What Putin has managed is, is after ages of lethargy and indeciveness, to bring about a level of Western unity on how to deal with an adversary.

This is the main takeaway from this war.

This will also be the template for the future against other adversaries.
Xi will be getting a message loud and clear.

It also means that PRC will now try to make itself resistant against these pressures.
India needs to learn the same lessons.

Whereas China has its domain of info warfare completely under its control, in India, it seems we are the world's most open city with zero fortifications.

Not just that we don't own our own social media platforms, we don't even have m
The situation in India is so dire that not only that we don't own our own media platforms, we don't even have more than a couple of opinion-shaping media groups, which are willing to carry the national cause.

The national cause is still fighting to get its voice heard.
All the huge twitter handles, who speak in favor of the national cause in India can be shut down like in 5 seconds.

Just see how RT and other news sources have been curtailed in EU.

So this is something India needs to think about seriously.

#LessonsOfWar
Imagine if youtube, prominent search engines, twitter, facebook, etc were to block Russian news media, Indians will have no idea, what was going on from the Russian perspective.

The few websites, which remain can be crippled using DDoS attacks.

Total blackout!

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In the years ahead, India faces three challenges.

1) Hardware Challenge

includes: raw military might, technological superiority, AI, space satellites, heavy machinery, infrastructure, manufacturing capacity, server farms, etc
2) Operating System Challenge

includes: UNSC, world banking system, social media platforms, international sports bodies, Internet DNS, online commerce hegemons, intellectual property rights, etc
3) Social Software

includes: non-native languages, western entertainment, foreign streaming platforms, missionary networks, non-Indic religions, NGOs, colonial mentality, bureaucratic lethargy, corruption, increasing promiscuity, decay in family values, etc.
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Here is my try at analyzing Putin. What are his motives? What is that what everybody may be ignoring or just not seeing.

Putin must have played this out in his mind. So here goes.

Aim 1: He does not just want part of Ukraine. He wants all of it. Why?
Putin's motive is not just to conquer land. Russia is big enough. Putin wants Russia to again be a central European power with borders with Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania.

Putin does not want buffer states between Central Europe and Russia.
Aim 2: Putin sees Ukraine as part of the Russian civilization, and cannot see it being turned against Russians. So Ukraine would be totally Russified. That means those, who feel Ukraine-nationalist, will not be acceptable in Russified-Ukraine.
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Feb 26
In the next two days world history will be determined.

1) Either Ukraine falls to Putin and Russia remains in SWIFT, resulting in Russia again becoming a player in Central Europe, leading ultimately to a weakening of Anglo-American and WEF-Liberal grip on politics of the West;OR
2) Russia is cut off from SWIFT, and Russia is enmeshed is a long-lasting urban-guerilla fighting between Russian occupiers vs Ukranian neo-Nazi militias supported by the West, which leads to Russia investing more forces to Ukraine.

This would ultimately lead to Russia's ...
total dependence on China for market, for banking services, etc.

Yes, someday may come then, when Putin AND Russian Federation collapse.

China will then take over the whole of Eastern Russia which lies in Asia, in order to "ensure security".

As a bonus, Central Asian countries
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Aug 16, 2021
I think, Pakistan may not really have thought this through.

Many of the fighters who have gone to Afghanistan now, were earlier Pakistan's cannon-fodder. They're now in Afghanistan, and thus aren't available to Pakistan any further.

In Afghanistan, they have the goodies & power
There is no incentive for them to come and fight for Pakistan against India in Kashmir.

Pakistan may not have the same level of control on political messaging in various seminaries in Afghanistan, where they can spread the same anti-India hate as happened in Pakistan.
Effectively, Taliban have been freed from Pakistani oversight and control.

Sure, in Afghanistan, Taliban will do mayhem as per their ideology, but politically Taliban is now free.
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Aug 16, 2021
Some thoughts on Afghanistan moving forward.

1. Taliban in Afg is reality.

2. Neither Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, USA nor Turkey will be trying to dislodge it. There's no opposition game left anymore.

3. Afghans have been betrayed, ANA units have crossed over to Taliban.
4. It is of no use to try to deny the Taliban recognition from our side. They ARE in power.

5. Our recognition or lack of it, doesn't make them weaker. They have access to Pak, Iran, China, Russia, etc, who can meet all their diplomatic and investment requirements.
6. If India had a credible game in Afghanistan, then it would have been different. Then we may have supported other groups. But we don't. We lack land access. We can't really help anybody there.
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India will give refuge to the religious minorities fleeing Afghanistan, notably to Hindus and Sikhs.

India will also give refuge to those Afghans, who have shown friendship and cooperation to India in building Afghanistan, so that they survive to again rebuild Afghanistan.
Taliban's reign comes. It is apparently unavoidable. But another day will again come, when Afghans will return to the land. That day will require the knowledge, skills and services of patriotic Afghans in exile. For that day, they need to survive.
Afghans need to survive to tell the story of Pakistani treachery and Pakistani support to terror and rape.
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