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US wants to exhaust the world reserves as much as possible before dipping into own reserves. And US being a big buyer helps maintain the petro dollar.
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FWIW Biden's 48 page national security strategy doc released today.

link to download pdf
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u ... 0.2022.pdf
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It mentions that their global priorities are outcompeting China and constraining Russia.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... ne-of-them
Saudi Arabia is choosing friends on its own terms and Biden is not one of them
Martin Chulov, Wed 12 Oct 2022
Reactions in Washington to slashing oil supply have not concerned Mohammed bin Salman; nor have the optics of indirectly boosting Putin’s war

Mohammed bin Salman had seen it coming. The groundswell of anger in Washington was clear and building since he helped lead an Opec+ decision to cut the world’s oil supply last week.
But for the first time in the modern era of ties between the US and Saudi Arabia, there was no rush to placate hard feelings, or gloss over a rift. This was the birth of a new realpolitik, where nascent Saudi nationalism paid no heed to a historical ally and instead aligned itself to what Riyadh literally sees as a new world order.
The decision by Opec+ – the oil production cartel led by Saudi Arabia, plus Russia – was the clearest sign yet that relations between Washington and Riyadh have reached a nadir and, perhaps more importantly, that such a situation does not overly concern the de facto Saudi leader. For months before Joe Biden’s July visit to Jeddah and especially in the three months since, Saudi social media was buzzing with talk of a “swagger” shown by Prince Mohammed and, by extension, Saudi Arabia. The 37-year-old heir to the throne had used the time to stake out what a kingdom on his watch would look like and how it would project.
Riyadh would no longer be a Flintstones-like theocracy that eschewed progress and hid behind a US security umbrella, he insisted, but a wealthy middle power in its own right that chose its friends, on its own terms. Biden, who had described the crown prince as a pariah that he would avoid while in office, was not to be one of them.
Oil, the biggest tool in its basket of offerings, was no more to be a prize doled out to friends at mates’ rates, but an instrument to be weaponised – for Saudi interests. The new stances shattered accommodations that had underwritten bilateral relations between the US and Saudi Arabia, in particular an informal pact that had guaranteed the kingdom’s security in return for keeping the oil valves open and – when it mattered – bowser prices low.
Such new positions in isolation would have been uncomfortable enough for a US government that had come to take as a given that Riyadh would have its back when it mattered. But in the context of Russia’s war in Ukraine a new geopolitical dynamic has emerged. In cutting output to keep prices high, Saudi Arabia has allied with Russia and, in doing so, indirectly boosted Vladimir Putin’s war effort, just as the Russian leader was foundering.
Riyadh has countered by saying that the decision to slash output by 2m barrels was purely commercial and suggested it needed an oil price of around $100 to sustain the enormous investments the kingdom has made across Saudi Arabia to fund economic and cultural programs. There is indeed a business case to be made for a higher price per barrel, but Prince Mohammed’s risk/reward ratio has clearly been recalibrated.
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They have a country but not a society
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g.sarkar wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... ne-of-them
Saudi Arabia is choosing friends on its own terms and Biden is not one of them
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Gautam
This is truly a big development. I always had a feeling that Americans weren't paying the MSRP on oil (spot price?) and had sweetheart deals with their suppliers. If that is no longer the case and they have to have the same kind of contracts as the rest of the world does, it would partly explain the galloping inflation seen in the US. A sensible country would try to address the problem by encouraging fuel efficient cars, hybrid/electric vehicles, public transport etc, and discouraging oil hogging overpowered, overweight yuppie trucks - but we are talking about an America which still defends guns.

Instead, the Americans are frothing at the mouth, calling Saudis names and threatening to stop arms supply. Saudis were doing Americans a favour by steadily buying overpriced arms in huge quantities. Very shrewdly they cut a peace deal with Israel and normalized their relation with Qatar, leaving Iran as the only possible adversary except Iran itself is weak and probably won't attempt any adventure. So the Saudis don't even need arms anymore, they have enough of a stockpile to last them a long time.

