Bharat Rakshak

JE Menon

@JEM, If you happen to meet Alex again please let him know he has me hooked on Cyprus. If I do, I certainly will, and I suspect there is a possibility it may happen; he has my card, offering support on some unrelated issues if needed. If you are heading there, please let me know as early as you can...

JE Menon

Russian Orthodox Christianity - as I understand the situation - is the oldest form of Christianity. So, it is very conservative. Universally, until 100 years ago only a male Christian had a "soul". They then included Christian women. So, if you are not in either group you cannot have a &q...

JE Menon

JEMenon gaaru, Alex Christoforou related to Alexis Christoforous by chance? Possible, but highly unlikely. Both Alexandros (short for Alex, Alexis - latter being a unisex name in Greece/Cyprus) and Alexandra of which Alexis can be a shortened version are very common names in Greece/Cyprus. However,...

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Jan 10, 2023 :: EU to extend sanctions against Belarus and Iran for supporting Russian war against Ukraine, says von der Leyen This AM, while commenting on this, Alex Christoforou posed the question, "Who next?" and answered it himself: "Turkey, India, China?". About three weeks...

JE Menon

>>BTW, unconfirmed, but, I have come across two reports that India, Japan, and Australia have started collaborating (without the US) on intel and other security issues. ?????? Could you identify the reports? I am highly skeptical about the (without the US) part. Maybe physically. Australia shares EV...

JE Menon

European countries have centuries of wars and long histories of mutual aggressions between them. As soon as they get a chance they try to grab with both hands and press their advantage to gain strength. Especially true for land locked or limited sea access countries. Poland is one. The EU experimen...

JE Menon

I often wonder what drives the likes of this Pankaj Mishra? They want to be praised by the woke gora crowd ?? Basically a need to be accepted as part of the white social elite, which basically means he gets treated as one of them most of the time he is in their company. The chap also married, or ha...

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>>The woke crowd encourages this BS as a virtue signalling device... So many small battles triggered by Anglo-saxies. 100% agree hnair - the Anglosphere ($32 Trillion GDP) is the fount of a lot of evil in this world, and the British elites - the old-boy network blended through the bureaucracy, milit...

JE Menon

Yes Nirmala Seetharaman is JNU alumni

JE Menon

>>Replying to clarify something you mentioned in your first post - that Kenyan Africans are Christian. There is a large Muslim minority (a regional majority in my day) on the Coast where Omani Arabs had been colonising for about four or five centuries before European appearance. The Arabs actually m...

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>>I speak Swahili reasonably fluently; the term for Indian is Muhindi (singular) or Wahindi (plural when speaking of a group). I stand corrected. I have only heard the singular version used in general terms for Indians. Regarding Eastleigh, I don't know when you were there, but between 2012-2018, it...

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>>Dead right. In Kenya and the rest of E. Africa, they were Wahindi, Swahili for Indians. When I left Kenya in the 1960s there was no word for Pakistan or Pakistanis in Swahili. You can be assured that nothing has changed, except that the word has transformed to Muhindi (for Indians) and Muzungu (fo...

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The situation within Russia is "normal" for war circumstances. There will be people who want to get out, I know several; and there will be people who are staying back. I have both types (in my family). The reasons for this are complex and not necessarily related to "not wanting to fig...

JE Menon

>>This claim, amongst so many others on this thread, would be surreal even if there were some facts to support your case. The Anglosphere comprises the largest economic grouping in the world. That is a fact. From their point of view, disintegration of the European Union into its component states wou...

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>>Why would the western Europe toe the line of uncle for ever? What's really in there for them? They won't because there isn't anything in it for them. So long as NATO was "passive" and did not cross red lines it was tolerable, even comforting to have it around. So long as Russia did not p...

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A good friend of mine, president of a wealth management company in Canada, earlier today requested an opinion on the general situation post-Ukraine, and with an emphasis on whether Turkey will join the SCO. This is what I wrote to him in a "stream of thought" ramble, but some of you might ...

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>>One of the authors, LINDSEY SNELL, just an hour ago, was live with Lira on YT. Yes, NRao, I watched that Lindsey Snell, Eva Bartlett and Vanessa Beeley are doing good work - although the latter two, at least, are a bit too far to the left for my taste. Their work in Ukraine is a balancer to some e...

JE Menon

@Haridas,

From a psyops point of view, but with technical validity, could it be argued that the need for a lighter ICBM is because this will enable a long-second strike against traditional adversary (China-Pak) from a distant submarine location in the Atlantic or the far Pacific?

