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https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1767432335035260.png The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country. This operation was done in conjunction wit...

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Germany is now on an overdrive courting Indian students given the US F1 and H1B issues. They are seizing this opportunity to hopefully net more Dhruv’s? https://x.com/OpIndia_com/status/2005588193887048119 Don't miss this quite an illustrative article imo. Youth is supposed to rebel against the pre...

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a bit of a meta commentary, as it were, on good literature in recent times and their paucity before moving onto the relevant post usual haunts of news aggregators, reliable publications have all gone suddenly cold in terms of publishing good literature on geopolity, most are swept in the "he sa...

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re: links between india and ethiopia in terms of regional rivalry, ethiopia is at loggerheads with egypt, but then one can say this between any 2 countries in africa, like issues between ethiopia and eritrea, just a couple of years back, there was an intense war on by the tigray tribe, majority in e...

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^^ might be pertinent to the above https://en.sputniknews.africa/20251228/1081935551.html?ysclid=mju837r8i7927792 Diplomat Abdirahman Odawa has been ordered to return to Mogadishu no later than Monday, media reported. The Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been officially notified of his recall....

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much as the beedis are angling for a beating, the best option for now would be to completely shut down all contact, close down the embassy, other attaches, recall the staff on the offensive front, stop all electricity citing unpaid dues, tamper with the transmission lines from nepal to bd as they ar...

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what are the beedis hoping to get from this demonstration? that they will not take "bullying" from the big bad in the neighborhood? that they can push back in the name of sovereignty? i begin to understand now why the pakis did as they did way back when, some societies just exist to undert...

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Also feels like to me that the ultimate conclusion of jitni abaadi utna haq, rights based on strength, is the system of proportional representation/ governance as the eu That can be the casus belli for the second?third ? Movement of independence, to change representation from a past by post to propo...

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a new president for the bjp was announced, to say it was quite unexpected would be a massive understatement, not many would have heard his name before crucially though, he is 45, which is younger than all established national level leaders on stage today, though whether or not he can replace being r...

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https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/12/a-new-tripolar-world-order-is-emerging-without-europe/ posting here for one intriguing line of thought In this context, the rather popular “multipolarity” framing appears to be ultimately mistaken, since none of the other presumed “poles” of power – such as Europe ...

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That's quite a lengthy visit by putin, I thought he has already left. Do we know what he has been upto in addition to enjoying the current beautiful delhi climate? The media focussed when he arrived, his visit to the Rashtrapati bhavan the next day, and a joint statement/ pc with the pm afterwards. ...

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https://cdn1.wionews.com/prod/wion/images/2025/20251125/image-1764058937238.jpg?rect=(90,0,3213,2410)&imwidth=800&imheight=600&format=webp&quality=medium curious about the tree, but interesting story of how it came to be https://www.cnbctv18.com/india/how-ayodhya-ancient-flag-lost-s...

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another extremely poor performance by the men's cricket team, gambhir needs to go, to lose 2 series by clean sweeps in succession and at home, there's no excuse for it, even in australia the team was soundly beaten and could only somehow manage to cling in the england series, overall this would be t...

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excellent article, would recommend reading in full, is about recivilisation, i might have gone overboard with the bolding and the underlining https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/11/the-era-of-re-civilization/ https://archive.is/S0Iu3 In 1989, Francis Fukuyama caused a stir by publishing an artic...

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https://archive.is/kgm81 And yet BRICS is not ready to take advantage of this moment. As the group has grown in size, so have its internal contradictions. This is not entirely surprising. Both Brazil and India, fearing the loss of their own influence and concerned about the group’s cohesion, had lo...

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there should be more focus on the new sort of deals being hammered out in the middle east and the players who are being onboarded, this is one area where very little conversation has happened which is a mistake, the wider middle east is more interlinked with india than many people would consider, ac...

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heres the video of hasina being sentenced to death https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DQu5Gwn26Oc watch, about 20s or so, very illustrative no surprises on what was to be meted to her, as i said, only her ritual killing can lift the curse of taint on bd's prosperity, or so the bd people posit, her crime...

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come now Kati ji 10. Hasina has openly challenged Yunus govt's mass killing charges saying that if the BD govt has any proof then it should go to the ICJ, and she is confident that all such charges would be dismissed by the ICJ. by what authority is the icj empowered enough to sit in judgment on int...

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heres one of the critter's take on the illiberal hegemony of india in south asia, basically beseeching the us to come into south asia, stake a presence here to contain china's influence primarily and to secondly safeguard freedom and democracy because smaller countries are being bullied by india's d...

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^in agreement with your point, a broader question would be what is the proposal on how to deal with 15% of india's population? and thats a big question, one cannot wish them away and considering that the ideal time to deal with them was in 1947, bemoan our founders affinity towards self deception an...