Look out for Unkil trying to foment a revolution in Saudi because the latter decided they won't sell cheap oil. OPEC was always a cartel, unfortunately Unkil has managed to piss off one after another oil producer - Iran, Venezuela, Angola, Libya, Russia and now Saudi. Iraq is in a disarray. Who's left? Norway? We may be heading into another oil shock like 1973.
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Don't forget Americans have a large military presence in KSA which can be handy in several scenarios. MBS knows this, thats why rapprochement with Russia was a pre-requisite before showing Amreekis the finger.
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yensoy wrote:Very shrewdly they cut a peace deal with Israel and normalized their relation with Qatar, leaving Iran as the only possible adversary except Iran itself is weak and probably won't attempt any adventure. So the Saudis don't even need arms anymore, they have enough of a stockpile to last them a long time.
Also Russia has good relationship with Iran and they can probably guarantee a peace deal. So this is some really smart move from MBS. He will surely have to watch his back as unkil will try for a regime change one way or another.
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This is the capitalistic free-market that US propounded that is coming to bite US in the ass. US typically imports pretty less from ME, less than 50% of its oil come from ME. However, if oil prices rise in international market, even oil produced in US will see their prices rise, as it's linked to international prices. The last I read, US oil companies need oil to be in range of $70 for it to be profitable for them. So they are still pumping out lots of oil. But the democrats have been trying to shut down oil production and transportation, trying to prevent new oil drilling and laying pipelines. So that also artificially reduced the oil output in US too. Now they are mad someone is playing their own game at them.
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There is no capitalist free market in the US or anywhere else. We have rich and powerful corporations and interest groups that lobby, bribe and control govts in all sorts of ways.
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yensoy wrote: This is truly a big development. I always had a feeling that Americans weren't paying the MSRP on oil (spot price?) and had sweetheart deals with their suppliers. If that is no longer the case and they have to have the same kind of contracts as the rest of the world does, it would partly explain the galloping inflation seen in the US. A sensible country would try to address the problem by encouraging fuel efficient cars, hybrid/electric vehicles, public transport etc, and discouraging oil hogging overpowered, overweight yuppie trucks - but we are talking about an America which still defends guns.
Instead, the Americans are frothing at the mouth, calling Saudis names and threatening to stop arms supply. Saudis were doing Americans a favour by steadily buying overpriced arms in huge quantities. Very shrewdly they cut a peace deal with Israel and normalized their relation with Qatar, leaving Iran as the only possible adversary except Iran itself is weak and probably won't attempt any adventure. So the Saudis don't even need arms anymore, they have enough of a stockpile to last them a long time.
Look out for Unkil trying to foment a revolution in Saudi because the latter decided they won't sell cheap oil. OPEC was always a cartel, unfortunately Unkil has managed to piss off one after another oil producer - Iran, Venezuela, Angola, Libya, Russia and now Saudi. Iraq is in a disarray. Who's left? Norway? We may be heading into another oil shock like 1973.
The US has a huge proven reserve of oil and natural gas that it does not want to develop. It has always managed to get cheap oil from outside, and has been successful in managing the oil producing countries to trade in US $. US reserves are kept for the future when Arab oil runs out.
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https://themarket.ch/interview/russell- ... om-ld.7606

We Will See the Return of Capital Investment on a Massive Scale

In summer of 2020, you predicted that inflation was coming back and that we were looking at a prolonged period of financial repression. We currently experience 8+% inflation in Europe and the US. What’s your assessment today?