JE Menon

>>It's really just a money making enterprise, with jesus thrown it.. The evangelical business model, which is devastating even "traditional" Christian communities in Kerala for instance, is entirely a commercial model and, if successful, a potentially destructive and civilization erasing o...

JE Menon

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/18/ukra ... diers-war/

Another article on the ground situation in Ukraine from the Grayzone.

JE Menon

This is exactly why protocol is there, to ensure that neither side makes it a habit to demonstrate its disregard for the other's value in a relationship. So for the Americans to say that Indians are sticklers for protocol, and very hierarchy conscious is the same, in fact, as saying that "these...

JE Menon

There's a YT link 3-4 posts above...

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JE Menon

The report from the Telegraph is pure propaganda. That does not seem to be Crimeans leaving the area, but mainland Russian tourists who visit the area in the hundreds of thousands in these months. They have twisted tourists leaving to an exodus from Crimea which is not the case. My own BIL and famil...

JE Menon

Below copy/pasted from the Russians with Attitude Telegram channel. It is well worth a read, to get an idea of the "state of mind" of the mid-level Russian bureaucracy, and I believe, above as well. ___________________________________________________________________________________________...

JE Menon

How about an airborne directed energy weapon? Flying low and just within international waters...also explains the ridiculous precision. Hard to see how they could have infiltrated, placed explosives, and gotten away undetected given the level of security and control that Russians exercise even ordin...

JE Menon

>>Chinese are too stupid to do whats right... China instead went ahead and made an enemy out of every nation around them. It is possible that the Chinese deliberately went ahead and made an enemy out of every nation around them, and further afield for the following reasons: 1. It knew that if N Kore...

JE Menon

>>Russia will need India when China starts eyeing their far east Correct, IMO. People overplay the Sino-Russian "alliance" of today, forgetting that all such alliances - up until the bipolarity post WW2 were ephemeral and often quickly counterproductive. We can be sure of one thing. Provid...

JE Menon

India's enemies have many, many shills in the media and think tanks. India has very few supporters. Michael Rubin is unquestionably one of India's supporters (or at least, as much of a supporter as any American could be of India in the public sphere). Rubin is a strongly pro-Israel voice, and he re...

JE Menon

One of the best observers, with a clinical view of the subject, of the Ukrainian crisis is the former Swiss Intelligence Officer Jacques Baud. This may have been posted here before, but if so I missed, so let me relink it here again for interested readers. https://www.thepostil.com/the-military-situ...

JE Menon

the more i think of it Brexit was also for similar reasoning ., only pushed through because powers that be realised this could be useful I think you are right. 2013 Brexit was proposed. 2014 Maidan, 2015 Minsk 2 collapses & Brexit referendum is held... Britain gets deeply involved in Ukraine, s...

JE Menon

Worse, they are trying to convince everyone else that it is the right one too... doubling down on a f**k up. Yes, one country has balanced the crap out of it. Note that there are few opeds on the subject critical of the government anymore. Partly it is gentle revenue related pressure, no doubt, but ...

JE Menon

>>I think the US exposed itself too much unthinkingly or uncaringly as a mindless bully and generated a level of mistrust that will be very hard if not impossible to remedy.

This is as near a certainty as any there is.

JE Menon

>>Part of me thinks EU countries were tricked into it by UK & US

All of me is beginning to be convinced of this

JE Menon

Om Shanti. A true soldier for Dharma.

JE Menon

Yes, the changes in the UAE are absolutely far reaching and impressively bold by the standards of Gulf states. This is as clear a sign as any that there is a strong big picture alignment between the US and the Gulf states on the way forward. There is a central role for India in this situation, that ...

JE Menon

Please read and internalize this folks. This is the reality we face:

https://www.indiafacts.org.in/book-revi ... -foretold/

JE Menon

Nice Menon saar, the reminder about "slow process" is gruesome, but necessary. Shows the level of "commitment" on the perp's part to carry it through. Would it have been counterproductive to point out that their way of life recognizes and normalizes this kind of "revenge by...

JE Menon

Tanaji wrote:
The last two paragraphs are the ones that should be required reading for all Indians these days.

Excellent article JEM saar..

Thank you Tanaji, sincerely appreciated.

JE Menon

My article on the Paris beheading in Swarajya... Please share it if you find it worthy.

https://swarajyamag.com/ideas/a-beheadi ... end-not-to

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