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by vikramb
14 Feb 2023 12:29
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Aero India 2023
Replies: 155
Views: 35330

Re: Aero India 2023

I went yesterday to Aero India 2023 in Bangalore. The aircraft line up was really impressive! People were lining up to get into the cockpit of the Gripen. Indigenous items were highlighted especially the iDEX initiative.

by vikramb
01 Jan 2022 19:37
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8810
Views: 2492235

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Came across this article that was written soon after the end of the cold war during the "unipolar moment" and wanted to share. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-05-04-1991124019-story.html In Search of a Credible Threat By SEEMA SIROHI Baltimore Sun • May 04, 1991 WASHINGTON — ...
by vikramb
19 Jul 2021 21:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8810
Views: 2492235

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Aditi Phadnis confirms that EAM Jaishankar's trip to the US in May did not go too well. Not only was he not received properly but also subject to lectures on minority rights. Democrats fully intend to utilise the human rights agenda as a stick to create negative leverage. I expect non stop hitjobs a...
by vikramb
10 Jul 2021 14:57
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8810
Views: 2492235

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

In an article written by Rep. Mark Green, it has been argued that if India goes ahead with procuring the S-400, then not only will the US cease intelligence cooperation with India but also scrap the defence partnership. The author's minimum non-negotiable requirement is cessation of ALL defence purc...
by vikramb
06 Jul 2021 17:28
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Quad News and Discussion- June 2021
Replies: 377
Views: 99412

Re: Quad News and Discussion- June 2021

A somewhat skeptical take on the quad. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/can-quad-transform-alliance-contain-china-180786 Can the Quad Transform Into an Alliance to Contain China? Whither the “Quad”? Is the Quad, or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue—a loose grouping of likeminded Indo-Pacific natio...
by vikramb
26 Jun 2021 09:07
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8810
Views: 2492235

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

It's ridiculous for the US government to offer David Headley a plea deal with the condition that he cannot be extradited to India, when his crime took place in India and most of his victims are Indians. I wonder whether our Government protested this at that time.
by vikramb
21 Jun 2021 18:04
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2838511

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Between 4pm - 5pm today, i.e. 21-06-2021, the total number of doses administered was a whopping 19,50,428 doses taking the daily vaccination figure to 69,25,995 doses. So India is definitely going to set a record today.
by vikramb
20 Jun 2021 09:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8810
Views: 2492235

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

I am sharing below an article written by an analyst from The Hudson Institute, where our EAM had earlier this month held an interaction with Gen McMaster. The article is being shared in full as some readers may not be able to read it behind the paywall. The gist of it seems to be if India refuses to...
by vikramb
13 Jun 2021 00:06
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8810
Views: 2492235

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

The American establishment seems to be conflicted between two contradictory goals. While their hostility to the BJP was always thinly disguised, there is an unprecedented urgency to topple the Modi government especially after the revocation of Article 370, Ram Janmabhoomi case and CAA. The COVID sec...
by vikramb
12 Jun 2021 10:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8810
Views: 2492235

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

If we go by the writings of the American academia and media, then we can observe an unremitting hostility to India and Hinduism in particular that was there much before independence. The narrative about India was negative even during the time of PM Nehru, an Anglophile liberal. My view is that the I...
by vikramb
27 Apr 2021 22:07
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Five State Elections
Replies: 1447
Views: 318975

Re: 2021 Five State Elections

However, even after NRC and self-deportation the demographic problem will persist in WB and AS like in Kerala. Thank you for the detailed response. I hope the NPR can be successfully completed as last year census workers were even attacked in some parts of India on the misperception that they are c...
by vikramb
27 Apr 2021 21:20
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Five State Elections
Replies: 1447
Views: 318975

Re: 2021 Five State Elections

Supratik wrote: According to my estimates ghost citizens figure may be quite high. Only way to prove or disprove is NPR and NRC.
What is meant by ghost citizens? People who exist in records but not in real?

Also can Assam and West Bengal be kept Hindu majority without mass deportations?