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by Vayutuvan
25 Apr 2026 01:48
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 12980
Views: 3862152

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Raja Krishnamoorthy, along with Ro Khanna, was part of the Pakistan Caucus. A case can be made that Ro Khanna is also a mainstream Democrat.

RK losing the primaries is one indication that Obama's influence in the DNC is dwindling fast.
by Vayutuvan
25 Apr 2026 01:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 12980
Views: 3862152

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Did CATO insti blog take the big whoosh of all the jobs getting sucked into the AI feeding frenzy? Recent graduates in CS/IT are not getting entry-level jobs. Why would companies hire from abroad and jump through the hoops of filing for H1Bs.
by Vayutuvan
24 Apr 2026 06:25
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society
Replies: 904
Views: 527423

Re: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society

@bala ji, are you saying yagnyavalkya smrti is as late as 300 CE Tamiz Sangham literature is older than yagnyavalkya smrti? Of course, I accept that there are several people with the same name. Case in point, as you pointed out, are Shankara (another name for "Adi" Shiva) and advaita found...
by Vayutuvan
24 Apr 2026 06:17
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 721
Views: 77487

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

vera_k wrote: 24 Apr 2026 06:12 Iran acquiring nuclear weapons will mean Uncle Xi made a decision and shipped some over (same as for Pakistan). It will mean Taiwan returns to China and end of the petro $.
That is very insightful. This could have happened even with JCPOA in place. So why did China hold back?
by Vayutuvan
24 Apr 2026 06:14
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 721
Views: 77487

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

@Arun_G ji, thanks for understanding. Yes, I agree and am aware that "Dealing a death blow" is a political decision. So let me rephrase my question to focus on what scientists and engineers can "calculate". Assumptions: 1. Trump fails to achieve his objectives 2. Iran has enough ...
by Vayutuvan
24 Apr 2026 04:05
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 721
Views: 77487

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

The question achieved its purpose. Nobody is forcing you to answer a probing question. Nevertheless, it stands.
by Vayutuvan
24 Apr 2026 03:53
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society
Replies: 904
Views: 527423

Re: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society

https://x.com/ShreeHistory/status/2047177721340661803?s=20 Yājñavalkya Smṛti around 300 CE and ... I thought Yājñavalkya Smṛti is older than 300 CE. As per Wikipedia (which more or less accepts dates by Western Indologists, i.e., preferring later dates than earlier dates) says the following: https:...
by Vayutuvan
24 Apr 2026 03:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Elections Modi 3.0
Replies: 525
Views: 153190

Re: Elections Modi 3.0

Lyndogh got a Magsaysay award IIRC.
by Vayutuvan
24 Apr 2026 03:19
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-Africa News and Discussion
Replies: 577
Views: 300726

Re: India-Africa News and Discussion

an extremely exhaustive report on the current situation in the horn of africa, some say the scene for the next regional war involving the middle east and the eastern parts of africa, about 80 pages of pdf if anyone is interested https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Fault-Lines-in-the-Horn...
by Vayutuvan
24 Apr 2026 03:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: International Nuclear Watch & Discussion
Replies: 1517
Views: 423563

Re: International Nuclear Watch & Discussion

I have a 1-2% suspicion that AmberG is a very specialised and deeply trained LLM that has been allowed to break out and post here. The user was human 4-5 years ago but then has been replaced by LLM. I dont know if the LLM “took care and retired” the original human … :mrgreen: :(( :P :rotfl: Probabl...
by Vayutuvan
24 Apr 2026 02:38
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 721
Views: 77487

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

The above still does not answer the question: how long before Iran develops a few working bombs? The above summary seems to say that it could be as long as a year, six months, or what? The reason the summary doesn't give a "hard date" is t hat scientists are not astrologer s . As Richard ...
by Vayutuvan
23 Apr 2026 05:05
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 721
Views: 77487

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

The above still does not answer the question: how long before Iran develops a few working bombs?

The above summary seems to say that it could be as long as a year, six months, or what?
by Vayutuvan
23 Apr 2026 04:01
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Iran News and Discussions
Replies: 3737
Views: 1008660

Re: Iran News and Discussions

Aadi Achint interview is a good one.