My forecast is unchanged: This is structural in nature, not cyclical. We are experiencing a fundamental shift in the inner workings of most Western economies. In the past four decades, we have become used to the idea that our economies are guided by free markets. But we are in the process of moving to a system where a large part of the allocation of resources is not left to markets anymore.
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^^

That means that as an investor, you best invest in jurisdictions where you plan to spend your retirement. To me, that means I don’t want to be invested in China at all, for example. The risks of getting stuck there are way too high, as the example of Russia has shown. Many investors today still pretend that we’re in the system that we had from 1980 to 2020. We’re not. We’re going through fundamental, lasting changes on many levels.
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Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman is seeking to humiliate Biden as part of a global power play

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/saudi-ruler-m ... 05730.html

potential realignment of parties in the Middle East?
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Cyrano wrote:They have a country but not a society
This usually happens if a person has a drug conviction, criminal record, or mental illness. The best solution is to get out of that shithole known as California.
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Cyrano wrote:FWIW Biden's 48 page national security strategy doc released today.

link to download pdf
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u ... 0.2022.pdf

New Pentagon Nuke strategy reneges on negative assurances given at time of NPT renewal.
The media talks like it's Biden campaign promise!


https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/pentagon-s- ... -1.1838278
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sad, when danda is applied assiduously, miracles can happen, not related to public sutai from saudia and faster-than-stepson-downhill-skiing by the empire of lies
also, most definitely this has absolutely nothing to do with XJP's upcoming visit to the kingdom, rumours of brics expansion, or a new petro$
https://www.dw.com/en/mbs-should-be-imm ... a-63805524
US President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday said that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's high office should protect him from lawsuits for his role in the killing of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a Saudi consulate Turkey.
Justice Department lawyers said that the executive branch of the US government, referring to the Biden administration, had "determined that defendant bin Salman, as the sitting head of state of a foreign government, enjoys head of state immunity from the jurisdiction of US courts as a result of that office."
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Djaehops· Nov 17

One of Germany's leading publications Der Spiegel reports that more germans now believe Russian media on Ukraine, the energy crisis, etc.

is the worm starting to turn.....



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@dauntingsh· 5h

After Republicans dominate house of representative, new speaker Kevin McCarthy removes poisonous senator Ilhan Omar (Radical Islamist) from foreign committee.

Now her comments won't make headlines in world media which was against Bharat & Israel. Good riddance
6:20 PM · Nov 22, 2022
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A very nice video discussing American (sub) urban development and it's implications that go far far beyond...
The entire series of videos is eminently watchable

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Cyrano wrote:A very nice video discussing American (sub) urban development and it's implications that go far far beyond...
The entire series of videos is eminently watchable
As an ex-architect and an ex-urban planner (transportation), I have vehemently disagreed with these guys. They are good/great but from a planner's point of view by restricting themselves to a few variables (of urban growth) they distort the picture and skew the narrative to support their view.

In that particular video, I asked them to provide how they computed the revenue. As an example, Best Buy, the city is supposed to get revenues across the board - brick, and internet. Did they include the internet revenue too? Did the city - when they conducted the study - have the ability to collect revenue from internet sales in that area?

The entire series of videos are flawed.

Unfortunate.

Added later:

As an FYI, when it comes to providing "services" cities have to follow rules, they cannot just do as they please. As an example, a downtown business area with a parking lot/capacity for 100 vehicles will get - by law - much fewer services (entries into their property, traffic lights, etc) than a Best Buy just down the street with a parking capacity of 500 vehicles.
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NRao garu,
Living in Europe, a lot of things said in the video make sense to me. Even without the sprawling suburbs à l'americain, with much denser urban zones, many cities and towns dont find easy to finance the upkeep of public infrastructure including sewage, water, playgrounds, green spaces, parks etc. That American cities have to raise massive debt for the same doesnt sound far fetched to me.

Having lived in India, then in the US for a while, and in Europe, huge US cities where you have to drive everywhere with only a mall for places where people can walk around and shop, avail services etc seem soulless, excessive and wasteful to me. The energy footprint per capita must be HUGE to heat/cool large individual homes, drive for nearly everything since public transport is inexistent and inefficient. Excepting few large east coast cities that followed the European model, many US cities offer the same "office tower downtown, poor old town, sprawling suburbia" model with the same chains of franchise food, shopping and entertainment and are indistinguishable. Since cities have nothing unique to offer, people have adopted a "suburban home - downtown office - strip/mall" lifestyle which has no charm or character.

