Bharat Rakshak

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Man-hours of implementing and testing the FBW can't be leapfrogged without investing money and giving time to our scientists. What is in the lab doesn't matter much in projecting your strength, what matters is what is fielded. The gap lies in a fieldable system and owning it. If I said gap of 45 ye...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/us/politics/nuclear-arms-treaties.html Once Russia gets donetsk, and war goes into less russian speaking regions - tactical nuclear weapons will become an option for Putin. So if Russian offensive stalls post donetsk, russia could use tactical nuclear weapons. ......

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Congrats to the entire BR community! Thanks to the admins & moderators and the contributors who have opened so many eyes.

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Yup, except none of Hitler's self respect. elensly's antics remind me of scammers I used to see in Mumbai decades ago, using a seemingly sick bleeding child for begging. :D The difference is that a Mumbai beggar was at least ashamed of begging, Zelenskyy is full of self righteousness. Ukraine is ac...

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... If the US could put a man on the moon in 8 years 50+ years ago, ............. ... The US has a culture of risk. India does not. Lives and materials were lost to reach the moon. It has been posted on BR that a single LCA crash could have terminated the program. ... True. That is why this needs t...

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... Even if we start in mission mode now, getting to that final end point is imo somewhere around 2050. ... If the US could put a man on the moon in 8 years 50+ years ago, we should be able to develop a jet engine in less time than that given what know now and what we can spend today. We need peopl...

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1. Immediate ceasefire 2. Permanent #Ukrainian neutrality 3. De facto independence for #Crimea and #Donbas 4. Withdrawal of Russian troops and end to sanctions on Russia. If Ukraine has the sense to accept this, this may be a way out. US is intent on increasing the pain for Russia at the cost of th...

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Italy has circulated a meaningful 4-point peace plan to the #UnitedNations for the #UkraineRussiaWar - 1. Immediate ceasefire 2. Permanent #Ukrainian neutrality 3. De facto independence for #Crimea and #Donbas 4. Withdrawal of Russian troops and end to sanctions on Russia. https://twitter.com/Aggreg...

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When Graham mentions one possible solution being Donass (DPR/LPR) going back to Ukraine as autonomous provinces, he is talking out of his ass.

Russia has started integration of these areas into Russia; it is unlikely he is unaware of it.

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... Thats why I was saying that Ukraine as we know it until now will cease to exist. Whatever (if it) remains will be so irrelevant, it joining NATO/EU or some Intergalactic Alliance will make no difference. I agree that Ukraine will cease to exist as it exists now. But even the remaining part join...

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This thread has been derailed with all the agenda, feelings and emotions in replies. The goal of the thread was to stay away from partisanship (there is a thread to discuss agenda and opinions) and focus only on strategy / war tactics. Why is a different perspective so hard to digest? I do not agre...

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Some of the western media have tried passing off Mariopol as some sort of a modern day Thermopylae.

No version of Thermopylae speaks of the Greeks begging to be evacuated.

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Obama got a Nobel before waging the wars. :mrgreen: that is the value of a peace Nobel. makes one violent. :rotfl: I guess you could look at it that way. He received it in his first year as President and it did not have the desired effect as per the a non-voting member of the Nobel Committe. :D htt...

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https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1527958894575857664 The war in Ukraine can only be resolved through "diplomacy", Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told a domestic television channel on Saturday amid a deadlock in negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow. https://www.barrons.com/news/zelen...

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Sorry this is OOT on this thread and I have been warned but cannot resist a one liner. ..But why should he expend so much of his political capital on setting the affairs straight in defence.... the common man who votes doesnt even understand difference bw screwdriver giri and domestic capabilities. ...

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Russia's response to Sweden's and Finland's formal application to join NATO is baffling. Not really, skumar ji. At the moment, he/Russia can't open another front or two. Better secure Donetsk/Luhansk and possibly Odessa. That is proving to be hard going. Before Russia initiated this conflict, I am ...

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You know I often have this debate about the US with people who regard them as angels. I do like America and Americans, however considering their history of disasters I cannot understand why American foreign policy is regarded as some sort of genious plan. --- The entire American foreign policy esta...

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Centre for Democracy, Pluralism and Human Rights (CDPHR) has released a report on human rights violations in the US. India should bring up this report every time that USCIRF or US State Department opens their mouths. I hope this is what Ext Affairs Minister was referring to. https://www.cdphr.org/US...