That kind of cynicism is warranted when it comes to the US, Pakistan, and China. Iran had done a disservice to itself by letting
the Pakis mediate.
by Vayutuvan
23 Apr 2026 02:50
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 13408
Views: 4788057

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

// India is being squeezed btwn Puke land and BD land. Also Sri Lanka buddhists are favored instead of Hindu India. @uddu gaaru, since we had some discussion on kautilya3, the Wikipedia editor being anti-India, another datapoint is that he and two other Wikipedia editors act in unison, supporting e...
by Vayutuvan
23 Apr 2026 01:53
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Evolution of Indian Strategic Thought-1
Replies: 689
Views: 513692

Re: Evolution of Indian Strategic Thought-1

A few lucky people landed tenure-track jobs in the US. Unfortunately, that was not possible for folks who did basic sciences. It had long been the case that if you had a PhD in Physics, Maths, Chemistry, or Biology PhD, you needed to be a genius to get into a good department. There too all of these ...
by Vayutuvan
23 Apr 2026 01:48
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Evolution of Indian Strategic Thought-1
Replies: 689
Views: 513692

Re: Evolution of Indian Strategic Thought-1

Academia and industry are parasitic organisms, and in a two way support system, each with a dual defined role of host nurtures the other. This is how the amriki MIC works. Is there any evidence of this happening here (1) ... Are we to understand that over the past tens of decades the IITs and other...
by Vayutuvan
21 Apr 2026 05:49
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality
Replies: 935
Views: 398568

Re: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality

Europeans are the biggest hypocrites of all.
by Vayutuvan
21 Apr 2026 05:48
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality
Replies: 935
Views: 398568

Re: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality

Where is the hypocrisy coming from? Almost all the lectures that come from the western world now a days are reserved for US, and some for china as most correctly understand that these two are the biggest culprits, especially the US. No, no, no. Some Eurogreens were giving lectures to India as well ...
by Vayutuvan
21 Apr 2026 01:56
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 721
Views: 77487

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

For instance women did not have the right to vote, anywhere. Women's suffrage in Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_Switzerland Women in Switzerland gained the right to vote in federal elections after a referendum in February 1971.[1] The first federal vote in which wom...
by Vayutuvan
21 Apr 2026 01:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 721
Views: 77487

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

@Jay gaaru, by not objecting to my "It is not too dissimilar to attributing every conflict to Sona Bandar and viewing it ... grating ...", you seem to be agreeing with me.
by Vayutuvan
21 Apr 2026 01:49
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 721
Views: 77487

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

It is not too dissimilar to attributing every conflict to Sona Bandar and viewing it ... grating ... wacky. Who is "deepstate"? The richest people in the world, and most of them are in the US. The whole point of MIC is to make money off of wars. Riddle me this. Why was Arabia made into KS...
by Vayutuvan
20 Apr 2026 22:33
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 721
Views: 77487

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

Not surprising, per se, but this habit of attributing every conflict to the “deep state” machinations and viewing it only from that angle is a bit grating and wacky at times. It is not too dissimilar to attributing every conflict to Sona Bandar and viewing it ... grating ... wacky. Who is "dee...
by Vayutuvan
20 Apr 2026 01:25
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 721
Views: 77487

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

@ShauryA T ji, I disagree. Common Iranians do not deserve that kind of punishment. If innocents die, their relatives would get radicalized. There must be a way out. On the other hand, those who are forming human chains are regime supporters, and they deserve some lesser punishment. The rub is that t...
by Vayutuvan
19 Apr 2026 22:56
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 12980
Views: 3862152

Re: Understanding the US - Again

@Tanaji ji,

Well said.
by Vayutuvan
19 Apr 2026 05:35
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality
Replies: 935
Views: 398568

Re: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality

Amber G. wrote: 19 Apr 2026 03:46 Thanks. FWIW saw something you may enjoy it (In math dhaga I wrote about this father - son pair - a legend too)
I did read it. Very interesting.
by Vayutuvan
19 Apr 2026 05:32
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 13408
Views: 4788057

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

uddu wrote: 17 Apr 2026 22:51 Indian because of the name? Those are Pseudo names you can adopt at will. You can be Mullah Vayutuvan.
@uddu gaaru, please take a look at this post of mine in AI dhaga.

viewtopic.php?p=2678704#p2678704
by Vayutuvan
19 Apr 2026 05:23
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: AI/Machine Learning, Bharat and Bhartiya IT Industry
Replies: 635
Views: 489222

