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there's a curious sentiment, always crops up in all geographic areas, the difference between the maritime and the continental states https://archive.is/xGwtu Policymakers and scholars in the West talk about Southeast Asia as a coherent region, but it has always been divided. The region’s 700 million...

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^https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts ... ture-china

theres a recent podcast on this topic, 50 minutes long, i will wait for the transcript that will get released in a couple of days

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the following popped up on my radar, written by an indian org, somehow taking inspiration from odysseus to the growth of brics?? i remain unconvinced, think the author might have been hyped by the odysseus movie due to be released next year, a couple of wiki deep dives later into the subject, and he...

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https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chance-save-myanmar Since Myanmar’s military overthrew the country’s democratically elected government in 2021, it has ruled with devastating violence. Junta forces have bombed civilians in a bid to suppress rebellious provinces, killing thousands. Junta-support...

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https://warontherocks.com/2025/10/explaining-trumps-surprising-turn-to-pakistan/ Islamabad secured the lowest tariff rate it enjoys in any major market. The Balochistan Liberation Army was elevated to full Foreign Terrorist Organization status by the U.S. Department of State. A long-dormant joint c...

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not india related, for now and on the surface atleast https://www.foreignaffairs.com/sudan/sudans-war-shape-things-come On September 12, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States announced a joint road map for ending Sudan’s devastating two-and-a-half-year civil war. The a...

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lel, a full year with nary a movement reported, such relevance, much importance a sad necro bump for you buddy, you are likely to be put in cold storage for at least the next 3 years https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/quad-asean-trade-cooperation-key-to-regional-economic-security/ Quad-ASEAN trade co...

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https://www.jpost.com/international/article-869240 Defense pact with Saudi Arabia positions Pakistan as a key player in Trump's postwar plan According to a press release from Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs late Tuesday night, the foreign ministers of Pakistan, Jordan, the United Arab Emirat...

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this is a smart move by the pakis, mineral rights in pojk when they should not even have the territorial rights to that place, this is something that goi must say something on in an official capacity, it is technically our soil where such deals are made as for the pakis, they have the opportunity to...

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Tech dominance - current US, China, future India Cyrano ji, i believe that this statement is more of an optimistic hail mary rather then an actual forecast, india, as is, is unable to compete in technologies of "yesterday" and today, why should it then be a dominant leader in the future? ...

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https://x.com/AdityaRajKaul/status/1970111029083549769 @AdityaRajKaul 🚨 Big Blow to Maoists in Chhattisgarh. Two top Maoist commanders - Vikalp (Gudsa Usendi), Maoist spokesperson & Central Committee member, and Kosa (Kedai Satyanarayana Reddy) - killed in encounter with ITBP & DRG. 🪖 ₹40L ...

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Are you sure about this? FAA regulations in the US allow users to book a ticket and cancel within 24 hours without penalty. No need to wait for a 15 minute timeout. two points to this: why pay actual money when blocking can be attained by not paying in the first place, asoical autists as a rule do ...

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https://x.com/ByRakeshSimha/status/1969958646244372670 @ByRakeshSimha MAGA supporters on 4Chan launched "Clog the Toilet" operation to block Indian H1B workers from returning to the US by reserving flight seats without paying. Flight prices spiked. A 4Chan post urged, "Clog the fligh...

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I can find a couple on yandex, normal search engines have been heavily lobotomised, google pre 2012 was such a beautiful beast, infinitely better than the google just pre gemini, it has been progressively getting worse since, though I suppose the world only uses 6 sites at max Insta Shitter Plebbit ...

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Translation: false flag attack imminent, us coming back into afghanistan one way or another

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good article https://www.fpri.org/article/2025/09/nuclear-weapons-in-space-orbital-bombardment-and-strategic-stability/ However, the moves by U.S. adversaries to hold at risk U.S. assets in space require new thinking about how to protect those same assets, deter the use of nuclear weapons to target ...

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Unfortunate turn of events for the brethren, but this is now a time where opportunities must be firmly seized, we were discussing here the lack of Indian alternatives to Big Tech, now there might be ample workforce on the way to effect some of these changes. With some cushion in savings and a weaken...

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Also i would like to say to the foreign think tank babus who are sitting with the grinning rictus of ever lasting hope that india will fall anyday now, india has survived when there was not enough to eat, hopes that the Indian establishments are dodgy and rickety and would succumb to the slightest p...

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I don't think that the us intends to go for a wholesale change in any entire country, rather they are imo trying to engineer breakaway chunks and then insert themselves as security guarantors between multiple entities There is precedence, the very recent us as a guarantor role in the nagorno karabak...

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Bigger issues on the way https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-suggests-us-troops-could-return-to-base-in-afghanistan-citing-its-proximity-to-rival-china/ar-AA1MPUcI?ocid=BingNewsSerp&PC=EMMX01 President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that he is working to reestablish a U.S. presence at...

