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by Rudradev
31 May 2026 21:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 882
Views: 130367

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

Trump family could very well be making money hand-over-fist from trade via those overland routes, with Failed Marshal and Sad-buzz getting suitable cuts. It was to facilitate this type of No.2 money-making (from unregulated 'grey' markets and unmonitored trade channels) that Trump/Witkoff's WLF part...
by Rudradev
30 May 2026 13:07
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Requests to Admins - 2019
Replies: 93
Views: 146676

Re: Requests to Admins - 2019

Notepad is your friend. Just as it was in the good old days when we accessed BRF on dial-up modems 😀
by Rudradev
29 May 2026 00:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Replies: 4904
Views: 1485446

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat

In the long run, any external source of energy we depend on can become a knife to our throat. Witness what's happening with the Strait of Hormuz right now. With a pipeline this is mitigated somewhat, because (a) it's really difficult to blow up something that deep under the ocean (b) if there are mu...
by Rudradev
25 May 2026 22:39
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 13549
Views: 4902126

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

I think there is more than meets the eye going on with Marco Rubio's India visit. Most Sec of State visits are essentially top level diplomatic events by a high ranking cabinet member representing the views of the current Presidential administration, with no further agenda. However, Rubio may be lev...
by Rudradev
24 May 2026 21:37
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 13549
Views: 4902126

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

The above seems to validate Chetak ji's observation somewhat-- if Smith is a Roman Catholic, it would make sense that the Vatican has significant influence on him. The RCC has reasons to feel simultaneously triumphant (after engineering Vijay's victory in TN) and apprehensive (after noting the Hindu...
by Rudradev
24 May 2026 09:49
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 13549
Views: 4902126

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Representative Chris Smith, Republican Congressman from NJ's 4th District, has publicly demanded that Rubio must "raise concerns with India over the FCRA" as it impedes the "religious freedom" of Christian organizations. https://swarajyamag.com/world/us-lawmaker-flags-indias-prop...
by Rudradev
23 May 2026 02:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 13549
Views: 4902126

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Meanwhile— it's looking likely that a Khalistani has been appointed to the USCIRF. Dr. Kaur is an anesthesiologist specializing in human rights research and is the first Sikh appointed to USCIRF in the history of the Commission. She has conducted innovative research on displaced populations such as ...
by Rudradev
23 May 2026 02:26
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 13549
Views: 4902126

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Why are we posting from Mao a CCP shrill? The stuff he says CCP will never do is exactly what they will do . He must think we are muppets :lol: To understand how they think? The blood bag rhetoric itself is the usual condescending nonsense-- the reality is that India has consistently faced a threat...
by Rudradev
21 May 2026 19:13
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Christianity, Evangelism & its geopolitical impact
Replies: 1299
Views: 624808

Re: Christianity, Evangelism & its geopolitical impact

https://x.com/RajivMessage/status/2057269339036983501?s=20 Famine is never a tragedy to solve—it becomes a thriving market for souls. The French Jesuits and the German/Danish Lutherans were competing to harvest souls of the Tamils. In the 1720s, a famine swept the Malabar coast. The Jesuit annual l...
by Rudradev
21 May 2026 08:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 6251
Views: 2837312

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

Especially if, given a certain track record, that past performance is lied about. :mrgreen:
by Rudradev
21 May 2026 02:10
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 6251
Views: 2837312

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

It seems that when one individual alone is responsible for lowering the mean IQ of a group by several points, and singularly incapable of understanding things that others easily grasp without being spelled out, he tends to demand explanations not only on his own behalf-- but on behalf of everybody e...
by Rudradev
20 May 2026 20:27
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 6251
Views: 2837312

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

GOTUS knew about Pakistan harbouring Iranian aircraft. The Kirana Hills/Nur Khan episode one year ago revealed that the US has a deeply seeded presence in every major PAF base. No way they could not have known. Trump must have initially accepted Failed Marshal's reasoning that harbouring the planes...
by Rudradev
19 May 2026 21:54
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 6251
Views: 2837312

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

GOTUS knew about Pakistan harbouring Iranian aircraft. The Kirana Hills/Nur Khan episode one year ago revealed that the US has a deeply seeded presence in every major PAF base. No way they could not have known. Trump must have initially accepted Failed Marshal's reasoning that harbouring the planes ...
by Rudradev
14 May 2026 23:29
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 13224
Views: 3982352