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^^ i believe that is where the other side of the equation needs to come in A_Gupta ji, the fear of the establishment, and of quietly toeing the line, either one alone is not enough

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Mamdani is a jihadi terrorist sympathizer, period. He has been voluble about that when it comes to Hamas. He has publicly embraced jihadis involved with the World Trade Center bombing of 1993. He has come out in public support of Khalistanis, who are a known proxy of the ISI jihad against India. He...

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He quoted Jawaharlal Nehru - the Marxist “founding father” of socialist India, who: Nehru destroyed India’s soul in the name of “progress.” Mamdani is promising to do the same to you.[/b] i am actually quite flattered that one of our storied leaders has been taken as an inspiration to do works over...

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^ gods i hope so here's to wishing mamdami all the best for his endeavors, a green paradise, khusboos ,wives, and homemade bombs for all, and a steady reversal to the halcyon days of 7th century the states could do with a bit of dose of freedom and democracy at home, and this internal diversion also...

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thought xitter had a new rule of disclosing the handle's origin, would take care of a lot of the above issues though i will still maintain that there are absolutely genuine users from india who are terminally online on that site and use all sorts of chicanery if only to prove their point even if you...

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x-posting from the forum feedback Was in X for sometime. The hate based on language, religion, caste is unbelievable. The hate for one person has made people so mad that they are willing to destroy the country. BRF is like a fresh air. Not going back to X at all well, that is xitter for you, a cessp...

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^classic hindu method of argument with facts and figures... What is the thought process here really? Do they think their detractors would say thank you for this 3000 word post. I have read it thrice and all the accompanying million comments and now understand the depth to hinduism. I hereby recant m...

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extending the trite repeated classification of the world's division into a varied multitude of x and y, i believe that there are only 2 types of countries that exist 1. those who trace their lineage from the roman civilisation and are practicing- systems, methods of governance, administrative setup,...

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https://modernagejournal.com/global-weimar-robert-kaplan-waste-land-review/253504/ a new book by robert kaplan is out Robert D. Kaplan’s books rarely disappoint. He combines an insightful and historical global geopolitical perspective with on-the-ground realities that shed light on current and futu...

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very good article, would urge members to read in full the world is chock-full of articles and yt analysis of modern-day nostradamus like peter zeihan fans of how china is going to fail anyday now, going on for at least 20 years at this point, or any and every cause of discomfort in china is rapidly ...

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Linked to isis and in final stages?? Now that's an interesting development, isis-k has mostly been a defunct setup, other than a couple of blasts quickly claimed in pakistan, peshawar iirc, but then that's pakistan Why should there be issues of isis-k with india except as the obvious territory claim...

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a good place to start on the chinese parliamentary system would be the below highly informative paper https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24786018/china-primer-chinas-political-system-july-1-2024.pdf https://news.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-01-at-9.44.47%E2%80%AFPM.png ...

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^ thats a good question, A_Gupta sir, here's my stab at an answer, as the chinese polity is so opaque, discussing these names is more akin to betting at the races, but it is the principle of it, the horses discussed must be viable candidates for winning, it does one no good if due to faulty reportin...

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good posts above ramana sir, i remember the last plenary, where out of the 7 names to be decided, 1 or 2 were already decided to return, including the ideologue wang hunning, and yet the strike rate for the western media was a grand total of 0 out of 5 i also remember the breathless reporting and ki...

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^^you can probably wax more eloquence, some more idioms and phrases could probably help explain more what you're trying to convey, no need to be bashful Coincidentally, this is the official mea notice, which is a big word salad of masterful inactivity and says nothing, though if one is in a poetic s...

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posting here, dont think there is a dedicated aukus thread, plus this lad tends to go into hyper sleep otherwise, and we wouldn't want that, sort of related https://archive.is/5L1k3 Parts of the agreement—including cooperation in quantum computing; artificial intelligence; cyber-, hypersonic, and un...

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https://asiatimes.com/2025/10/pasni-port-deal-would-pivot-pakistan-from-china-to-us/ Pakistan’s reported proposal to grant the United States a development and management role at Pasni port, as reported by the Financial Times, marks one of the most consequential geopolitical developments in recent y...

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everytime i read one of these types, i am reminded that such articles are becoming more commonplace now https://smallwarsjournal.com/2025/10/09/u-s-spacepower-shield-sword/ This article proposes an operational framework that integrates a shield and sword approach – layered resilience, active/passive...

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alright the transcripts posted so we are back in business https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/xi-jinpings-successor-and-future-china And there have been very few, if any, untroubled successions in the history of the [People’s Republic of China]. So if you think about Mao [Zedong] for example—Mao...

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https://archive.is/02JKL ET had then reported that ISI is eyeing to establish its presence in Cox’s Bazar, Ukhia, Teknaf, Moulvibazar, Habiganj, and Sherpur areas of Bangladesh. The visit by ISI’s top brass witnessed exploratory talks with the amenable section of Bangladesh Army on expanding ISI’s ...

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