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by pankajs
31 Jan 2021 21:23
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 14901
Views: 2782097

Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Pankajs ji, For #1, the Tikait gent is still there at the same location and has in fact called for reinforcements which are arriving every day. The end result is UAPA or not, they are still there. We are still back to square one, except that Tikait has cases against him. Cases matter if you get arr...
by pankajs
31 Jan 2021 20:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 14901
Views: 2782097

Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

<snip> Now coming back to the UAPA cases .... 1. While GOI was able to slap the cases without a murmur after the Red fort invasion, it would have been impossible to do so before in the eyes of the public. Such cards don't fall into your lap everyday . 2. Police personal family are already out prote...
by pankajs
31 Jan 2021 20:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 14901
Views: 2782097

Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

You are assuming the farmers broker Gang cares for the Supreme Court . They simply don’t. The attitude is give us what we want and nothing else. They don’t care for optics . It is now a matter of honour, caste, Delhi fateh and Hate BJp Strange that you would write the above inspite of the evidence ...
by pankajs
31 Jan 2021 18:26
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 14901
Views: 2782097

Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Does not matter what the "farmer leaders" want ... Lets go back to the Red fort invasion for a moment. I was a success as far as the Khalisthani and Pakistanis where concerned but in the eye of the Indian public it was a massive failure of the "farmer leaders" and their image has...
by pankajs
31 Jan 2021 15:20
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 14901
Views: 2782097

Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Gents; what are your feelings on the farmer broker gang protests? To be frank, over the last two days I am not very happy to see how things are going. I was expecting things to be under control after Jan 26th, but looks like things are not going to end any time soon. Not even a single protest site ...
by pankajs
31 Jan 2021 14:38
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 14901
Views: 2782097

Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

One should always ask people that hate gujarati businessmen what they think about other business powers. Apple, Google, Facebook, huawei, etc. Are they really anti big businesses or do they just hate gujarati people? Off course., The communists and anarchists are hating everything Gujaratis ., they...
by pankajs
19 Dec 2020 21:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Biden Presidency impacts on India
Replies: 256
Views: 54413

Re: Biden Presidency impacts on India

Some strong dreams here :lol: Delusional more like. Before her presidential run she was a self professed black baptist. During the run she ate ate some idli and dosa. During the victory speech she was introduced as a South Asia. Why was she introduced as South Asian instead of an Indian-American? T...
by pankajs
19 Dec 2020 13:35
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pakistan-warns-india-planning-surgical-151618403.html Pakistan's foreign minister on Friday accused neighboring India of planning a “surgical strike" against his Islamic nation, the latest in a war of words between the two nuclear-armed rivals. Since this is relevant...
by pankajs
19 Dec 2020 13:24
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

Correct on the first bit but I differ on the 2nd bit. India, on its own, decided it was not prudent to develop the border infra lest it makes the task of the invading Chinese easier. This was the official GOI policy following the '62 war. That's just for public consumption . Roads are not cheap and...
by pankajs
18 Dec 2020 18:31
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

nam, Your premise of capitulation won't happen. India of 2020 is not that in 1962. So rest doesn't follow. India of 2020 is not that in 1962. But China of 2030 will be enormous than in 2020. Around 2030 there will be decisive war and we will suffer huge losses. Thanks to lethargic attitude in procu...
by pankajs
18 Dec 2020 18:28
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

This is something that should be required to be debated at every education institute before allowing out of the 10th grade. Its not the question of walking in. It is the question of keeping it. We need to develop the infrastructure on our side . That's what we are doing after many years. They stall...
by pankajs
18 Dec 2020 18:25
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

Sir, with greatest of respect the last part is just devoid of military logic and appreciation of terrain and ground realities. Please rest assured that we are in well prepared defensive positions with enough reserves. The first makes any attack by China suicidal and the second means immediate count...
by pankajs
20 Nov 2020 12:25
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2020 US election results discussion
Replies: 901
Views: 120356

Re: 2020 US election results discussion

Looks like this circus will continue till January per reports? Or is there a specific timeline by which the court cases have to be addressed by? IIRC, the election has be certified by the 14 of the Dec for a transition of power. If if doesn't happen then the power will be handed over the proterm sp...
by pankajs
18 Nov 2020 19:43
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

