Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015

[uddu]

Why Trump's tariff chaos actually makes sense (big picture)

[drnayar]

[Haresh]

Riding The Tiger: Why The Anglosphere Should Be Wary of India
A tale of Hindu nationalism and H-1Bs

https://knightsofthegreenshield.substac ... nglosphere

[Vayutuvan]

@Haresh ji, I read his latest rant on substack on the effects of an Indo-Pakistani war on Britain. This fellow is 100% cuckoo.

[Vayutuvan]

An India-Pakistan War could break British politics
Conflict in South Asia is one of the biggest threats to our domestic security
SAM BIDWELL
APR 17, 2025

https://substack.com/@knightofthegreens ... -161558260

[sanjaykumar]

Remarkable. No introspection on britains’s role in this far off ethnic conflict.


Most of the article is unexceptionable. In Canada we can see how the Khalistani agenda has hijacked the political discourse.

I do not think there will be a war. Unless Pakistani generals think they have looted that benighted nation sufficient for their seven succeeding generations.

Bidwell is very careful to give British alienation of its Muslims a wide berth. No introspection on why Muslims seem to be so angry in Britain. And why Indians are generally quite happy to be there.

But that would be telling. In all three senses of the word.

[Tanaji]

Riding The Tiger: Why The Anglosphere Should Be Wary of India
A tale of Hindu nationalism and H-1Bs

https://knightsofthegreenshield.substac ... nglosphere

That article and the other one was such a tiring read and in the end I had to start skimming it due to the verbiage. The author comes off as one of those anti-vaxxers on Facebook that write “scholarly” articles but are based on selective numbers and no grounding in the cause and effect. Had this been submitted to any half decent professor at even under grad review as an assignment, it would rate a C with suggestions on remedial course on writing.

The hypocrisy, dual standards and lack of history is breath taking. The whole “nuclear family” argument was

I blame Hareshji for losing half an hour of my life that I shall never get back

[Haresh]

Riding The Tiger: Why The Anglosphere Should Be Wary of India
A tale of Hindu nationalism and H-1Bs

https://knightsofthegreenshield.substac ... nglosphere

I blame Hareshji for losing half an hour of my life that I shall never get back

it is very tiresome.
But what I found really offensive was just the entire lack of introspection.

He complains about how Indians basically look after themselves, everyone does.
The comments about the Nijjar murder, laying the blame on the Indian govt as if it is a fact, no one has been found guilty as far as I know, has the link been proven ? If it has, why is the international media so quite ?

Then the comments about the Uniform Civil code, why can Western nations have one law for all, but not others ?

It is basically a complaint that the "dark folks" are getting too uppity and they can no longer be controlled.

[sanjaykumar]

Christian’s and Muslims. Ame very close to a civil in Britain a few short months ago.

The author needs to continue his deep researches in other localities than Lecicester.

[uddu]

J Sai Deepak । Muslims not in The Independence Movement

[ricky_v]

an extremely exhaustive look at space weaponisation capabilities, tracking and overall aerospace analysis

https://www.csis.org/analysis/space-thr ... sment-2025

https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws. ... OVb35jwkU5

WELCOME TO THE 2025 SPACE THREAT ASSESSMENT

by the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). This resource for policymakers and the public leverages open-source information to assess key developments in foreign counterspace weapons. Drawing on eight years of collected data and analyses, this series describes trends in the development,
testing, and use of counterspace weapons and enables readers to develop a deeper understanding of threats to U.S. national security interests in space.


Since the publication of the 2024 Space Threat Assessment, there have been
few headline-grabbing counterspace developments. No nation was known
to have tested or used kinetic anti-satellite missiles, commonly called direct
ascent anti-satellite (DA ASAT) weapons. There was no public indication that
any nation tested or used counterspace weapons such as laser dazzlers or
directed energy weapons. While Russia’s pursuit of a nuclear anti-satellite
capability topped the news last year, no information has publicly surfaced
revealing how close Russia might be to launching this system, though the
United States and its international partners remain concerned that Russia
could decide to deploy such a weapon.1
But a closer look reveals that the past year, from the perspective of counter
space developments, has been anything but uneventful. Rather than entirely
new developments, the past year mostly witnessed a continuation of the
worrisome trends discussed in prior reports, notably widespread jamming
and spoofing of GPS signals in and around conflict zones, including near and
in Russia and throughout the Middle East.2 Chinese and Russian satellites in
both low Earth orbit (LEO) and geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) continue to
display more and more advanced maneuvering capabilities, demonstrating
operator proficiency and tactics, techniques, and procedures that can be
used for space warfighting and alarming U.S. and allied officials.3 Finally,
U.S. companies providing a commercial space service to government users,
particularly defense and military ones, remain squarely in the crosshairs of
nation states, with Russia in particular vocal about its intention to consider


commercial assets used by the U.S. military as legitimate targets.4

[drnayar]

Houthis attacked Ben gurion airport with ballistic missiles, despite extensive bombing by us navy. !!..

[uddu]

Cross posting from Modi 3.0
EAM at Arctic Circle India Forum 2025.

[Manish_P]

Houthis attacked Ben gurion airport with ballistic missiles, despite extensive bombing by us navy. !!..

Just goes to prove the importance of having lots and lots of missiles, Smart and dumb, in your inventory.

We are going to need them

[Vayutuvan]

We need a lot of expendable drones too.

[A_Gupta]

"The US-Israel security relationship is built upon the idea of Israel maintaining a Qualitative Military Edge (QME), which is the ability to deter threats and rapidly achieve superiority in battle. The US actively works to ensure Israel's QME through various means, including providing advanced weapons systems, security assistance, and pre-positioning military equipment."

--- an Indian commentator believes that Trump, in his recent Saudi/West Asia visit, has sold out QME, and Israel is anxious.

Bloomberg on the topic:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ulf-states

The deals themselves appear to be so large — $142 billion in arms to Saudi Arabia and $243 billion to Qatar, with a focus on defense — that some in Israel fear they could reduce the longstanding US guarantee of its regional military superiority, the so-called Qualitative Military Edge.

[A_Gupta]

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump- ... n-command/

The Trump administration is planning to move Greenland from the purview of U.S. European Command to U.S. Northern Command, several U.S. officials told CBS News.

Moving Greenland to Northern Command, which is in charge of defending the homeland, is a symbolic statement suggesting a view of Greenland as more a part of the defense of the U.S. than of Europe. In the eyes of the U.S., the move treats Greenland more like Canada and less like a part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

[A_Gupta]

In its June 2025 Global Economic Prospects, the World Bank says “Most of the developing world is turning into a development-free zone”. “Except for China, it could take these economies about two decades to recoup the losses of the 2020s”.

(This does not include India)