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A_Gupta ji, if you look at the 3 line post that is associated with the news of antifa, there is mention of some agencies for which india is in the top 2 position of being affected by, the top one being paksitan which after all is the biggest victim of terrorism i am not the board police, i am also n...

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^ can be better served in the other thread, no? We here do not know nor hold troth with TV celebs or mouthpieces of another nation, and i will be presumptuous here in saying that I speak for all that we would like to keep it that way, unless it is in any way related to india

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Some are bad terrorists and deserve censure, others are good terrorists that can be rehabilitated
A wide gulf seperates the two

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current climes from the views of a christian site https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/are-we-living-in-the-twilight-of-democracy/ In 1930, Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset published the book for which he is best known, The Revolt of the Masses. Though he wrote a century ago and his focus was...

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ho boy, this one guy dying really did a number on the amercian psyche. you listen to their news recently and its all wahh! wahh! wahh! ad nauseam, a bit annoying to say the least still, congrats to the liberals, the republicans have proven that leftist tools are the only cubits by which they measure...

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it all comes down to the basic question: do you consider the nepalis enough of a fukup to blunder their way through a "revolution" and emerge victorious on the other side without any victory of any sort or the understanding of it by themselves with no guiding angels, and without understan...

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polling votes?? wah, kya revolution hai absolute win win for all parties, tiktok reels are made, insta cred is boosted, state machinery and bureaucracy is left intact, old political parties are undergoing a layer of varnish to emerge as new acronyms, minimal deaths or property damage, no underlastin...

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speaking of mercs https://www.newsweek.com/mercenary-storm-gathering-opinion-2127134 With mercenaries increasingly seen as a go-to solution for some of the world's most devilish security problems, Blackwater founder and Donald Trump donor Erik Prince is reported to be pitching his private military s...

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https://www.newsweek.com/egypt-vs-saudi-arabia-subtle-dispute-reshaping-middle-east-opinion-2126443 The most transformative Middle East developments often arrive unheralded. The Cairo-Riyadh estrangement is one such shift. Whispers of a fundamental dispute have burst into public view, fracturing on...

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How Modi Govt is powering Mizoram's transformation with ₹9,000 crore worth of projects some excellent work being done, my only gripe is with the media constantly referring it to a "gift"; if after so many years of independence, availability of basic infra is considered a gift and not a ri...

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ricky_v ji, sad to say but your father's "friends" need a hard reality check. Many "retired walla groups" are heavily commie infested and more often that not, show a very strong anti Modi ji bias.[/b] all valid points chetak sir, but outrage farming on sm cares little for facts ...

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ricky_v ji, Now that the deed is done, (it matters very little how it was started or how it developed, the end result has been achieved) the shadowy backers will start to assert themselves and the dirty work at the crossroads will commence as various power factions begin to jockey for political pri...

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Having observed unfiltered comments by the Nepalese themselves, I agree that this was an indigenous protest, no china, us, rol or rop Trigger was frustration among youth of very little job opportunities, little development, and higher power shar ng between the only 4 people and parties as a sort of ...

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dont know how normal it is, my father received a whatsapp video from his retired colleagues group on the situation of floods in punjab, vid shows a woman struggling to stay afloat with water upto her neck and shes got a couple of kids hanging on awkwardly trying to not fall / drown into the water; o...

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thank you for the recommendation ramana sir, have downloaded it

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not india related, but posting here instead of the geopolitics thread for increased focus https://thediplomat.com/2025/09/america-is-watching-aukus-needs-more-than-rhetoric-from-australia/ For Australia, this sets a problematic benchmark. While Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said, “I think that...

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^i watched a little of the india - kazakhstan game, what a hapless performance by the kazakh, 15-0 the more i think on it, i believe that india can do well in team sports that have a mixture of technical skills and endurance with the majority tilting towards technical skills like cricket; otoh, game...

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https://cdn.table.media/img/asset/YXNzZXRzL3dwLWNvbnRlbnQvdXBsb2Fkcy8yMDI0LzAxLzI5MTMwNzA4L1RNX0NoaW5hX0tyYWZ0X1NpYmlyaWVuc19QaXBlbGluZV9FTi5wbmc/TM_China_Kraft_Sibiriens_Pipeline_EN.png?w=1024&fit=contain&s=e09de3fbf2a5d7ae81440fce71b45658 apologies, the map of india is wrong https://www.r...

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book review, but as done by robert kaplan, posting here, the book is the second emancipation, focusses on the slew of independence of the african nations from euro colonial / imperial rule, and its divergence from the nation states gaining independence around the same time in south / south-east asia...

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https://www.semafor.com/article/08/28/2025/ambassador-gor-trumps-hiring-chief-on-fast-track-to-india “I have known Sergio Gor for many years from his time in the US Senate, and now working with him daily in the White House. I am confident he will make an exceptional Ambassador,” Secretary of State ...

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