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- 17 Sep 2025 05:34
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 11093
- Views: 3223274
- 17 Sep 2025 05:26
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
- 13 Sep 2025 08:50
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 11093
- Views: 3223274
Re: Understanding the US - Again
The statement by the Utah governor was delayed so Kash Patel could get his photo op there. Kash Patel has said NOTHING about the Indian motel owner in Dallas, TX beheaded by an illegal alien from Cuba. In this action/inaction, Kash Patel is demonstrating the same incompetence as other Trump cabinet ...
- 06 Sep 2025 03:52
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 11093
- Views: 3223274
Re: Understanding the US - Again
^^^If acetaminophen in children was linked to autism, we would see it the world over.
- 06 Sep 2025 02:21
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
^^^A law will have to be passed to do that.
- 04 Sep 2025 10:32
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 11093
- Views: 3223274
Re: Understanding the US - Again
When asked by a Polish reporter what he was doing to end the Ukraine war, Trump said that he had applied sanctions to India and that was just phase 1, phase 2 and phase 3 to follow. Was not that action, and should not the Polish reporter take up some other profession? Wondering what further squeeze...
- 01 Sep 2025 10:32
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5215
- Views: 1194468
Re: Deterrence
The 100MT H-bomb is purely political. It serves no strategic use but to invoke fear into the enemy populace, which is why the USSR did Tsar Bomba as accuracy and reliability of nuclear weapons was low. The point is, all of the previous treaties India has signed such as the 1963 Partial (Above Ground...
- 01 Sep 2025 09:28
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
^^^He's become Peter Retardo.
- 01 Sep 2025 08:51
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Who said this was for fun? Data and deterrence are needed. IOR is a big area. TSAR bomba concept needs to be re-visited with 100MT. The picture is going to get really clear when Gor goes in for Senate confirmation. Relations are set to go into the toilet once the Sooth-Asian envoy is confirmed. Ser...
- 01 Sep 2025 02:48
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
The tariffs are just the first salvo to stunt India's growth economically & strategically. What people here need to realize is that this policy will continue and expand regardless of who is POTUS or party affiliation. By the end of this calendar year, Trump will impose 150% tariffs on Indian pha...
- 01 Sep 2025 01:43
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
From Navroop Singh: America’s Dirty Playbook: Sabotaging India’s Rise India’s ascent as a technological and strategic power has never been welcomed in Washington. Every time New Delhi has taken a bold step whether in space, nuclear science, or trade the United States has found ways to sabotage, sanc...
- 01 Sep 2025 01:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Few comments: - Physics fact: Neutrons don’t care about Truth Social Tweets - They’ll leak out of the device and into your economy just the same.. and testing H-bombs for fun is like burning your house just to check if the fire alarm works. Seriously if sanctions were really free passes for testing...
- 31 Aug 2025 22:09
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
the last time we got hit with so many sanctions was around the operation shakti, but atleast we were getting something out of it, with the recent spinelessness of the euros on display, it is likely that we will be hit with sanctions from their side as well, and all for following global material phy...
- 31 Aug 2025 21:35
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
https://x.com/KanwalSibal/status/1961760716412932112?s=19 Kanwal Sibal on X Gossip is often the source of news. Why would Trump reach out to Modi “several times”? Has he reached out to any leader several times, especially after his calls were not accepted? He has no ego, is it? He was willing to ac...
- 31 Aug 2025 07:30
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 11093
- Views: 3223274
Re: Understanding the US - Again
The 1974 Trade Act allows the president to assign tariffs based on national security and financial injury to US labor. At worst this will force the Trump admin to re-issue the tariffs based on Sections 301 and others to get what they want. It may not make sense, but none of this makes sense to begin...
- 27 Aug 2025 11:30
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Top Secret Exclusive from the WSJ. This is so very Chankian (as per the Paki definition) --- seeking a secret private oil deal with Russia, while outwardly doing, saying, and fulminating the opposite. Exxon Held Secret Talks With Rosneft About Going Back to Russia Resuming business in Russia would ...
- 23 Aug 2025 21:39
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Invite Elon & say Tesla cars will have zero tariff, but other US vehicles will be subject to tariffs & duties. Have someone like Piyush Goyal tweet about it.
- 23 Aug 2025 21:36
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
The rumor is that Gor's temporary national security clearance expired in July 2025, but he's a Trump loyalist. Gor's SF-86 (National Security Standard Form 86) was rejected. Most of the time these are rejected due to financial irregularities or incomplete profile. The Senate hearings will be most in...
- 23 Aug 2025 19:35
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
In 2009 Holbrook was formally rejected using the Vienna Convention. India may say Gor can be ambassador to India, but India does not recognize his Special Envoy status.
- 23 Aug 2025 19:31
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
From Kanwal Sibal on X: It’s the first time that a US ambassador to India is also a Special Envoy for South and Central Asian affairs. This means he will have a much wider mandate covering the jurisdiction of the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs in the State Dept. Ipso facto he will be supe...
- 23 Aug 2025 07:36
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-Russia: News & Analysis
- Replies: 6096
- Views: 1619325
Re: India-Russia: News & Analysis
^^^This is explains the Trump admin's hostility to India considering over 2B barrels/day of Russian oil coming into India. The vote chori business crap done by the INC to delegitimize GoI makes much more sense in light of this. A regime change operation is underway.
