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by yensoy
28 Mar 2023 04:12
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Replies: 5643
Views: 1634507

Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

Rsatchi wrote:OMG a jihadi is now the First Minister of Scotland
Equal=Equal given Sunak is PM
Can or should we expect some noises from across the border
And also Cashmore utterances yada yada
All we want is Scotland to ask for partition from UK.
by yensoy
27 Mar 2023 21:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Replies: 5643
Views: 1634507

Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

^^^^ Sir but that's why US and other countries have been asking for biometrics from all visa applicants, right? As long as fingerprints are available, it should be easy for US to figure out the person's identity which they can share with Indian authorities if they want them deported.
by yensoy
27 Mar 2023 11:55
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 4426
Views: 1345821

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

Re Yana Mir, there was some nonsense talk that she was a non-Kashmiri; I think this is being put to rest here (beside of course the other content).
by yensoy
24 Mar 2023 00:39
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 7503
Views: 1750467

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Hindenburg is back with a report showing corporatization of criminal activity in the US. Block: How Inflated User Metrics and “Frictionless” Fraud Facilitation Enabled Insiders To Cash Out Over $1 Billion Video This is what happens when the government abdicates its core responsibility of issuing mo...
by yensoy
23 Mar 2023 08:38
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
Replies: 1782
Views: 635963

Re: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015

FYI Armenia has offered to provide a corridor between Iran and Russia, so that India does not have to deal with Azerbaijan and Turkey/Pakistan. Armenia is landlocked and has few friends. We have been selling them radars and weapons. Not surprising they would offer this, but we still need to go thro...
by yensoy
22 Mar 2023 22:17
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Replies: 5643
Views: 1634507

Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

https://i.imgur.com/53QwdwL.jpeg Good, now please unearth a murti right by the gate and build a small temple there. Also someone at the Indian embassy in London should step out in the balcony with a big zoom lens, and take clear frontal pictures of everyone they possibly can. Run full facial recogn...
by yensoy
22 Mar 2023 07:50
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Russian-Ukranian War: Geopolitical Fallout
Replies: 2716
Views: 685244

Re: Russian-Ukranian War: Geopolitical Fallout

West wants to "siege" Russia through sanctions and encirclement. Problem is that Russia is too big to be sieged. It has copious natural resources - energy, minerals, agriculture, forestry you name it. It has talent and education, a whole generation of us derived our knowledge in mathematic...
by yensoy
21 Mar 2023 12:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 7956
Views: 2252768

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

^^^^ You know that (great information btw) but the paki awaam doesn't. They are happy and proud that their fauj has the latest and greatest weaponry purchased from brotherly country. Fauj is happy to pocket most of the money because obviously they aren't going to pay the Turks full price. Turks are ...
by yensoy
20 Mar 2023 13:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Social Problems in Punjab and their Strategic Impact
Replies: 482
Views: 121699

Re: Social Problems in Punjab and their Strategic Impact

I think the problem is as follows. Sikhs command a special respect in India. By and large the rest of us look up to them in some way as the force that saved us from total annihilation, admire the teachings of the gurus, the sense of equality & universality, and the concept of langar & seva (...
by yensoy
20 Mar 2023 11:46
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Replies: 5643
Views: 1634507

Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

Yes this has happened too many times now and brits are complicit or incapable of doing anything. Isnt it obvious, for sikhs to get residency and Visa they have to follow the home countries policy, and Canada , Australia are all alliance partners And to get their asylum status approved they need to ...
by yensoy
20 Mar 2023 10:14
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 7956
Views: 2252768

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

^^^^ Yeah, "discussions with the Pakistani authorities have exclusively focused on economic policies" like ... so tell me sir what is this budget line item for $10B which says XXXX? I need you to please reduce it to zero.
by yensoy
20 Mar 2023 04:54
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 7956
Views: 2252768

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

And SL continues to be a highly viable country. It has excellent HDI numbers including good education & health. It is safe for tourists who have returned in numbers; it was safe for tourists even in the worst of the economic crisis when locals lined up at petrol pumps in an orderly manner. It pr...
by yensoy
20 Mar 2023 04:46
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Russian-Ukranian War: Geopolitical Fallout
Replies: 2716
Views: 685244

Re: Russian-Ukranian War: Geopolitical Fallout

All I can say is WW3. Lets remove the word "World" here. It's giving them too much credit. We got pulled into WWI and WWII, our soldiers sacrificed their lives for the sake of our colonizers, who in turn starved our population in order to feed their military machine. Sorry, not interested...
by yensoy
18 Mar 2023 12:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Challenge of China_ Political, Economic & Military Responses
Replies: 553
Views: 222761

Re: Challenge of China_ Political, Economic & Military Responses

If I understand correctly, are the gurus now saying that the positioning of himself as the absolute emporer completed and the external campaigns (end games) about to be initiated.. The trillion dollar question is whether all the belligerence displayed by XI was posturing to get to the pole position...
by yensoy
18 Mar 2023 07:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 4426
Views: 1345821

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

Remember that Chinese, through farming, are actually exporting water. They are growing water-intensive agricultural crops in Pakistan and exporting them to China. There was some proposal from UAE and Saudia to do the same Turns out it is UAE, Saudis and China stealing water from Pakistan and not In...
by yensoy
17 Mar 2023 21:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 4426
Views: 1345821

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

^^^^ I think this will mostly be used to grow food for the Chinese. But enough land exists to give a bunch of jernails 1 acre plots. We provide them water at our own peril.
by yensoy
16 Mar 2023 13:03
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
Replies: 8451
Views: 3039009

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017

B.A. (history) + school of hard knocks + common sense >> IIT + IIM + PhD + professorship
by yensoy
15 Mar 2023 22:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 4426
Views: 1345821

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

^^^^ To the uninitiated like me, what are those things that look like the dabbas that our famous dabbawallas carry?
by yensoy
15 Mar 2023 08:56
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8808
Views: 2486652

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Garcetti: CAA is unfair to muslims refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
India: So why don't you take them to Amrika?
by yensoy
14 Mar 2023 13:21
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 7956
Views: 2252768

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

The cost of the shadow economy The informal sector’s contribution to Pakistan’s economy is remarkable as it adds a handsome volume of approximately $661 billion, tantamount to 35.6 per cent of GDP. Sir I missed the memo. When did Paxtan become a 1.85Tr $ economy? Or is the author using some funny u...
by yensoy
14 Mar 2023 10:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Quad News and Discussion- June 2021
Replies: 377
Views: 99353

Re: Quad News and Discussion- June 2021

The Quad Squad: Power and Purpose of the Polygon | Raisina Dialogue 2023 I watched this, clearly there were 2 camps, and one them was quite unsure where the other is leading them and if this whole thing made sense.. I'll let you place your guesses. Reminds me of the old poem "The Blind Man and...
by yensoy
14 Mar 2023 07:37
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 7503
Views: 1750467

Re: Understanding the US - Again

SVB's problems are it's own doing. Regarding the tie-up with VCs and tech, it's because they were able to get away without paying any interest for those accounts, which made them blindsided to the fact that they actually needed to invest their funds wisely and minimize risk.
by yensoy
13 Mar 2023 06:06
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Russian-Ukranian War: Geopolitical Fallout
Replies: 2716
Views: 685244

Re: Russian-Ukranian War: Geopolitical Fallout

Actually the 501(c) charity became a very difficult thing to set up after 9/11.

I am not talking about a "private" charity or NGO. I am talking about a governmental aid agency that provides aid to the western world, headquartered in India.
by yensoy
12 Mar 2023 09:22
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
Replies: 1962
Views: 565968

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

^^^^ Sir, I don't think MBS is doing all this from the goodness of his heart. He knows he has to modernize otherwise it's game over for Saudis and they will be no different from Syria and Iraq in an era of dwindling earnings from oil and a large population to support. Society's perceptions can be re...
by yensoy
11 Mar 2023 23:26
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 7956
Views: 2252768

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

Lot of info on promised aid not reaching TSP and the reasons. Funds worth $23b still pending In other words Pak army has stolen a lot of it and blamed the civilian govt for non completion of projects etc. This is a country which doesn't know how many people it has, how many kids go to school, how m...
by yensoy
11 Mar 2023 02:00
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 7956
Views: 2252768

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

^why was he rejected by his cousin sister? Maybe she was only "beautiful with splashing white complexition" but not "very very". So mum wants a Doctor daughter in law who shouldn't work. The country already has few doctors and like us they have pretty high requirements for medic...
by yensoy
10 Mar 2023 22:15
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
Replies: 1782
Views: 635963