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Russia's response to Sweden's and Finland's formal application to join NATO is baffling. Putin says he has no problems with them joining NATO but any "expansion of military infrastructure into their territories" would provoke a response. What does he expect will happen once they are part o...

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They need to create a heightened threat perception to make India buy Amreeki maal in desperation while Russia is occupied. That's why regime change happened in Pak, they can get always some Chinese general or CPC leader with kids studying in the US to overreach locally like last time. I won't be su...

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True, the viciousness of the sanctions orgy surprised many as well. Part of me thinks EU countries were tricked into it by UK & US using Ursula, Scholz and Borrell who I'm inclined to think now are their stooges. I'm seeing the UK & US wanting to turn the world into a Bucha street littered ...

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Happens steadily over time. You'll see it for ex in western media coverage around Modi's visits abroad, has also happened during covid lockdown, china standoff, COPE, CAA, 370... - always in a negative slant, sometimes directly, often written by Indian name handles. Didn't you notice the reaction t...

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... --Also, your comment about Bandera is misplaced and old news ... As you have mentioned his name hopefully you spend time reading and educating yourself on the topic and understand the story and understand that it was annulled and the reason was the uproar it caused everywhere, not just by Russi...

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It is already being painted as Modi's (hindutva) war on non-hindus and the west. The volume cant be increased since there is no atrocity p@rn of bodybags to show like they did in Bucha. But Modi will replace Putin as the west's favourite monster before 2024. Do not see much "evidence" abo...

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Is there any proof of calling Ukraine nazis ? Would really like to know. Was it not the Ukraine that suffered when Germans and Nazis attacked Russia If someone does not know or living under a rock - I can post the video after video of the military super power the Russian tanks and troops getting ha...

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Cross posting from the old Combat Tactics thread wrt "official" information. Zelenskyy is exhulting "Mission Accomplished!" and Ukraine and their sponsors are "officially" claiming the Mariopol surrender as an "evacuation". So much so for official information ...

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I do know that the US threw the Taliban out, spent 20 yrs and billion, if not trillions, in Afghanistan and turned over the nation back to the Taliban. Not an assessment. WRT this conflict, who cares if it is an assessment or not. There is a war going on and no war follows any logic, least of the B...

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The Solomon Islands issue lays bare western hypocrisy. Australian PM Morrison says any Chinese military base in Solomon Islands would be a "red line" for Australia. Solomon Islands, while being 1,500 kms from Australia and has never fought with it, presents a threat and has no sovereign ri...

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Top Commander and Chief of Staff captured by Russians northwest of Azovstal.

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...the russkis reacted and avenged horrific german barbarity on their people and it was well deserved too. ... there is no selective barbarism or secular barbarism like the abrahamics like to justify, or even acceptable or justifiable or relative barbarism. barbarism is always absolute and it is al...

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... war brings out the worst in a human being afghan culture in war is one of the worst, notwithstanding poetic and romantic campfire tales about barbecue tandoori meat and noble savages. the russkis reacted and avenged horrific german barbarity on their people and it was well deserved too. .. The ...

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Indonesia has invited Russia to the G20 Summit and Putin has accepted.

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...This IMO is more revealing than all the reports on the status of the war in Donbass. ... Very true. ... Ukranians are the first to pay for their bad karma of persecution of Russophone people of their own country for over a decade. ... We cannot forget that the Russians are more than capable and ...

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_DwOZOaJfY4 TLDR Article about the interview on Al Arabiya site Few other points Lavrov lays out clearly that Ukraine has been changing its position during the negotiations. This operation will stop when objectives are met (in response to question about May 9) Gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria will...

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... In other words, "pumping advanced weaponry into Ukraine" is simply a windfall for US arms manufacturers at taxpayer expense that will have no bearing on the outcome of the war. And what a windfall it is! https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/28/ukraine-funding-request-congress-biden-0...

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Welch ji has perhaps not come across this: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html Reminds me of how Zidane in the 2006 football World Cup was insulted and provoked repeatedly until he lost his patience and head butted Materazzi. All these sanctions on Russia are like Zidane's send o...

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.... So the US which has practically no presence in Ukraine was able to pull off a coup right under the noses of Russia, which has deep ties with Ukraine, impressive. Even taking this nonsense at face value, so what? That is no excuse for the absolute destruction Russia has been raining on Ukraine....

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