- 23 Aug 2025 06:42
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 11093
- Views: 3223274
Re: Understanding the US - Again
Data coming out of the Treasury shows that from 21 Jan 2025 to 21 Aug 2025, the total US debt went from $36.2T to $37.2T. This admin is just as bad as the previous one on fiscal responsibility. The Fed is lowering rates due to $5T of 10YR Notes, financed below 2% from 2015-2019, coming due in the ne...
- 23 Aug 2025 06:35
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
^^^Unfortunately almost all of the MAGA Trumpers are lightweight. Don't expect much if any changes.
- 23 Aug 2025 06:19
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
He's a Russian Jew born in Tashkent in 1986. According to Wikipedia, Sergey Gorokhovsky was born on November 30, 1986, in Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union. The Gorokhovskys moved to Malta by 1994, when his mother established a business and registered as an Israeli national. Go...
- 02 Jul 2025 18:30
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 11093
- Views: 3223274
Re: Understanding the US - Again
Meanwhile:Journalist: “Are you going to deport Elon Musk?” Trump: "We'll have to take a look. We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? The monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies." :rotfl: Per some news report...
- 21 Jun 2025 16:10
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
This is like the Heera Maandi association of Lahore issuing certificates of virginity for its customers. At this point, might as well nominate Trump for the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry & Medicine.
- 18 Jun 2025 23:17
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
President Trump invited PM @narendramodi to the US on his way back from Canada after the G7 Summit. PM Modi politely declined the invitation due to his pre-existing commitments https://x.com/sreemoytalukdar/status/1935251656540831982 ---> Trump has little regard for the core tenets of India's natio...
- 12 Jun 2025 20:43
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
India will walk away. Any government agreeing to such a deal is a sure shot way to lose 70+ seats in parliament. Food security didn’t happen until 1972. Operation Flood for milk was launched in 1970 and made a huge impact. India is the world’s largest dairy producers.
- 08 Jun 2025 02:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 11093
- Views: 3223274
Re: Understanding the US - Again
I'll bet they go after the easy targets on the 700K for de-naturalization. They won't go after jehadis or Pakis for whom fraud is just another day of life. Talking about fraud - I don't if anyone here has heard about CHEGG. The website where they have complied solved problems from text books. It was...
- 08 Jun 2025 02:22
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 11093
- Views: 3223274
Re: Understanding the US - Again
Vayu-ji, Yes, there is a slow down in all engineering disciplines & IT. IT has been hit the hardest. Even for computer hardware engineers, entire jobs for FPGA/micro-controller design has been outsourced by the big companies. Only the defense contractors will hire hardware comp. engrs. but as yo...
- 08 Jun 2025 01:47
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 11093
- Views: 3223274
Re: Understanding the US - Again
Do OPT folks need an H1B? I thought they can work for one year on OPT. A lot of them are using up their OPT time during summers to earn money and pay off the loans they took back home. There is also oversupply of programmers and that is where most jobs are. Many folks are coming to the US to get MS...
- 08 Jun 2025 00:48
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 11093
- Views: 3223274
Re: Understanding the US - Again
The Trump administration is going after OPT students, particularly those completing MS & PhD, who are getting employment past 60 days after grace period. If an employer files for an H-1B 60 days after the grace period, ICE waits until 90 days are done, then arrests them outside of their workplac...
- 06 Jun 2025 20:07
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 11093
- Views: 3223274
- 06 Jun 2025 20:03
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 11093
- Views: 3223274
Re: Understanding the US - Again
...Probably they fixed the match... My bet is that this is likely to be fixed match, may be, a much needed distraction to keep six pack Joe away from questioning "One Big Beautiful Bill", which will increase debt by $3-5 Trillion, more inflation, and stubbornly high interest rates, which ...
- 05 Jun 2025 01:50
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Nutlick is a moron. The question is if he remains by the end of this year after TACO. Trump will accuse him of causing fiscal & market problems & he’ll be gone.
- 05 Jun 2025 01:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 11093
- Views: 3223274
Re: Understanding the US - Again
There some speculation on X by suggesting the US will not pay back $765B of Treasury notes held by the Chinese. Watch the USD take a dump.
- 28 May 2025 09:52
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
ricky_v ji, On a side note. My kids & others of the same age, graduate students in EE & physics, who are in their early 20s, use SM as a form of communication. Handshake, Slack & Discord for professional & academic stuff, then also LinkedIn which they claim is for old people. Then In...
- 28 May 2025 01:20
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 11978
- Views: 4119428
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Apparently the Trump admin wants social media vetting of all student visa applicants.
- 14 May 2025 07:38
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
- Replies: 1949
- Views: 543290
Re: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
The big takeaway for me from Op Sindoor is that India must plan to fight its future wars with indigenous weapons only. The Cost/ Benefit ratio of imported equipment is too high. Numbers matter, both for offense and defense; and the only way to afford sufficient numbers is through 'Make in India'. T...
- 10 May 2025 21:59
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!
- Replies: 2950
- Views: 640910
Re: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!
The 3 hours was enough time for them to move things around without getting hit. A deception.