How can Cheena claim to have pushed India back from the Kailash range and yet demand that India vacate the Kailash range? :rotfl: https://twitter.com/atahasnain53/status/1328704054596300805 I learn that China is spreading such misformation as the one below. Don't believe an iota of this. All the hei...
by pankajs
18 Nov 2020 16:42
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

If the Chinese had deployment/used such a weapon they wouldn't be at the negotiating table but rather sitting at those ridgelines/peaks and thumbing thier nose at India. That they are the negotiating table is the first counter factual. The latest writeup in the Chinese state media where they are st...
by pankajs
18 Nov 2020 11:59
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

If the Chinese had deployment/used such a weapon they wouldn't be at the negotiating table but rather sitting at those ridgelines/peaks and thumbing thier nose at India. That they are the negotiating table is the first counter factual. The latest writeup in the Chinese state media where they are sti...
by pankajs
15 Nov 2020 19:33
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w2JUwnhW90 Why Depsang plains, not just Pangong Tso withdrawal, is critical to India-China LAC disengagement 8w2JUwnhW90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCT4N2VMQ4 How Modi has made a ‘Nehruvian’ half-blunder on China & ignored investing in the military jPCT4N2V...
by pankajs
15 Nov 2020 19:29
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

As I have stated from after the Aug end "re-adjustment" we have more than compensated for the the Chinese gambit on the LCA. So we are comfortably placed wrt the LAC if there is no breakthrough.
by pankajs
15 Nov 2020 18:03
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

All POK too is Indian territory but Iam yet to see GOI make a play for it dispite constant shelling, firing, infiltration attempt, etc etc.

If we are not booting the Chinese or for that matter the Baki's inspite of their constant nuisance on the loc there must be a rason.
by pankajs
04 Nov 2020 20:29
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2020 US election results discussion
Replies: 901
Views: 120356

Re: 2020 US election results discussion

2-3 of the Swing states the difference is within 1%.

Expect a recount and a court fight. The tally looks neck to neck and therefore the result cannot be declared without accounting for each swing state.
by pankajs
04 Nov 2020 16:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
Replies: 6236
Views: 1737720

Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)

https://twitter.com/NileshShah68/status/1323673429984227328 -Will take ~3- 6 months to remove container shortages - Exports to China picking up rapidly with food and food products contributing ~ 60 %. Steel / pipes accounting for the balance . - Business is booming with all time high record volumes ...
by pankajs
03 Nov 2020 23:52
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2079302

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Je sui oui fui!

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1323532892916645888
Merkel says fight against 'Islamist terrorism' is common struggle
by pankajs
03 Nov 2020 15:14
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
Replies: 6236
Views: 1737720

Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)

Very strange happenings of the China/Vietnam border

https://twitter.com/bill_hayton/status/ ... 0282235904
"Reports have also emerged that China is constructing a wall along its border with Vietnam in a bid to stem the outward flow of smuggled migrant workers."
by pankajs
03 Nov 2020 15:12
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

The Chinis have been pushing the next round of talks to after US election. Looks like next Chini action will be determined by the result of US election. More than the land grab, there are two things Chini expect out of us. We should not be in US camp and no large scale deployment from us on LAC. I ...
by pankajs
03 Nov 2020 12:01
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2079302

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Embedded video ... KC Singh is the one talking in the video. Now the Indian liberals have outsourced their fighting to their US/European masters / collaborators. I remember how the WaPo and NYT went hammer and tings after Modi's re-election in GE 2019. There has been a relative silence ONLY because ...
by pankajs
03 Nov 2020 01:09
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

https://twitter.com/nitingokhale/status/1322788416208007169 Its 1st November. For the military deployed in Ladakh, winter has officially begun although temperatures had already started plummeting below zero last fortnight when I was there. It is also three weeks since the last round of Corps Command...
by pankajs
02 Nov 2020 23:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
Replies: 6236
Views: 1737720

Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)

https://twitter.com/shehzadhqazi/status/1322227491377946624 9/x: We created @ChinaBeigeBook as a check on behind-the-curtain machinations common in NBS data. Our Q3 stats, gathered in real-time say GDP growth is nowhere near official figures: all sectors are contracting YoY, interior provinces are i...
by pankajs
02 Nov 2020 22:59
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2079302

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1322998245950476288 I'm noticing increasing hatred towards Substack, as if independent reporting creates distrust . It's a bizarre authoritarian strain, last seen in the mid-2000s dismissal of 'bloggers' who didn't like the war in Iraq. Blogger ethics panel!...
by pankajs
02 Nov 2020 19:37
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

We did not want 2 active borders. Till the latest Chinese gambit on the LAC, Modi's India was satisfied with status quo on the "altered" LAC that IT has inherited in 2014 !!! Is that a surprise? Not really. Modi's India and every GOI before it wanted to avoid having to confront China on t...
by pankajs
01 Nov 2020 20:41
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2079302

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

The WOW was for pinpoint identification of the root of the "Islamophobia cover" provided to the Islamist by the leftist ensconced in the US universities.
by pankajs
01 Nov 2020 20:32
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - November 11, 2019
Replies: 2848
Views: 922899

Re: Terroristan - November 11, 2019

https://twitter.com/sidhant/status/1322777837422608385
Gilgit Baltistan's status to be elevated as a province of Pakistan announces Imran Khan govt's minister Gandapur
by pankajs
01 Nov 2020 20:14
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2079302

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Just WOW! https://twitter.com/ColeStangler/status/1320291370595241989 After slamming “Islamo-leftism ,” France’s education minister has a new interview out today: “ There’s a combat to be led” against an intellectual framework coming from US universities and intersectionality , which go against Fran...
by pankajs
01 Nov 2020 20:01
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

Sir, getting back GB is a stated position of the BJP and its ministers. This will happen militarily. Aksai Chin will be negotiated after we get back GB, at which point China will have no reason to not negotiate. AND getting back Aksai Chin too is a stated position of GOI but also Modi's GOI in the ...
by pankajs
01 Nov 2020 19:54
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

Even now India is willing to live with pre- March/April status quo and that status quo will NOT be the 1962 status quo but an "altered" version of the 1962 LAC. That again is not a surprise. Forget China, even with Bakistan, till very recently, India was willing to live with the current L...
by pankajs
01 Nov 2020 17:46
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

We did not want 2 active borders. Till the latest Chinese gambit on the LAC, Modi's India was satisfied with status quo on the "altered" LAC that IT has inherited in 2014!!! Is that a surprise? Not really. Modi's India and every GOI before it wanted to avoid having to confront China on the...
by pankajs
01 Nov 2020 09:36
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5263
Views: 1736031

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

All talk here of India doing anything in GB is the same hot air as the talk of India marching into Lhasa in the starting days of this thread. You can't have such grand plans when you are making emergency purchases of rifles and clothing to fulfill basic needs. Uri & Balakot had set the bar for ...
by pankajs
30 Oct 2020 17:51
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2079302

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

https://twitter.com/cedric_o/status/1321814434340360194 I just spoke with the MD of @TwitterFrance. The account of @chedetofficial must be immediately suspended . If not, @twitter would be an accomplice to a formal call for murder. France lays down the line officially for Twitter. Twitter would be c...
by pankajs
30 Oct 2020 17:37
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2079302

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1321869227226222593 My Resignation From The Intercept The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles . The guy ...
by pankajs
30 Oct 2020 11:54
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2079302

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

https://twitter.com/bhartijainTOI/status/1321845128240136192 NIA books AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan on charges of disrupting its raid at house of former Delhi Minorities Commission chief Zafarul Islam Khan in Delhi. Raid was done in case against NGOs allegedly using funds raised in name of charitable ac...
by pankajs
30 Oct 2020 01:51
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2079302

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

https://twitter.com/prasannavishy/status/1321781229297913856 Narcotics Case: ED Arrests CPM Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan’s son Bineesh Kodiyeri For Links To Drug Peddler Mohammed Anoop https://swarajyamag.com/news-brief/narcotics-case-ed-arrests-cpm-secretary-kodiyeri-balakrishnans-son-bineesh-ko...