Re: AI/Machine Learning, Bharat and Bhartiya IT Industry

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16800 arXiv:2602.16800v2 [cs.CR] 25 Feb 2026 Joshua Swanson ETH Zurich, Simon Lermen *MATS, Daniel Paleka *ETH Zurich, Michael Aerni ETH Zurich, Nicholas Carlini Anthropic Abstract anonymous Netflix ratings could be linked to p...
by Vayutuvan
19 Apr 2026 02:22
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 13408
Views: 4788057

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

@uddu gaaru, I have my own reason to believe that he is an Indian-origin professor. I am almost sure who that man is IRL.
by Vayutuvan
19 Apr 2026 01:55
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 12980
Views: 3862152

Re: Understanding the US - Again

The very fact people do subsidized education here and go there is because they are greedy. As if the earlier ones were good. I can give tons of examples from 2000s about the greediness I doubt all the people who came here 2000s are from institutes which gave them subsidized education. For example, ...
by Vayutuvan
19 Apr 2026 01:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 721
Views: 77487

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

So the "US Deep State" motive is to get a maximum return on their investments and that's the end game they are after. Outstanding. Why are you surprised? Economic interests always outweigh anything else. The American Civil War itself was a result of economic interests trumping human rights.
by Vayutuvan
19 Apr 2026 01:18
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality
Replies: 935
Views: 398568

Re: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality

Folks - Few Comments! The translation, is quite accurate.. Thanks. (Is that a popular saying in Telugu too? It is not popular as such. Telugu poetry is required reading in Telugu classes. We had to memorize a few important ones from Niti Shataka (the most famous translation is by Enugu Lakshmana Ka...
by Vayutuvan
19 Apr 2026 01:11
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality
Replies: 935
Views: 398568

Re: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality

I want to make the following points. 1. Europeans and the US do not want India to be self-sufficient in the area of energy. 2. They want to close off all options for India so that India is dependent on - Short Term: KSA, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, the US, and central asian countries for fossil fuels (which...
by Vayutuvan
18 Apr 2026 22:50
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 721
Views: 77487

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

GUYS!!GUYS!!what if the orange liar flailing his poop-filled diapers is, dare i say it? a Masterstroke? a 3d chess if you will? I believe, Patriots are in control after all. … on this same timeline china would have collapsed already though of its own internal inertia, so why bother? Deeply vested e...
by Vayutuvan
18 Apr 2026 22:38
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality
Replies: 935
Views: 398568

Re: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality

There’s a certain elegance to how none of that connects... :rotfl: I don't have a problem with the paper nor am I a climate change skeptic. I certainly am a climate change solutions skeptic, especially if the solutions are coming from Western/Eurotrash. I am also including those who want to hold th...
by Vayutuvan
18 Apr 2026 22:24
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality
Replies: 935
Views: 398568

Re: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality

(From memory) Following is the Telugu translation of the above by Ēnugu Lakṣmaṇakavi తివిరి ఇసుమున తైలంబు తీయవచ్చు | దవిలి మృగతృష్ణలో నీరు త్రాగవచ్చు | తిరిగి కుందేటికొమ్ము సాధించవచ్చు | జేరి మూర్ఖుల మనసు రంజింప రాదు || I up the ante since the game is being played with insults as the currency. One w...
by Vayutuvan
17 Apr 2026 22:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 13408
Views: 4788057

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

INVESTIGATION UPDATE: Editor “Kautilya3” controls over 20% of the @HinduAmerican page. Public revision logs show a consistent pattern: this account repeatedly restores the phrase “Hindu nationalist” in the opening paragraph — the text search engines and AI systems display. Whenever another editor r...
by Vayutuvan
17 Apr 2026 22:28
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Internal Security Watch
Replies: 7590
Views: 2832262

Re: Internal Security Watch

https://x.com/i/status/2045153690483658867 @ShefVaidya So it is not just @Lenskart_com that has these blatantly anti-Hindu grooming guidelines, got this message today, apparently, even brands like @ForestEssential and @Lifestyle_Store too stop their female employees from wearing their bindi at the ...
by Vayutuvan
17 Apr 2026 22:19
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 721
Views: 77487

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

bala wrote: 16 Apr 2026 23:32 Mods, is the above (scientists missing or dead) relevant to this thread?
Probably a CT that Iran has coopted the missing people to help them build nucs or some such nonsense.
by Vayutuvan
17 Apr 2026 09:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 12980
Views: 3862152

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Jay wrote: 17 Apr 2026 03:33 BTW, what the hack is this "heritage american" classification? Seems like something right out of x'tian white supremacist categorization.
You, Jay sir, are woefully underinformed! :eek: