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- 09 Jan 2026 20:58
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 12079
- Views: 3495570
Re: Understanding the US - Again
So if the cowards in Congress actually pass the Sanctions bill on countries that "knowingly engage in the exchange of Russian-origin uranium and petroleum products"... will China also face 500% tariffs? It is much harder to carve out exemptions from a legally-mandated sanctions regime than...
- 09 Jan 2026 11:12
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2439
Re: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
4 hours ago: US Navy seizes Russian tanker carrying VE oil as it departs Venezuela. Prior to this, at least 16 ships carrying oil have successfully run the US blockade as of Maduro's abduction. More details. The vessel, Bella 1, was previously running unflagged and was on a US watch list for dark f...
- 09 Jan 2026 11:08
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2439
Re: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
Now that my curiosity has been triggered, here is what I found out. Search on Google with AI mode turned on: is juvenal related to juvenile? AI answer (I quote below) Yes, the name "Juvenal" and the word "juvenile" are directly related through their shared Latin origin. Both ter...
- 09 Jan 2026 10:48
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2439
Re: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
I suspect I am not alone in this view. That is an important piece of information on your process of judging others. So you judge people based on the judgment of your ingroup. It is dangerous in some, or even most, situations where you are negotiating with another outside your group. No, I regard pe...
- 08 Jan 2026 12:27
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2439
Re: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
Unconfirmed OSINT, but it seems an army general is being scapegoated by Delcy Rodrigues for "betraying" Maduro: Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez has ordered the arrest of Major General Javier Marcano Tábata, essentially charging him with treason as the principal person responsib...
- 08 Jan 2026 10:41
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2439
Re: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
I have faith that some day, even the most earnestly pompous among us will have figured out the difference between a noun and an adjective. For example: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/juvenilia juvenilia plural noun ˌjü-və-ˈni-lē-ə 1 : compositions produced in the artist's or author's you...
- 08 Jan 2026 09:21
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 12079
- Views: 3495570
Re: Understanding the US - Again
"Noel"? Do you mean Noem?
- 08 Jan 2026 08:08
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 12079
- Views: 3495570
Re: Understanding the US - Again
Christian mother of 2, American, was SHOT TWICE in the head by ICE agent for non-compliance. https://x.com/Jvnior/status/2009000802531348845 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-F7az1XAAA-YH5?format=jpg&name=large Wah. So the whole "Maduro" stage-show, a transparently desperate bid to distra...
- 08 Jan 2026 07:47
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2439
Re: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
How can a ship run a blockade? Am I wrong in assuming that USN boats are faster than tankers? Satellites can easily monitor tanker movements. USN would have plenty of time to position its assets to blockade any ship leaving Venezuela. (Added later: answered by lord @rudradev sir :wink: ) No, you wo...
- 08 Jan 2026 02:33
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2439
Re: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
I would request you to repost that in legible text, but I'm not convinced that your doing so would make it worth reading.
- 08 Jan 2026 00:26
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2439
Re: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
4 hours ago: US Navy seizes Russian tanker carrying VE oil as it departs Venezuela. Prior to this, at least 16 ships carrying oil have successfully run the US blockade as of Maduro's abduction. More details. The vessel, Bella 1, was previously running unflagged and was on a US watch list for dark fl...
- 07 Jan 2026 23:38
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2439
Re: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
During Delcy Rodrigues' swearing-in ceremony, she openly embraced the Russian, Chinese, and Iranian ambassadors to VE. This comes after a Chump administration tweet demanding that VE must sever all economic and diplomatic ties with Russia, China, Iran, & Cuba while selling oil exclusively to the...
- 07 Jan 2026 20:44
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2439
Re: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
I do not think this will devolve into a military conflict between venezuelan's and US armed forces. Venezuela does not have the morale to take up this fight. US will sprinkle dollars, jobs, and influence to buy up the opposition and place a new head and will rule the nation by proxy. That was the p...
- 07 Jan 2026 09:31
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 12886
- Views: 4440943
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Modi came to see him where?
- 07 Jan 2026 03:13
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2439
Re: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
Thought experiment: if you were in charge of Venezuela's armed forces, how would you increase the cost to a foreign occupier (with massive conventional military superiority) of exploiting your oil resources?
