Thread by @dravirmani

True, but there is a fine line between friendly advice and #Information #Warfare. My friends advise me privately and politely, not criticise me on social media, or give me advice on TV interviews! Those who did the latter are no longer my friends 🤡.

https://twitter.com/YusufDFI/status/1496000728363835394

#PIP says: “We 😍🥰😘🐕🐩🦮”

https://twitter.com/ravirockks/status/1496009278536179713

3/pip #PIP: “The concept of “Friendship” in IR has been the bane of Indian foreign policy; Indians get emotionally committed to it, while great powers use it as an instrument of moral/intellectual coercion!” Asymmetric tests of “logical consistency” are another tool of coercion

https://twitter.com/dravirmani/status/1496011415811166211

4/pip Few cntrys have full understanding or strategic empathy for LMIC India, which has faced two declared enemies, both nuclear powers, which have collaborated in nuclear-missile proliferation, and have repeatedly attacked India through conventional & unconventional means(70yrs)

5/pip Sadly our own intellectuals & media, instead of explaining our situation to the World, take pride in propagating the West’s #moral #lectures, highlighting every minor #logical #inconsistency in Indian policy (but not of others) & every ltl mis-step of Indian foreign policy

6/pip India will surely modify its foreign policy as world changes, but not because of (self serving) lectures from West's hypocritical moral police or the orders of US (factless) intellectual GloboCops

https://twitter.com/MohanCRaja/status/1495932721839079424

7/pip #HBYN Though it was pretty clear that Iraq didn't have nuclear weapons,I never criticised USA for invading Iraq(as punishment for invading Kuwait). What I vociferously criticised was t incredibly stupid dissolution of the Bath party, Iraqi army, police & admin after victory

8/pip People who have never condemned Pakistan (in UN/USA) for its 50yrs of #Grey #War against India, want India to explicitly condemn Russia for its 50 day #Grey #War against Ukraine! The double standards don’t surprise those who survived colonialism (or neo-colonialism)

9/pip Given that Ukrainian crisis has revealed 100s of India experts, #PIP “advises GOI to sub-contract, thru a competitive tender, (1) Definition of India’s national interests, (2) Defn of Foreign & National security policy for achieving (1), & (3) Defence of Indian territory🤡”

10/pip #Realism #HBYN Those upset by India’s refusal to criticise Russia at the UN, should recall that #GOI never criticised #USA’s disasterous 2021 exit from Afghanistan, despite a previously expressed view that US exit from Afghanistan would be terrible for Afghans & the region

11/pip Since World War II, there is only one country that stood up to a #tyrant (instrumental in killing ~million people & raping ~1/2 mi women), despite threats from two nuclear powers. 99% of the World doesn’t know (🙈🙉🙊) or care who it was. Why should we care about #tyranny?