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by KLNMurthy
01 Apr 2025 05:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10691
Views: 3153045

Re: Understanding the US - Again

The New Video of Federal Agents Ambushing a Student and Disappearing With Her Should Chill You to Your Core https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-news-ice-immigration-student-rumeysa-ozturk.html "Then they came for me and there were no one left to speak for me." I hope ...
by KLNMurthy
09 Feb 2025 12:26
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10691
Views: 3153045

Re: Understanding the US - Again

@Hriday This is BRF. The expectation is that people are fully capable of reading and judging the material on its merits, recognizing that everyone is biased one way or the other, but still managing to read past the biases. There is no role for admins or some big brother to jump up and down tagging m...
by KLNMurthy
10 Sep 2024 23:56
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 10/7 vs 9/11 (Israel-Gaza) Strategic Fallout & Implications
Replies: 334
Views: 167709

Re: 10/7 vs 9/11 (Israel-Gaza) Strategic Fallout & Implications

… So while I don't innately bear any hostility to fellow targets of jihad like Israelis, I nevertheless cannot accept anyone throwing India under a bus. Do you see my rationale and basis for concern? well-stated position. Israel is a fellow-victim of jihad, but India should be first and foremost. S...
by KLNMurthy
30 Aug 2024 02:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 11309
Views: 4013880

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

... This visit is not about arms deals. This visit is about Modi fearfully running to Washington in a state of "shock & awe". The sudden urgency of this visit clearly conveys a sense of worry and fear from Modi's side. He should know better. ... "Modi suddenly rushing", &quo...
by KLNMurthy
29 Aug 2024 23:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 11309
Views: 4013880

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

… Sir, I am in no way banking on Trump winning - as you say, he could very well lose. But I'm saying that has yet to be determined before November 8, and therefore Indian PM should wait until after that date to go visit Washington. What is the benefit in going now, ahead of that date? Again, it all...
by KLNMurthy
29 Aug 2024 23:04
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Replies: 2323
Views: 917795

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat

It’s good to see Kangana settling down & putting an end to the waves. She is very talented and I hope she is able to channel her talent for India and Hindus.
by KLNMurthy
29 Aug 2024 06:20
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Replies: 2323
Views: 917795

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat

Chetak saar, Thanks for the update and some details. In democracy there are going to be different voices and curtailing them due to fear of some outside forces is not the way to go about things. Kangana and others are saying the obvious. Let it play out however crude they may be. BJP high command c...
by KLNMurthy
29 Aug 2024 06:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 11309
Views: 4013880

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

So much disrespect for Modi! He is the Prime Minister of India, in case you have forgotten.

Mods, is this language going to get a pass?
by KLNMurthy
01 Jul 2024 09:58
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Replies: 2323
Views: 917795

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat

@DeanS when the Space Shuttle Columbia blew up, Richard Feynmann was put in charge of getting to the bottom of what happened, though it could be said he had no practical experience. He ended up delivering a pretty satisfactory report. Is it possible that the rationale behind appointing IITD faculty ...
by KLNMurthy
24 Jun 2024 22:04
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Replies: 2323
Views: 917795

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat

BJP should thoroughly expose Congress and its Allies on NEET and give harshest punishment to the culprits. BJP should take back control of narrative and fight back propaganda. At this point in time, the split between the government and the opposition supporters is complete. Nothing that the governm...
by KLNMurthy
20 May 2024 06:04
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 1668
Views: 645617

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

Taken together, two "nomination" related articles (Surat and Varanasi) in the western/BIF leaning media start looking like possibly a toolkit operation: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/bjp-accused-intimidation-india-elections-gujarat https://scroll.in/article/1068014...
by KLNMurthy
20 May 2024 06:01
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 1668
Views: 645617

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

Does anyone seriously think Modi has to resort to preventing opponents from filing nominations in Varanasi? Is it even believable for anyone who is not a westerner? hence now they're insinuating (some sections of the media) that the roadshow of the PM in Varanasi was an 'organised'/'staged event', ...
by KLNMurthy
20 May 2024 05:03
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 1668
Views: 645617

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

V_Raman wrote: 20 May 2024 04:35 I do think some kind of estate/inheritance tax is a good idea - with copious exemptions similar to USA. All advanced economies have it.
I think a better idea at election time is to beat the INDI alliance using any available stick.
by KLNMurthy
20 May 2024 03:49
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 1668
Views: 645617

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

One puzzling thing for me is why the anti India forces in India and abroad fail to nurture an anti-BJP party that is low on corruption and into sustainable economic policies ? They need not practice openly anti Hindu policies so as to prevent Hindu consolidation. Such a party can do long term damag...
by KLNMurthy
20 May 2024 03:41
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 1668
Views: 645617