Re: Understanding the US - Again



They’re confronting anti-Indian bigotry at Texas city council meetings | Neha Suratran & Saahas Kaul
Hindu American Foundation
by Rudradev
14 May 2026 01:46
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 882
Views: 130367

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

On what basis is he predicting that NRI deposits will fly out?! Good question. Did NRI deposits move out at the 'first sign of trouble' during COVID? It's one thing for NRI (or any) deposits and investments to leave a country because of warning signs specific to that country's economy. In that case...
by Rudradev
14 May 2026 00:13
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 13224
Views: 3982352

Re: Understanding the US - Again

If Obama's visits to ME and Europe in 2009 were an apology tour, Trump's visit to Beijing is an outright supplication tour. What will Beijing demand (and probably get)? 1) An end to Quad and USN FONOPS in the South China Sea. Recognition that China's "nine-dash-line" in fact encompasses so...
by Rudradev
12 May 2026 10:06
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 6251
Views: 2837312

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

The recent tests of revamped Agni V and its hypersonic MIRVs weren't a matter of random scheduling. When GOI says "Operation Sindoor has not ended", it's a reminder that the new ROE established during Op Sindoor remain in effect. If anything untoward happens in India, the Pakis know what w...
by Rudradev
11 May 2026 21:05
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 882
Views: 130367

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

https://archive.ph/3UIBI Robert Kagan in the Atlantic says, unambiguously, that the US has "lost" the Iran war. Why does this matter? Robert Kagan is the supreme intellectual preceptor of the Neocon movement in the US. He is so shameless about it that he still defends the 2003 Iraq war (wh...
by Rudradev
07 May 2026 00:18
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 882
Views: 130367

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

'of Pakistan and other Countries' = China. He can't say China, or even the most obtuse MAGA voters will grasp the depth of his cowardly betrayal. Meanwhile the Failed Marshal probably pays him a million $ in bitcoin every time he glazes Pakistan in a Truth Social post, so there's an incentive as well.
by Rudradev
06 May 2026 23:39
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Elections Modi 3.0
Replies: 1044
Views: 231910

Re: Elections Modi 3.0

Of course TVK is a BIF/external forces plant like Kejriwal. Maybe even more so. - Comes out of nowhere - Dominates what has been a two-way contest between established parties for a very long time - Leadership has no track record in governance, but is associated with traditional media (film) and tail...
by Rudradev
05 May 2026 10:45
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy
Replies: 882
Views: 130367

Re: West Asia Crisis — Discussion, Developments, and Bharat’s Strategy

If the US really wants to strike these deeply buried facilities to intended effect, it will have to revive something like the 2003 RNEP programme.
by Rudradev
05 May 2026 08:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Elections Modi 3.0
Replies: 1044
Views: 231910

Re: Elections Modi 3.0

No need to feel despondent about TN or Kerala. Everything takes time. For how long was UP under the boot of either the Samajwadis or BSP? How many times did Bengal have to be attempted before Hindutva finally won out? The time to do proper ghar waapsi of Dakshina Bharata will come. The East (WB espe...
by Rudradev
05 May 2026 08:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 13224
Views: 3982352

Re: Understanding the US - Again

… One also wonders how much the "Five Eyes" REALLY ever shared with each other. Was there permanent transparency and total trust between these intelligence agencies? Clearly not-- because each of the Five Eyes countries still maintains an independent national security and intelligence app...
by Rudradev
04 May 2026 20:33
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Evolution of Indian Strategic Thought-1
Replies: 695
Views: 528300

Re: Evolution of Indian Strategic Thought-1

While I don't doubt the usefulness of search-engine AI to summarize relatively hard data from an open system, the above (quoted AI summary) clearly shows its limitations when it comes to marshaling "soft" concepts like "shared values", "deep bonds" etc. And that too, in...
by Rudradev
03 May 2026 21:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 13224
Views: 3982352

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Again, the contention was never that Trump hasn't changed anything about the terms of intelligence relationships with American allies-- including the Five Eyes-- during his tenure. The contention was that the Five Eyes would be especially and irreparably damaged by whatever Trump has changed, ostens...
by Rudradev
03 May 2026 03:50
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 13224
Views: 3982352

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Also, for the purposes of my argument it matters little whether Obama's 2009 tour of KSA, Egypt, Germany and France is called an "apology tour" or something else. What is undeniable is that he undertook the mission in person (indicating that he thought it was important) and took pains to d...
by Rudradev
03 May 2026 03:38
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 13224
Views: 3982352

