffer another Afghanistan, Tewari said. The fact that Putin visited only India just before the invasion must not be lost on anyone, Tewari added.