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

@disha, the fact is Varanasi has only 8 candidates this time. I leave it to you to compare to the number previously. The number of rejected nominations is also very much factual. There are no anonymous sources in the scroll.in article, everyone is named. I would not classify it as gossip. If you wa...
by KLNMurthy
20 May 2024 03:32
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 1668
Views: 645617

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

This kind of thing is simply bad, if it is true. https://scroll.in/article/1068014/varanasi-poll-as-33-nominations-are-rejected-eight-applicants-allege-that-the-process-was-rigged In Prime Minister Modi’s constituency, poll officials and candidates linked with BJP-RSS are alleged to have impeded ot...
by KLNMurthy
16 Apr 2024 00:32
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 1668
Views: 645617

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

@A_Gupta As to damaging India’s strategic interests (may be even providing causus belli for sanctions in some scenarios) it seems the electoral bond propaganda is not the only hazard. INC has pulled out all the stops to wreck the foundations of the Indian system and confidence in it, and this is jus...
by KLNMurthy
16 Apr 2024 00:28
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 1668
Views: 645617

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

@A_Gupta Thanks again for shedding light on this opaque (to me) topic. Q. Where do India’s electoral bonds stand on the electoral & administrative transparency vis-a-vis self-styled “gold standard” of US? - in US, individual contributions have limits, but PACs can funnel unlimited and untraceabl...
by KLNMurthy
15 Apr 2024 18:51
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 1668
Views: 645617

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

Can I trouble you to give an idiot’s guide explanation of the Supreme Court’s reasoning in declaring electoral bonds unconstitutional? … i.e., freedom of speech, to be meaningful, requires "information which would be necessary to further participatory democracy in other forms and is not restri...
by KLNMurthy
12 Apr 2024 05:52
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 1668
Views: 645617

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

… The culture needs to change that clean money identifiably given is legitimate; and it is up to the voters to decide whether a party is unduly influenced by its donors. Can I trouble you to give an idiot’s guide explanation of the Supreme Court’s reasoning in declaring electoral bonds unconstituti...
by KLNMurthy
30 Mar 2024 04:45
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 5447
Views: 2395131

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

https://www.dawn.com/news/1823516 Dar says Pakistan to examine trade situation with India Dar is open to reopening trade with India. As we all know, more than 1Billion people live on less than $2 per day in South Asia, and we have fought 4 wars over Cashmere and South Asia is the next nuclear flash...
by KLNMurthy
30 Mar 2024 04:24
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 1668
Views: 645617

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

Gurus - how do you see Congress account freeze saga i understand and support land of law but somewhere it alters the narrative of free and fair election ? Modi 3.0 is bound to happen even without it so why to give anyone a chance to say oh they won because of all this ? It can’t be that some politi...
by KLNMurthy
27 Mar 2024 05:06
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 1668
Views: 645617

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

Smita Prakash interview with Madhavi Lata, BJP candidate standing against Asad Owaisi in Hyderabad.

https://youtu.be/kKXiHnK5-Gg?feature=shared
by KLNMurthy
18 Mar 2024 12:21
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 11309
Views: 4013880

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

^^^ If that's the case, then Adani is most likely guilty. Because, depending on the nature of the government contract. 3 % to 5 % of the contract value has to be passed back to the party in power. I have reliable paan wala source for both Tamilnadu and Shri 420 sarkar in Delhi. With one of the wort...
by KLNMurthy
20 Feb 2024 01:53
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
Replies: 3327
Views: 1119188

Re: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1

goes through the mind of Hindu This question is central to Bharat. We have the Dravidian parties in TN who have openly declared war against Sanatan Dharma. We have the ugly statues of these Britshit agents (periyar etc) who furthered the Britshit Bishop Caldwell idealogy in front of most important ...
by KLNMurthy
20 Feb 2024 01:45
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
Replies: 3327
Views: 1119188

Re: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1

Smriti Irani talks to Nupur J Sharma about Sandeshkhali and West Bengal There has been a horror unfolding in Sandeshkhali, West Bengal. The women of Sandeshkhali have spoken out about the tyranny of Sheikh Shahjahan and his goons, who would sexually exploit, rape and torture Hindu women. Sheikh Sha...
by KLNMurthy
20 Nov 2023 01:53
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Why We Need Pokhran-3
Replies: 113
Views: 45663