Few countries, perhaps none actually have been able to replicate American style urbanism since its simply unaffordable, needs too much resources and energy, and the economics just dont work. The point not directly made in the video is that even America cannot afford this model but could build it thanks to huge govt and private debt, which is made possible by the global demand for dollars i.e. US govt bonds. Which is a luxury only the US can afford and we have discussed the reasons and consequences of that on this forum for years.

Build back better America hasn't taken off under Trump, or Biden, or their predecessors for decades since they have built so much gigantic infra that upkeep itself is a challenge, destroy/remodel/rebuild is unimaginable it seems to me.

Regarding local business revenues - as I understand, cities levy local taxes to all direct sales, and tax mail order/internet sales based on HQ address, so they do get a cut proportional to economic activity. Is there something not being accounted for? A mall/old city with densely packed businesses will generate more revenue therefore taxes per infra dollar spent compared to strip sprawls, dont they? Not sure how Internet sales matter. Perhaps you can explain.

Assume you are US based/worked in architecture and planning in the US? I try to compare the +/- of US/EU urban development models with the development India is going through (in my head) so your insights will be very interesting to me given your background.
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Adding to the above the distinct economic stratification and ghettoisation it creates which has deep social mix consequences (living together as a community) since it influences schooling, healthcare, essential services, whose impact can be hard to quantify.

I see European cities replicating suburbia model partially, and we also started having strips with standalone businesses surrounded by huge parking lots in the last 3 decades, many French cities have created such commercial zones (though modest compared to US standards) in the outer suburbs and businesses there struggle to generate footfalls. If there weren't selling cheap Chinese stuff clothing, furnishing and deco, DIY hardware stores and supermarkets - basically conspicuous and non-needed consumption, they will fold very quickly. Cities launching such projects count more on land sale/lease revenues from promoters - a windfall to settle longstanding debt and take on more new debt for upkeep and renewal than for the recurring tax revenue from the economic activity and jobs they create. This is an ongoing debate in France since most cities can do this once, may be twice - ultimately its unsustainable.

There are lessons for India here as well, especially given all the other endemic evils like apathy, corruption and inefficiency we suffer from, but we dream of similar debt fuelled consumption driven growth and prosperity.
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and the entire liberandu presstitute media in the US is quiet

Biden second-quarter job numbers off by 1 million, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank says

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... s-added-s/

December 16, 2022
The Biden administration vastly overstated its estimate that employers created more than 1 million jobs in the second quarter of this year, claiming historic job growth when in fact hiring had stalled, according to a new estimate.
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The US has a lot of Commie Indian desis who think themselves to be all that.
Here is the history of US-Indian race relations.

https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/hi ... ted-states

"The ‘Hindus’ and Anti-miscegenation Laws in the United States
From the early 20th century onwards, US Immigrants of South Asian origin—referred to as 'Hindus'—had to confront laws in many states against 'interracial' marriage. It wasn't until the late 1940s that such 'Jim Crow' legislation began to be rescinded."
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Asian Americans Debate Model Minority & Asian Hate

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Rony wrote:Asian Americans Debate Model Minority & Asian Hate
[youtube...]1FUue58GH8c[/youtube]
Interesting that there is no Pakistani-American on the panel. I wonder why.
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Rony wrote:Asian Americans Debate Model Minority & Asian Hate

[youtube]1FUue58GH8c[youtube]
Rony ji,


What an effing bunch of entitled and whining aholes barring a few exceptions like that Indian guy who spoke sensibly.

that beedi punk, definitely needs his clock cleaned, does he really not know how his relatives back home treat the Hindus and, hypocrite that he is, is demanding fair treatment in amrika..... and that too from the whites

What the abrahamics did to civilizational India for centuries and to a very large extent are still doing today via the commies, especially a civilizational India where these outsiders who were always the invaders and numerically at a disadvantage, weaponized themselves and established themselves to rule, and politically, violently, religiously and by inducements decimate the majority by successfully projecting the majority as inferior and not worthy of consideration.

they have no idea what racism, discrimination, and exclusion is really all about, as rammed down the throat of the civilizational India for centuries, where deliberately caused famines genocided tens upon tens of millions of industrious Indians who actually toiled to grow the very food that was stolen from them by the abrahamics.

we paid a horrendous price when we were forced to fight in their wars and paid over and over again to build their cities and enrich their peoples.