- 07 Jan 2026 03:04
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2439
Re: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBxbunwataFq3f6CX8g-hK5AiVFdXOxd3FtwrHUuyhLdYNOmOngoGxv0UubN7VAC-KFmO5UYgoxuQvxWqLg2u6wKzf3RF0PyjtfqlX-YVMHmcCti0EW3oOridhXoY0tpJlxySxrkBJfvPe/s1600/Venezuela+Army+Bases.JPG Army Orbat Map https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a...
- 07 Jan 2026 02:52
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2439
Re: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
The utility aircraft include 8 X Shaanxi Y-8. There are also 23 X Hongdu JL-8 jet trainers. But no frontline combat aircraft, vessels, or vehicles from China. Not sure about ADS.
- 07 Jan 2026 01:24
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2439
Monitoring Military Developments in Venezuela Post Maduro Abduction
Venezuelan Military overview Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana - FANB Operational strategic commander of all of Venezuela’s armed forces: Domingo Antonio Hernández Lárez. ARMY Army Chief: Maj. Gen. Johan Alexander Hernández Lárez (brother of Domingo Antonio the OSC) 63,000 personnel 92 X T-72B1 ta...
- 06 Jan 2026 07:35
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-Canada, Mexico and South America: News and Discussion
- Replies: 1158
- Views: 410983
Re: India-Canada, Mexico and South America: News and Discussion
OSINT indicates civil-war like conditions in Caracas. VE air force F16s and Su30s have been overflying the capital. There are firefights in the streets between what seem to be infantry squads engaging each other. BMP-3s have been spotted. Some faction has set up a strongpoint near Miraflores palace ...
- 06 Jan 2026 01:12
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 12079
- Views: 3495570
Re: Understanding the US - Again
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTypwReR4cJWb5SWmC7mlD26HtFlIImPwZHxw&s Look at this guy. Posing all chummy with the "DEA" soldiers who arrested him. All smiles and giving a thumbs-up. Apparently he was very relaxed, jovial and wished all the staff at the processi...
- 04 Jan 2026 10:57
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 12079
- Views: 3495570
Re: Understanding the US - Again
It's really amusing to watch the assumptions being recited in post after post. US will undercut Russian oil with VE oil, US will have a gun to China's head with the supply of VE oil. It's as if, by kidnapping Maduro, the US magically gained control over VE oil in its entirety. Even the Americans who...
- 04 Jan 2026 08:10
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 12886
- Views: 4440943
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
I can understand Pakistani beating white Americans. With all three wives working at the cash till. But philipinos? All the Phillipino American immigrants I've met have been extremely hard working folks. The 1st-generation ones span several rungs on the economic class ladder, from bus drivers & ...
- 04 Jan 2026 03:18
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 12079
- Views: 3495570
Re: Understanding the US - Again
If you compare the US empire to the Mughal empire, there's no doubt the guy in charge now is Orange-zeb.
- 02 Jan 2026 12:07
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 12886
- Views: 4440943
- 02 Jan 2026 12:01
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 12886
- Views: 4440943
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Nine US lawmakers (plus Zohran Mamdani) have added their voices to anti-India propaganda with unsolicited bloviations on the Umar Khalid case. Khalid is a terror-sympathizing jihadi Muslim who openly advocated for India's breakup and for the secession of Kashmir from India (yes, the same character w...
- 02 Jan 2026 02:30
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 12886
- Views: 4440943
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
One thing I don't understand. Anyone with above-room temperature IQ who meets Rahul Gandhi realizes instantly that he is an idiot. This holds true for all international actors who harbour an agenda against India, Modi etc. The only question to remain in their minds is: is he a useful idiot? Can I ma...
- 01 Jan 2026 22:47
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Happy New Year!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3364
Re: Happy New Year!
Happy Gregorian Increment!
- 27 Dec 2025 23:50
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Bangladesh News and Discussion
- Replies: 4172
- Views: 1452017
Re: Bangladesh News and Discussion
https://www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/unheard-voices/news/how-many-more-deaths-mob-violence-stopped-4066746 Extremely important reference from A Gupta here. You have all heard of the NGO Equality Labs, which tries to frame Hindus in the US (and defame Hindus in general) with allegations of "...