Re: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015

That is how it has always worked - for about 3000 years. Sir you left out the biggest elephant in the room. US is at war with its own self. The US elites - wall street, foggy bottom, pentagon, langley, supported by academia, hollywood and even entrepreneurs - have decimated America. Cities are a me...
by yensoy
10 Mar 2023 22:04
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Replies: 5643
Views: 1634507

Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

Strange, very strange. Rob an Indian bank and have umpteen different appeal options. Rob an American bank and quickly get extradited!... No. nothing strange. This is Good crook / Bad crook... like the Good taliban, Bad taliban. As they say in Indian, the one with the stick owns the buffalo. We need...
by yensoy
09 Mar 2023 22:50
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 4426
Views: 1345821

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

chetak wrote:this is a putrescent fantasy..........
what cheap stuff do these guys smoke
This doofus is supposed to be a public intellectual. So pray did he even raise the question of why we don't reunify with Bangladesh first, a country which is better suited to reunite on every single count?
by yensoy
09 Mar 2023 11:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 4426
Views: 1345821

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

if the Indian company doesn't do it than someone else will. What's stupid about this? It is like saying, if we don't help them someone else will. Let someone else do it then. I am personally nauseated that any Indian, PIO or otherwise would be part of this. I hope RAW places some men among the sail...
by yensoy
09 Mar 2023 05:29
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Russian-Ukranian War: Geopolitical Fallout
Replies: 2716
Views: 685244

Re: Russian-Ukranian War: Geopolitical Fallout

Actually this why India also can't abolish FCRA. They have to keep cutting it down slowly and systematically. The only way to make the point is to set up an India AID organization to operate in the US and Euro area to provide humanitarian aid to the many poor and deserving who have fallen through t...
by yensoy
09 Mar 2023 02:25
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 7956
Views: 2252768

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

^^^^ I had an idea of Haj in the Metaverse but thought it would be branded a kufr conspiracy.
by yensoy
08 Mar 2023 12:52
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Russian-Ukranian War: Geopolitical Fallout
Replies: 2716
Views: 685244

Re: Russian-Ukranian War: Geopolitical Fallout

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1633128532833599488?s=20 Breaking News: A pro-Ukrainian group may have carried out the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines last year, intelligence reviewed by U.S. officials suggested. No mention of source, no details! Exactly! and yet it is supposed to be more au...
by yensoy
06 Mar 2023 00:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 7956
Views: 2252768

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

It is not that Pakistanis are not self-aware. The first part of this speech on Youtube spells it out quite clearly. (The title of the Youtube is click-bait.) This fellow, after all, is a Memon and somewhat better tuned in. BTW, he did raise the point about population growth, good for him. But this ...
by yensoy
06 Mar 2023 00:18
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 7956
Views: 2252768

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

Thank you for the Gateway House article. Yes we can assume the interest rate will be no less than LIBOR+4% given the high risk of default and this being a purely commercial Chinese entity which would have been goaded by the PRC government to make the loan at whatever interest it considered fair. IMO...
by yensoy
05 Mar 2023 04:18
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 7956
Views: 2252768

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

^^^^ what's the interest rate that bakis are paying to shylock ICBC for the loan? is anyone even asking that question?
by yensoy
03 Mar 2023 23:04
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
Replies: 8451
Views: 3039009

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017

Atmavik wrote:
chetak wrote:In the meanwhile, back at the ranch....
This genius will ask us to create liberal arts univ and provide jobs to his friends to cook khayali pulao
I read this comment first before seeing the quoted post, and I guessed that the genius in question was none other than RRR :rotfl:
by yensoy
03 Mar 2023 23:01
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 7956
Views: 2252768

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

Miftah calls Dar's exchange rate policy 'a joke with the economy' Former finance minister Miftah Ismail on Thursday slammed the policy of artificially managing the dollar rate, saying that it was "not a serious economic policy but a joke with the economy". ...This is not a serious economi...
by yensoy
03 Mar 2023 09:54
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 4426
Views: 1345821

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

^^^^ Good watch, in some ways he gets it better than the others when he speaks of the priorities of the government and people emphasizing on delivering thrifty infrastructure to large masses, and not extravagant infra to a select few