Bharat Rakshak

Vayutuvan wrote:

UlanBatori wrote:She went to Georgetown but bought her degree from UPenn?

Yes, good catch. Wharton, Haavaad, etc. have seats set aside for business family nanha munna.

mahadevbhu wrote:


I would like to see
1. A US MMRCA -- Chini folks don't like it when they see US arms being sold to India.

2. More "strategic" deals - nuclear engine designs for subs.

Sanders tweeted on Wednesday, “Over 200 million Muslims call India home. Widespread anti-Muslim mob violence has killed at least 27 and injured many more. Trump responds by saying, ‘That’s up to India’. This is a failure of leadership on human rights.”

OmkarC wrote:

Manish_Sharma wrote:
Hopefully Trump wins again. In case Dems like Bernie, Biden or Clinton wins.... they will create big trouble

Buttigieg has been neutral in the Indo-Pak discussion AFAIK, unlike Bernie, Biden or Warren..

India is an important friend and partner of the United States, which is why I’m concerned about the ongoing political detentions, communications blackouts, and other steps being taken by the government that could threaten its longstanding democratic traditions.

KJo wrote:This clown must never become POTUS.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 350563.cms

Sanders tweeted on Wednesday, “Over 200 million Muslims call India home. Widespread anti-Muslim mob violence has killed at least 27 and injured many more. Trump responds by saying, ‘That’s up to India’. This is a failure of leadership on human rights.”

KJo wrote:This clown must never become POTUS.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 350563.cms

Sanders tweeted on Wednesday, “Over 200 million Muslims call India home. Widespread anti-Muslim mob violence has killed at least 27 and injured many more. Trump responds by saying, ‘That’s up to India’. This is a failure of leadership on human rights.”

Manish_Sharma wrote:

mahadevbhu wrote:


I would like to see
1. A US MMRCA -- Chini folks don't like it when they see US arms being sold to India.

2. More "strategic" deals - nuclear engine designs for subs.

Also in case we have a Dem president like Bernie Sanders OR Chelsea Clinton THEN THROUGH SANCTIONS THEY CAN cripple IAF easily, may force us to submit to porkis

Bart S wrote:^This is what people said of Trump last time around. Don't take anything for granted.

Rudradev wrote:ALERT: Need some support on a New York Magazine forums discussion. You can log in with a Facebook or Google ID to participate.

LINK: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02 ... l#comments

India is expected to be a big beneficiary of the ongoing trade battle between US and China. Evidence of this trend is already visible from foreign direct investment (FDI) pipeline doubling to $175 billion from last year’s $87 billion. Given the rise in protectionism and tariff barriers, corporations are looking at shifting supply chains . UBS, the world’s largest wealth manager, in its US CFO survey found that 76% of the respondents have either shifted their supply chain or are planning to shift in response to protectionist policies such as trade tariffs and India continues to be among the top destinations in Asia for manufacturing shift.

While FDI in India has increased in the last one year, there has been interest from global companies to set up manufacturing facilities for not only electronics but also heavy manufacturing as well. India’s current FDI pipeline has doubled and key focus sectors include construction, electronics, infrastructure, textiles, food processing, pharma among others. Even while analyzing the earnings transcripts of 44 global companies there has been increased references to ‘India’ and ‘trade war’ and spot nuances in language signify a potential relocation of manufacturing to India.

mappunni wrote:That's the President addressing a rally in South Carolina.

https://youtu.be/Wd-8LpKiGGo

Pete Buttigieg, the former Indiana mayor who made an ambitious run for president, has announced he is ending his campaign for the White House.

The 38-year-old became the first openly gay presidential candidate from a major party when he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination.

But despite a successful start, his campaign lost momentum in recent weeks.

His decision to drop out comes ahead of a key day on Tuesday in the Democratic race to take on Trump.

Fourteen states will vote on Super Tuesday, by the end of which staunch left-winger Bernie Sanders could have an unbeatable lead and be a step closer to the nomination.

His departure leaves six Democrats still in the running - Joe Biden, Mr Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Tulsi Gabbard.

Yagnasri wrote:Now Biden and DT may be the race. DMC bent on keeping Burnee out at any cost so they have selected Biden. Pete and Amy bibi have withdrawn. Warren will keep in the race to ensure Burnee do not get out sight majority to win in the first round at the convention and Super Delegates will have their chance in the second round. NC has not done yet. It will have new rulers and ideas to keep Burnee out.

Biden unlikely to be powerful candidate who can take on DT and win.

I was on Capitol Hill all last week and one thing is clear Rep. Jayapal's anti-India H. Res. 745 is gaining momentum.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) is scheduled to hold a vote on Wednesday, March 4th on a series of bills. Right now, H. Res. 745 is not on the agenda, but Rep. Jayapal and her allies are pushing HFAC Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) hard to vote on this bill.

We have to stop them now because if H. Res. 745 does get added to the agenda then it's already too late.

