Bharat Rakshak

KL Dubey

I think Bharat should not continue any further trade talks no matter what new outlandish tariffs are proclaimed, and should move on. The US delegation cancelled their visit to India. They are going to go all out on India. India should not budge. As I understand, Bharat sarkar was not responding to ...

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Very interesting point he makes is that the Trump-Putin meeting was confirmed when Steve Witkoff visited Moscow. He imposed secondary sanctions on India knowing fully well he can back off from them claiming progress (whether there is or not) after yesterday's meeting with Putin. According to the pr...

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My bet: EU will NOT impose sanctions or tariffs on India. ..... I agree broadly with this prediction. However, I would like to see how the EU CBAMs will be handled in a mutually acceptable manner for exports of energy-intensive products from Bharat. The latest I could find on the India-EU FTA talks...

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Putin was cheerful while Trump was subdued and looked like going through the motions. Thats perhaps because he literally is. He has worn diapers since the 1990s due to fecal incontinence. However, his doctor certified him as supremely fit. Obamudu: https://youtube.com/shorts/Y5EoI09wTVw?si=hS26xhAY...

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^^"williams" - powerful post, panthah

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British rule over India was not possible without quite a few Indians hailing colonial rule as good for India. Asha Motwani belongs to that breed. If India has $500 billion to invest, it should be invested in India. If India is competitive because of low labor cost, it is less competitive because if...

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No one should ignore things like NATO till around 2004, the European Union which is a coalition of diverse nations with a long history of mutual wars, and so on. Durable partnerships and alliances are possible. Yes, they don’t last forever (so what, the world is sansaar, ever changing), and they re...

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This seems to be a replay of the same drama from a few months ago. White House is considering inviting Zelenskyy to Alaska https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/white-house-considering-inviting-zelenskyy-alaska-rcna224070 Zelensky Reacts to Trump-Putin Alaska Meeting: 'We Will Not Re...

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One data point the G7 hold 26% of World GDP as per PPP and the BRICS nations hold 40% per PPP. Global South holds the rest 1/3 of world GDP. Many have called for trade without the US. In the tariff war currently ongoing, the "G7" cannot be considered a bloc since USA (15% GDP) is busy tar...

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What can India do. Canada has slapped tariff on all US imports. India can do the same. Tax data centers of US companies. Diversify trade into global south. Stop any oil buying from the US. Actually India can become global refinery for Russian oil, everyone buys final products like petrol, diesel, a...

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India needs to plan for 100% tariffs from America. Suitably discounted Russian oil and a build up India registered oil tankers are key. How quickly can Bharat make 100 oil tankers ? Such long-term actions involve a lot of planning, strategy, and expenditure - the response has to be calibrated and f...

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Trump's 25% tariffs wen't into effect yesterday. It seems that US companies could place orders till yesterday and recieve shipments till September. So this drama will continue at least till September when the real impact will be felt. We can simply subsidize those industries that is affected by thi...

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Indigo does not have a single Boeing on order so that's wrong. Before going scorched earth, we first need to let Trump JR know he is about to permanently lose access to one of the largest real estate markets. He is buddies with many of our MPs so getting the message across will be easy. I suspect i...

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Good article summarizing the situation:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/india-i ... ybook.html

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No Indian government will ever buy an American jet fighter again. What do you mean by "again" ? :mrgreen: Bharat never purchased an American fighter to my knowledge. We did get one for free for a while in Trivandrum and learned quite a bit about it. Heck, i saw it ma'self, yessiree bob.

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In the same vein, Trump has asked Taiwan to invest $450B in the US if it wants a 15% tariff rate. At this point this is just an extortion racket that countries shouldn’t pay. Given that USA is now only 15% (PPP) of the world economy, there is no reason for other large countries/blocs to entertain t...

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We must issue a statement that what we say in Public is what we say in Private and its better U.S president heed our words. Also the information that is coming from the U.S President about Tariffs are wrong and he need better advisers who provide correct data and information. Not a bad idea at all....

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In almost every country where the leader has substantively rebutted Trump's threats, the entire country has united behind that leader. Modi is no greenhorn and knows what to do.

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What power/influence can India bring to the table in this fight? Its a genuine question, not a rhetorical one. I dont think we have any cards. The slightest action against NRIs and H1Bs will cause them to vocally protest against GoI and this will be amplified by our own politicians to bring the cur...

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There is caste for minorities (I'm Christian) as we were all Hindu earlier and retain that caste identity. The difference, as Rakesh suggested, is that the M***** identity transcends their caste. Glad to know that you retain your jati identity. This is essential for Bharat to survive and flourish. ...

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^^Fundamentally, the West wants beneficial transactions packaged as "partnership" but at the same time try to chip away at the foundations of Bharat. The latter activity may be motivated both by "ideology" and also to ensure transactions that are more favorable to the west. The m...