Many Indians actually migrated to escape these slyly embedded and artificially propagated divisions that restricted opportunities for them but unfortunately landed up in amreka where that are seeing once again, the very same walls being erected by the very same whites operating through the mechanism of toolkits like BLM, affirmative action etc to enforce white supremacist ideals through a global commie ecosystem.

this video actually set my teeth on edge....

but this video needed to be posted.
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Important discussion please watch

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Vayutuvan wrote:
Rony wrote:Asian Americans Debate Model Minority & Asian Hate
[youtube...]1FUue58GH8c[/youtube]
Interesting that there is no Pakistani-American on the panel. I wonder why.
Because there was already a Beedi guy to cover "muslim south asian" view.
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chetak wrote:
Rony wrote:Asian Americans Debate Model Minority & Asian Hate

[youtube]1FUue58GH8c[youtube]
Rony ji,


What an effing bunch of entitled and whining aholes barring a few exceptions like that Indian guy who spoke sensibly.

that beedi punk, definitely needs his clock cleaned, does he really not know how his relatives back home treat the Hindus and, hypocrite that he is, is demanding fair treatment in amrika..... and that too from the whites

What the abrahamics did to civilizational India for centuries and to a very large extent are still doing today via the commies, especially a civilizational India where these outsiders who were always the invaders and numerically at a disadvantage, weaponized themselves and established themselves to rule, and politically, violently, religiously and by inducements decimate the majority by successfully projecting the majority as inferior and not worthy of consideration.

they have no idea what racism, discrimination, and exclusion is really all about, as rammed down the throat of the civilizational India for centuries, where deliberately caused famines genocided tens upon tens of millions of industrious Indians who actually toiled to grow the very food that was stolen from them by the abrahamics.

we paid a horrendous price when we were forced to fight in their wars and paid over and over again to build their cities and enrich their peoples.

Many Indians actually migrated to escape these slyly embedded and artificially propagated divisions that restricted opportunities for them but unfortunately landed up in amreka where that are seeing once again, the very same walls being erected by the very same whites operating through the mechanism of toolkits like BLM, affirmative action etc to enforce white supremacist ideals through a global commie ecosystem.

this video actually set my teeth on edge....

but this video needed to be posted.
Chetak Ji,

Vice is America's Wire. Many second generation 'South Asian Indians' have similar views as that beedi guy. But unlike the beedi who was practicing taqiyya in front of the amriki liberals, many 'South Asian Indians' are actually holier than thou and sincere practitioners when it comes to these things. The IA guy in the panel who publicly identified himself as a Indian and a Hindu is an exception to this trend. The moderator who is also a second generation IA and identified himself as a 'South Asian' did a good job in how he conducted the debate though.
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https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1612247249484120064

Edward Snowden
@Snowden
After the last couple years, hard to ignore the feeling that the CIA's Color Revolutions are coming home.

We may come to regret spending decades normalizing the practice of disregarding elections, the precedent for ousting presidents.
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Rony wrote:Asian Americans Debate Model Minority & Asian Hate

The green shirt Bangladeshi guy seemed familiar to me and I finally found him after some digging.
He is Ziad Ahmed a Bangladeshi hater who lead the whole Holi against Hindutva campaign against India and Hindus in the USA.

https://www.opindia.com/2022/03/hinduph ... -campuses/

https://twitter.com/ziadahmed?lang=en
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vimal wrote:The green shirt Bangladeshi guy seemed familiar to me and I finally found him after some digging.
He is Ziad Ahmed a Bangladeshi hater who lead the whole Holi against Hindutva campaign against India and Hindus in the USA.

https://twitter.com/ziadahmed?lang=en
This man's twitter feed and his RTs are interesting. He is bootlicking the loudmouths and extreme radical faction of the Bern/AOC and a few other Champagne socialists. Probably wants to emulate AOC and get 10s of million USD into his pocket.
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So much so about the "free press" . . .