Re: Why We Need Pokhran-3

Since this is hypothetical: I think one reason to test is to send a message to the world that all their vilification, threats and domestic instigations against India don’t matter. India will do what it needs to do for its own benefit, no matter what. We are not going to dhoti-shiver because sanction...
by KLNMurthy
11 Nov 2023 08:23
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: 21st Century Asymmetric / Unconventional Warfare
Replies: 8
Views: 6095

Re: 21st Century Asymmetric / Unconventional Warfare

Israel Must Destroy Hamas’s Tunnels Hamas has purposely placed its entire military apparatus within and underneath civilian infrastructure, from supply lines and transportation routes in tunnels crisscrossing Gaza’s cities to underground command-and-control centers, ammunition depots, living quarte...
by KLNMurthy
08 Nov 2023 06:29
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)
Replies: 2960
Views: 1232628

Re: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)

^^^ I do like to think that Pannun is all talk only. But I think we should take Pannun seriously. If we do not, no one else will, and terrorism and terrorist talk will continue to flourish. Also: 1. One reason to file an explicit non-anonymous complaint is that these law enforcement authorities sho...
by KLNMurthy
08 Nov 2023 06:25
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: 21st Century Asymmetric / Unconventional Warfare
Replies: 8
Views: 6095

Re: 21st Century Asymmetric / Unconventional Warfare

Vayutuvan wrote: 08 Nov 2023 04:57 Can India and/or Pakistan use this kind of tunnelling stratgey along the border in Rajasthan/Gujarat during a war?
I’m guessing yes, would depend on nature of soil etc maybe.

Also, there is a chance of detection by satellite while boring the tunnels, due to open terrain.

Just guessing.
by KLNMurthy
08 Nov 2023 06:21
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: 21st Century Asymmetric / Unconventional Warfare
Replies: 8
Views: 6095

Re: 21st Century Asymmetric / Unconventional Warfare

My purely amateur thought was: Instead of going into tunnels being the only way, why not evacuate all ground floors of all buildings to start with, then use gravitational or whatever technology in each building to locate upward segments of any tunnels that may be opening on the ground floors, and pu...
by KLNMurthy
08 Nov 2023 04:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1283
Views: 3415826

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Hamas's objective in starting this, was to bring Palestinian statehood to the forefront - it has bene put on the backburner, as the various Arab regimes were in the process of normalizing ties with Israel. Hamas could only hope to this by incurring as many civilian casualties as possible. In that r...
by KLNMurthy
08 Nov 2023 04:27
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: European Union: Positive News
Replies: 538
Views: 461083

Re: European Union: Positive News

Haresh wrote: 04 Nov 2023 17:17 They appear to have woken up to the threat they have imported.

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1 ... 5221244185
They are not going to change their attitude towards India. India is too harmless.
by KLNMurthy
08 Nov 2023 04:15
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: 21st Century Asymmetric / Unconventional Warfare
Replies: 8
Views: 6095

Re: 21st Century Asymmetric / Unconventional Warfare

Tunnel warfare in Gaza. By all measures, Hamas has patiently built up a formidable defensive system beneath Gaza in terms of its scale and technology. Yehia Sinwar, Hamas’ political leader, has claimed that the militant group had 500 kilometers (310 miles) of tunnels dug under a Gaza Strip that is ...
by KLNMurthy
08 Nov 2023 04:14
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: 21st Century Asymmetric / Unconventional Warfare
Replies: 8
Views: 6095

21st Century Asymmetric / Unconventional Warfare

Starting this thread since I didn’t see any other place to share information about Israel’s tunnel warfare with Hamas.

Other forms of asymmetric & unconventional warfare info from around the world can also be shared here.
by KLNMurthy
06 Nov 2023 01:13
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Replies: 6254
Views: 2471121

Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

Inglistan is over. [ this post probably belongs in the bositive neuj thread.] Seen on X: Video: British army veteran in uniform, being told by police to keep the British flag behind the police barrier. Veteran: But they are allowed to carry as many Palestinian flags as they want on the road. Police ...
by KLNMurthy
06 Nov 2023 01:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1283
Views: 3415826

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Israel has hit Gaza hard and showed their capacity and resolve against terrorism. To avoid losing continued support to them so far from various quarters globally (and locally), would it be wise for them to give a temporary pause on military ops (disaster to human lives and negative image) and let t...
by KLNMurthy
06 Nov 2023 00:58
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 11309
Views: 4013880

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

HAF has some brilliant people doing amazing work. Aside from Suhag Shukla and her team, Dr. Indu Viswanathan is bringing a much-needed psychological aspect to the efforts to keep Hinduism alive. [Mods: Don’t know whether this exactly belongs in this thread, please redirect if needed.] Here is a 2-pa...