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To balance China, it would be good strategy for the US to compete with China for influence in Pakistan. Leaving Pakistan completely in the China camp is likely a bad strategic choice. Presumably there is a good way of achieving this strategic objective and many bad ways. It does seem Trump & co...

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A_Gupta wrote: ↑03 Aug 2025 19:07 > fossil-fired power generation fell 4 percent in the first half relative to last year.

I assume here that major manufacturing does not have captive power plants.

I don't think we can know until we dig into the PMI numbers. Captive power is a huge segment in Bharat.

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Good balanced article highlighting all aspects of Bharat's power sector transition: The US is slipping behind India’s clean power boom https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2025/07/30/2003841141 Excerpt: For many years, India had a skeptical take on the energy transition, arguing sinc...

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Kanadda making progress in repairing ties with Bharat:

https://www.wionews.com/world/canada-ap ... 4045000673

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AmberG and Vauytuvan, I suggest not getting triggered by each others posts. Stop replying to each other. It's getting tiring to see two PhDs on an ego fight. Ramana My Rs 200/- ...the above advice is ineffective. E.g., I have entirely blocked this poster and stopped replying to him 1 year ago, but ...

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I'm not stupid enough to be on X/Twitter. You assert the BLS got the numbers wrong - I'm supposed to believe your assertion? When you didn't even read the document from which you posted that Leonard Benardo email which, as you can verify for yourself, is called Russian disinformation by the author ...

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A_Gupta wrote: ↑02 Aug 2025 05:56 The mark-ups in retail are huge. As a Bangladeshi garment exporter said, he sells for $5 in wholesale what retails at $35 in the US.

Clearly, the complaint that "USA is being exploited by other countries" can only come from a very feeble mind.

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Right now the Demented Monkey's behavior reminds me of the Telugu Saying: Asale Koti, tappa tagindi, nippu thokkindi. (It is a monkey, dead drunk and stepped on burning coal) Any day I would have preferred the Cackling Goose. Similar sanskrit saying: "markaTasya surApAnam madhye vrshchika-dams...

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Pradeep Singh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW-jlXXYgi8 Gets to the heart of the matter in 20 minutes. Modi is a class apart - but a very inferior individual on the other side of the world is trying to match him and is coming out looking like a very poor quality (even worse than chinese quality) ...

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You don’t see hydrogen cars or power plants because that’s not the real game (at least not in India). The focus is on hard-to-decarbonize sectors like steel, fertilizers, shipping, and heavy transport — areas where EVs just don’t cut it. This was useful. So green hydrogen is planned to be used to s...

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It seems a major contention over the the Priya Vihar shiva temple. This was built by Suryavarman, upon recommendation by a brahman named Divakara Bhatta hailing from western UP. The entire area - the Cambodian Priya Vihar province and the two Thai provinces of Shri Saket and Utpal Rajadhani - appear...

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I am curious as to how the SMRs will work in practice. Even though they are scaled down reactors, they still are around 100 MW. So in that sense there would still be the same core design of the bigger reactors. They won’t be like a nuclear battery or black box where the radioactive portion can be s...

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A key aspect of these developments is the low cost of manufacturing in Bharat, whether nukular energy industry or renewable energy industry. Old, but instructive, article: https://www.eco-business.com/news/india-builds-cheapest-nuclear-reactors-in-the-world/ Now is the time for Bharat to take the le...

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Sure, it’s not mass-deployed yet — but calling it “still in research phase” is kinda lazy at this point. Even the US Department of Energy — not exactly known for hype — says: Thermochemical water splitting processes have been successfully demonstrated in laboratory and pilot-scale facilities . That...

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Interesting news from bharat sarkar: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-developing-three-types-of-small-modular-reactors-jitendra-singh/articleshow/122882334.cms Bharat is developing three types of SMRs. These are indigenous "Bharat Small Reactors" of various types...separate ...

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Slightly dated, but good summary and graph:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarwantsin ... t-economy/

The article is a summary of findings from a report (linked inside) on the future of indian economy.

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- reduce the number of people working in agriculture This kind of a policy under congress regime meant disaster for people who were living tilling their own land. Eventually purged them from their own land and made them laborer's who slept under footpaths in cities. That's not what I meant. "R...

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^^"Jay", I agree with you. AOC's family was very much "working class" and struggled to stay in the "lower middle class". I do not know why people are trying to prove otherwise. That said, this stupid Rep-Dem binary cretinism has poisoned these threads and BRF significan...

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Bharat hits target of 50% non-fossil power capacity, 5 years early.... https://carboncopy.info/india-hits-50-clean-power-capacity-but-generation-still-lags/ The next frontier is to translate this capacity into generation....the sarkar has embarked on new missions for offtake of non-fossil electricit...

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