Re: Understanding the US - Again

The Washington Times is Republican Friendly. This from November 20, 2025. Five Eyes Become Three Blind Mice The Five Eyes national security alliance of the U.S., U.K., Canada, New Zealand, and Australia had been intimate and formidable for decades. Now the erratic policies of the Trump administrati...
by Rudradev
02 May 2026 11:57
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Replies: 6511
Views: 2797118

Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

Maybe there are people who think it useful to "explain" to pigeons why it's good to use a bathroom. I'm not one of them. Hmm. Your shtick is that American/UK Hindus are not united and you know how to do that if only all those illiterates start listening to your high falutin theories. Firs...
by Rudradev
02 May 2026 09:12
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 13224
Views: 3982352

Re: Understanding the US - Again

> Thus when George W Bush was replaced by Obama, most of the world quickly 'forgave' the excesses of the Iraq war. I dont think there was any significant diplomatic fallout from the Iraq War for the US. Obama certainly believed there was. He personally undertook a high-profile mission of diplomatic...
by Rudradev
01 May 2026 21:15
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 13224
Views: 3982352

Re: Understanding the US - Again

There was no need for the amrikis to do all this. A global blowback is surely building, one that will bite the amrikis hard in the butt Chetak ji, I agree there was no reason for the US to inflict as much reputational damage on itself as it has recently. Unfortunately/fortunately for them, they rem...
by Rudradev
30 Apr 2026 07:46
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 6251
Views: 2837312

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

^Does the MS copilot answer take into account that there could be interventions by other non-US actors (PRC, KSA) helping to prop up the PKR? The way it's written it seems like analysis of a strictly two way choice, either (Pak economy was already improving from faithfully implementing "good&qu...
by Rudradev
30 Apr 2026 02:16
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Replies: 6511
Views: 2797118

Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

Maybe there are people who think it useful to "explain" to pigeons why it's good to use a bathroom. I'm not one of them.
by Rudradev
30 Apr 2026 00:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Replies: 6511
Views: 2797118

Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

To be clear, your first four words:
Vayutuvan wrote: 29 Apr 2026 08:33 ^ I have no idea
Are eternally true. Yet your puerile commentary continues spilling across multiple threads like pigeon droppings. Lage raho. :rotfl:
by Rudradev
29 Apr 2026 10:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Replies: 6511
Views: 2797118

Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

Some sentences can serve no purpose to read in their entirety, but still confess an eternal truth in their first four words.
by Rudradev
29 Apr 2026 07:54
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Replies: 6511
Views: 2797118

Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

^ I wonder if the police also resist recording *as a religious hate crime* incidents where Hindus are targeted (for their religion) by Muslims or Khalistanis. One clear end goal of the Leicester pogrom-- other than terrorizing Hindus with impunity-- was the local Muslims setting up a permission stru...
by Rudradev
27 Apr 2026 21:01
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Elections Modi 3.0
Replies: 1044
Views: 231910

Re: Elections Modi 3.0

Ram Madhav seems to be a sincere fellow, but he often wanders into domains (e.g. trying to present a favourable impression of Hindutva in public settings overseas) where he is clearly out of his depth. One time, he was tricked into appearing on a TV programme run by the poisonous Islamic weasel, Meh...
by Rudradev
27 Apr 2026 09:28
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 13224
Views: 3982352

Re: Understanding the US - Again

... Since the shooter is described by his fellow students from when he was at Caltech at near-genius level of intelligence (and that is a very high bar at Caltech), one wonders, if POTUS was his target, how he planned to achieve his objective. https://www.oldest.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Schoo...
by Rudradev
27 Apr 2026 09:05
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 13224
Views: 3982352

Re: Understanding the US - Again

... It is a common trait of Pakistaniyat to stage "attempted attacks/assassinations" and play the (intended) martyr, farming sympathy . ... That's actually the part I was alluding to, Rudradev ji This is the very basic ABCD that every politician is adept at. All of them happily grab any o...
by Rudradev
26 Apr 2026 20:39
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 13224
Views: 3982352

Re: Understanding the US - Again

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/25/politics/trump-rushed-white-house-correspondents-dinner Just in: Shots fired at White House Correspondents' Dinner event. Chump, Vance, & other cabinet members unharmed and were evacuated. This is getting as predictable as Mamata didi's 'accidents' before election...