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by Mort Walker
17 Sep 2025 05:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11093
Views: 3223274

Re: Understanding the US - Again

A_Gupta wrote: 16 Sep 2025 22:10 Kash Patel is not the least competent MAGA, perhaps war secy Hegseth qualifies for that.
That award goes to the Secretary of Debt Scott Bessent.
by Mort Walker
17 Sep 2025 05:26
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

Rudradev wrote: 17 Sep 2025 00:01 Full TACO in progress, with a side of rice and beans.
This administration's behavior is like the cast of a saas-bahu serial. Trump, Retardo, Nutlick, Bessent, Hegseth, Rubio & Gor. It's all getting very tiring. Who knows what "Doland my fraand" may tweet tomorrow?
by Mort Walker
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 ...
by Mort Walker
06 Sep 2025 03:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11093
Views: 3223274

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^^^If acetaminophen in children was linked to autism, we would see it the world over.
by Mort Walker
06 Sep 2025 02:21
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 11978
Views: 4119428

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^^^A law will have to be passed to do that.
by Mort Walker
04 Sep 2025 10:32
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11093
Views: 3223274

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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...
by Mort Walker
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...
by Mort Walker
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...
by Mort Walker
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...
by Mort Walker
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...
by Mort Walker
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...
by Mort Walker
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...
by Mort Walker
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...
by Mort Walker
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...
by Mort Walker
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 ...
by Mort Walker
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.
by Mort Walker
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...
by Mort Walker
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.
by Mort Walker
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...
by Mort Walker
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.
by Mort Walker
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...
by Mort Walker
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.
by Mort Walker
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...
by Mort Walker
02 Jul 2025 18:30
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11093
Views: 3223274

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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...
by Mort Walker
21 Jun 2025 16:10
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 11978
Views: 4119428

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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.
by Mort Walker
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...
by Mort Walker
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.
by Mort Walker
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...
by Mort Walker
08 Jun 2025 02:22
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11093
Views: 3223274

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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...
by Mort Walker
08 Jun 2025 01:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11093
Views: 3223274

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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...
by Mort Walker
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...
by Mort Walker
06 Jun 2025 20:07
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11093
Views: 3223274

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Lisa wrote: 06 Jun 2025 19:55 ^ How do you nationalise a company in the US and where do you deport a US citizen to? Please!
Listen to what people like Steve Bannon are saying. Basically use Defense Production Act to seize SpaceX assets.
by Mort Walker
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 ...
by Mort Walker
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.
by Mort Walker
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.
by Mort Walker
28 May 2025 09:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 11978
Views: 4119428

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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...
by Mort Walker
28 May 2025 01:20
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 11978
Views: 4119428

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Apparently the Trump admin wants social media vetting of all student visa applicants.
by Mort Walker
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...
by Mort Walker
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.