Click here to Stop Bad, Anti-India, Anti-Hindu Resolution H. Res. 745
https://www.votervoice.net/mobile/HAF/C ... 29/Respond

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic presidential aspirant for the 2020 Elections, has condemned ‘anti-Muslim violence’ in India and committed herself to “fighting for the rights and freedom of the people of Kashmir”. The Senator from Massachusetts hasn’t been performing very well in the Democratic Primaries thus far and going into Super Tuesday, the momentum is decisively against her.

The comments against India were made in a new plan Elizabeth Warren released on Tuesday for Muslim Communities in the USA. The abrogation of Article 370 and Kashmir figure into the political equations of the USA because Radical Islamists in the country consider Kashmir to be a matter that concerns the Ummah. After Vermont Senator and Warren’s rival in the Democratic Primaries, Bernie Sanders, made a pro-Jihad stance regarding Kashmir at an event organized by the ISNA which has links to terrorism, it appears Warren has decided to tread a similar trajectory.
Elizabeth Warren said in her plan, “Elizabeth knows we must stand up for those who can’t stand up for themselves. That includes speaking out against China’s cruel, bigoted treatment of its Uighur minority and to hold China accountable for its abuses; fighting for reconciliation and accountability for the atrocities committed against the Rohingya in Burma; condemning anti-Muslim violence in India and fighting for the rights and freedom of the people of Kashmir; and holding allies like Saudi Arabia to account for abuses of human rights.” As anyone aware of the nature of Kashmiri separatism knows fully well, it is Jihad that is being waged against India and any support for it is equivalent to supporting Radical Islamic Terrorism.

The Massachusetts Senator’s plan for American Muslims appears to be a desperate attempt to pander to the one community that had been left out of her pandering efforts thus far. As part of her pandering initiative, Warren had earlier announced that if she’s elected president, then any future Secretary of Education will need the approval of a transgender child she met last year. She had said that the transgender child will interview the potential Secretary of Education before any appointment is made. As it so happened, it didn’t help her with her voters and she continues to fail at winning the support of the electorate.

Elizabeth Warren has also lied about her race in the past. She claimed that she was Native American in order to gain employment as a professor at the Harvard Law Faculty. An exhaustive Boston Globe investigation in September 2018 reported that Warren’s “claim to Native American ethnicity was never considered by the Harvard Law faculty, which voted resoundingly to hire her, or by those who hired her to four prior positions at other law schools.”

Executive Summary

Inadvertent escalation risks in South Asia are concerning, and likely to recur. Even in a limited engagement, the risk of India-Pakistan conflict escalation is high because India—perceiving immutable Pakistan support for terrorism—seeks disproportionality in a crisis while Pakistan seeks conventional reciprocity. Both sides routinely miscalculate the other’s resolve and maintain incompatible theories of de-escalation.

Studying and learning from past crises does not ensure prevention. The quality of learning varies significantly by country, government, and contingent political interests. Learning the “right” lessons may not necessarily translate into improved decision-making. States can also draw lessons that make them more risk-prone than risk-averse.

With Pakistan, India has traded strategic restraint for strategic risk manipulation. India has been “cumulatively emboldened” by the absence of international push-back to behave more assertively towards Pakistan, perhaps risking a commitment trap even as it retains calibrated restraint and bargaining ability when it comes to friction with China.

Deterrence and crisis instability will likely intensify alongside further strategic and conventional force modernization. Advances in precision and standoff weapons capabilities enable India and Pakistan to satisfy public demands for retaliation and demonstrations of resolve, even without results. Their incomplete adaptation of counterforce capabilities could stoke false optimism and foster risky decision-making.

Future crises can escalate sharply and rapidly, and will be less open to crisis management. Balakot was a watershed moment with several thresholds crossed more rapidly than expected. New technologies compress decision-making timelines, reducing space for de-escalation or third-party intervention. A less active or impartial U.S. role further compounds this challenge.

A host of asymmetries limit the scope of bilateral confidence-building and third-party mediation, despite U.S. stakes and a growing Chinese role. Bilateral confidence-building measures (CBMs) are hampered by asymmetries in power, interest, domestic institutions, conceptions of the status quo, and relations with great powers. Third-party involvement is constrained by asymmetric demand from the two sides, perceptions of partiality, and insufficient leverage over nuclear-armed states.

Mort Walker wrote:Can we quit talking about the F-35? Move it to the MRCA thread in the Mil Forum.

Rudradev wrote:Pocahontas goes Full Jihadi

Amber G. wrote: Given that Warren's son-in-law (Tyagi) is Indian this makes her ignorance even more bizarre.. .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Warren_Tyagi

Rony wrote:

Amber G. wrote: Given that Warren's son-in-law (Tyagi) is Indian this makes her ignorance even more bizarre.. .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Warren_Tyagi

It could also be that her son-in-law is one of those Ro Khanna, Pramila Jayapal types and she was feeded more ignorance. Frankly, both in US and UK, its those leftie Indian types who are more pain in the ass than the WASP folks.
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