Journalist loses her job after reporting about abuse allegations in West Virginia's foster care and psychiatric facilities

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amelia-kni ... 00-10aaa3b
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https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news ... dia-policy
The State of US’ India policy
Cleo Paskal, January 8, 2023

The United States sends mixed messages to India.On the one hand, Washington highlighted the importance of India’s rise and leadership in its Indo-Pacific Strategy, designated India a Major Defense Partner, and renamed PACOM as INDOPACOM in recognition of India’s important role in the region.
On the other hand, in spite of statements about the importance of people-to-people relations, it currently takes years for someone in Delhi to get an appointment for a US visa, India’s efforts to feed and provide power for its people are described as being against the greater good and, well, Pakistan. So, what’s going on? Well, as with any country, there is more than one “United States”. So, for example, while the Department of Defense “gets” India, others seem to have different priorities. So, who is in the driver’s seat when it comes to shaping US foreign policy?
WHICH UNITED STATES?
Some, especially those in the Department of State, will say that say State alone and exclusively is responsible for foreign policy.
That is not legally accurate. In some areas, such as declaring war, Congress plays a role. And, within the executive branch, foreign policy is the responsibility of the President. Under the President there are a range of departments and agencies, including State. When more than one works together, that is called “interagency”, and there is a lot of interagency involved in foreign affairs. There is also the National Security Council that convenes, coordinates and advises.
But, as with any large organisation, there are laws, rules and regulations, and then there is the bareknuckle brutality of bureaucratic warfare. And State is very good at that.
State tends to see the world and shape foreign policy through the prism of “departmental equities” that can be more narrow and bureaucratic than the broader US national interest, including but certainly not limited to relations with India.
On such a deep, wide-ranging and important file as India, there should be broad interagency mechanisms not controlled by State or any single department’s interagency process or authority.
Not only is that what the National Security Council does when the White House remembers why it was created, the Department of Defense often has better relations with its counterparts in India than State. Defense, which has a similar understand of strategic threats as India, has good on the ground understanding of India’s operating environment.
Yet, a State desk officer might be making decisions that can negate years of relationship building by other departments.
This is a structural problem.State may be engaging with India, saying it is doing so on behalf of the US government, but at times the actions seem designed to control the processes to preserve “State equities” rather than US equities.
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Gautam
Not very convincing, but there it is.
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Re: Understanding the US - Again

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Here we go again:
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... s-shooting
10 people killed, 10 injured in mass shooting at Monterey Park dance studio
SUMMER LIN, JEONG PARK, REBECCA ELLIS, RICHARD WINTON, LIBOR JANY , RONG-GONG LIN II, JAN. 22, 2023

Ten people were killed and at least 10 others were injured when a gunman opened fire at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park on Saturday night, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.
The mass shooting, one of California’s worst in recent memory, happened in the 100 block of West Garvey Avenue at around 10:22 p.m., sheriff’s Capt. Andrew Meyer told reporters Sunday morning. The shooting occurred on Lunar New Year’s Eve about seven miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
There was scant information on the gunman: male and still at large. There is no known motive, nor a description of the shooter. A law enforcement source briefed on the matter said the gunman used a high powered assault rifle at close range.
“When officers arrived on scene, they observed numerous individuals, patrons ... pouring out of the location, screaming. The officers made entry to the location and located additional victims,” Meyer said.
Firefighters pronounced 10 of the victims dead at the scene, Meyer said. At least 10 others were taken to numerous local hospitals, and their conditions range from stable to critical.
Meyer said investigators don’t know whether the victims were targeted. He said it was too early to know whether the shooting was a hate crime. “We will look at every angle,” he said.
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Gautam
Writing from boring Kolkata.
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