- 24 Dec 2025 23:36
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 12079
- Views: 3495570
Re: Understanding the US - Again
New York Times has published yet another hit piece against Hindus and the RSS, this time from a creature called Felix Pal who is a chela of the Marxist career liar Christophe Jaffrelot. Here is Salvatore Babones' systematic breakdown and rebuttal of the hit piece. vhMLikrB09E Please do the right thi...
- 23 Dec 2025 23:36
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
- Replies: 5910
- Views: 2584555
Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/21/trumps-surprising-policy-turn-pakistan/ Anyone remember Gen Marc Kimmit from the 2000s afghan war days ? These days he seems to be pimping for the porkies . He wrote this very tangential article to give porkies some gora soundbites in the low ring Wa...
- 20 Dec 2025 05:37
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Bangladesh News and Discussion
- Replies: 4172
- Views: 1452017
Re: Bangladesh News and Discussion
I see this being settled much as Egypt was after the Arab Spring. For awhile, a Muslim Brotherhood swine known as Mohammed Morsi manage to seize power through heavily compromised (i.e. mob-violence contaminated) "elections"... with the US State Dept's blessing. Ultimately he was ousted by ...
- 19 Dec 2025 04:19
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Bangladesh News and Discussion
- Replies: 4172
- Views: 1452017
Re: Bangladesh News and Discussion
Chetak ji, The 10 million refugees who came in 1971 were fleeing a legitimate genocide. They were overwhelmingly Hindu, because the genocide was specifically targeted at Hindus in the then-East Pakistan. Most of these went back after the creation of Bangladesh. In fact, those who did not want to lea...
- 17 Dec 2025 10:06
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-Australia News and Discussion
- Replies: 2393
- Views: 745153
Re: India-Australia News and Discussion
Perpetual victims get 'embarrassed'. Effective fighters seek opportunity. For example: "the Sydney gunman turned out to be a Muslim of Indian origin. Obviously, once they leave India, Indian Muslims are as capable of becoming violently radicalized by jihadi recruitment organizations as Muslim i...
- 17 Dec 2025 03:31
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 12886
- Views: 4440943
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Where exactly was this gas passed? Surely not Truth Social.
- 16 Dec 2025 01:04
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-Australia News and Discussion
- Replies: 2393
- Views: 745153
Re: India-Australia News and Discussion
Here's a nice way to handle this on Social Media Normal Person: "Why is it always Muslims who engage in terrorism?" Muslim Apologist (predictably) : "You're an Islamophobe! The Quran condemns violence! Any act of terror is Un-Islamic behavior!" Normal Person: "OK. Why is it ...
- 14 Dec 2025 22:08
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 12886
- Views: 4440943
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
@Rudradev a few words for skeptics on why this is any different from India’s handshake with the Afghan Taliban would be welcome, if I have permission to quote. A few differences at least are glaringly obvious, maybe there are more: 1) Afghanistan is India's direct and immediate neighbour (since we ...
- 13 Dec 2025 10:33
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 12886
- Views: 4440943
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Must-Read article. The ONLY difference between Obama/Clinton's nurturing of the Muslim Brotherhood during the Arab Spring, and the Trump Administration's activities in Bangladesh today, was that at least the Arab Spring was not in India's immediate backyard. I pity the fools who thought that defundi...
- 13 Dec 2025 00:58
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-Russia: News & Analysis
- Replies: 6125
- Views: 1692639
Re: India-Russia: News & Analysis
Chetak ji, it is perfectly appropriate that Modiji should set the table of state as per dietary stipulations from his own cultural framework. After all, at a state banquet in Gulf countries, the menu will of course feature no alcohol, no pork, and only Halal meat. But that's not what I asked. Is Put...
- 12 Dec 2025 21:38
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-Russia: News & Analysis
- Replies: 6125
- Views: 1692639
Re: India-Russia: News & Analysis
Is Putin vegetarian??
- 12 Dec 2025 09:07
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 12886
- Views: 4440943
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Meanwhile - Despite Trump's threats, the Indiana State Senate has REJECTED the Trump-backed 9-0 gerrymandered map, leaving the existing 7-2 map in place. This is because gerrymandering is a two-way street. Say for example you have a total of 15 districts in which 4 are strongly leaning democrat and...