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May 10 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
BJP dolts as usual are seeing the mirth in Bhagwant calling Harvard - Hayward. Obviously they’re clueless as to what AAP is doing - hijacking all teachers & professors through the lure of foreign junkets, fellowships and reciprocal sweet deals with foreign universities for
Obliging. They’re doing in 1 month what Modi hasn’t done in 8 years: understand and capture the narrative setting machine through nepotism disguised as capacity building. The joke is on you - not on Bhagwant. You’ll get retweets - he’ll get to write history.
This seems to be a huge lacuna with the BJP - what Rahul Gandhi is to Electoral Politics, Modi is to Institutional Politics - clueless, doctrinaire and always on the back foot. This is the reason #TheKashmirFiles had that like “Sarkar unka hai, par system hamara hai”
Look at these Punjab “teachers” jostling for food - now imagine what lengths they’d be willing to go for fellowships/junkets abroad

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May 11
Curious. 1) first the “fact-check” assumes the hostage taking was fake despite significant evidence to the contrary 2) it claims some channels used “pro Russia” reporters despite @gauravcsawant & @SwetaSinghAT verifying heavy 🇺🇦 spin and disinformation
By Ukraine on the Ground and NDTV for example blatantly peddling propaganda in this tweet 👇🏾. Yet it chooses “disinformation” selectively. Moreover it asserts that private opinions “damage indian neutrality”. To note @LogicallyAI has just received 50 million from a UK based VC.
Cumulatively it is safe to say that this is another foreign funded propaganda operation masquerading as a fact check. Worth checking what shady proxy funded crap research 👇🏾 are up to. All up @aiyannaishaana @Lyric_Jain & @atandra_ray are clueless about definitions and shoddy Image
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Apr 4
Kashmir and Ukraine: a thread
1 During the partition of India in 1947 most Muslim majority areas went to Pakistan and most Hindu majority ones to India. The princes were given the option of Independence and the king whose population was mostly Muslim chose Independence. In
2 October 1947 - pakistan’s equivalent of “crimean little green men” - afghan tribals and regular pakistan army dressed as tribals invaded in response to communal violence - not unlike the burning alive of 50 odd Russians in Odessa. India intervened - like NATO in Ukraine it was
3 an active intervention. India also took the case to the UN, where a sovereign state named Kashmir, whose legal authority the King, had invited in India to help the legal & lawful government fight a 6th Jan style coup coupled with an invasion. Just like Ukraines desire to join
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Mar 23
THREAD: 1 I’m going to give everyone a run down of the Russian nuclear doctrine - especially since clueless Garry is busy tweeting about it. First please read the doctrine here kremlin.ru/acts/bank/45562. Second please understand chess and nuclear are very different.
2 read this part of the doctrine “preventing the escalation of hostilities and (ensuring) their termination on terms acceptable to the Russian Federation”. What does this mean? This is a carryover of old Soviet doctrine that sees nuclear weapons as a natural escalation - where
3 if you found yourself overwhelmed or at a disadvantage you’d actually use weapons (signalling, battlefield counterforce to begin with i suspect). This doesn’t preclude a rationale very similar to the US one for Hiroshima & Nagasaki (to reduce American casualties).
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Mar 3
Please note this person’s mother is a Congressi. @ndtv apparently didn’t even feel the need for a basic conflict of interest check? Typical trash reporting
Also note the criminal cases here: source myneta.info/bih2010/candid…
Simple question @SumitraKumariY2 if your daughter didn’t want a free ticket why was she being so obsequious here? You didn’t have money to bring her home? The link above says you have enough assets to pay for her return
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Mar 3
THREAD: Over the last few days I’ve obviously been talking to friends in Moscow, mostly upset & in shock. But what’s been revealing is talking to friends in Europe. There’s a clear attitudinal difference between politicians & bureaucrats. The politicians I’ve not been able to
2 have a proper conversation with. It gets choked up with too much emotion and fury to the point that it’s just futile continuing the conversation. It becomes sterile after a point. With bureaucrats there’s a pervasive sense of fear. Mind you there’s 2 kind of bureaucrats in
3 Europe, the politically aligned ones & the career bureaucrats. Curiously despite some of their public posturing, they agree the sanctions have gone too far. Too far not in terms of self harm, but in terms of having little to no leverage to now elicit good behaviour from Russia
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Mar 1
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1 Lots of misdirected criticism of @narendramodi sending @HardeepSPuri @JM_Scindia @Gen_VKSingh & @KirenRijiju to the #Ukriane border. Here’s why this is a necessary decision & we should thank the PM. First remember how there are lots of requests for preferential treatment Image
2 clearly there are only ambassadors & DCMs on the border, who though much appreciated, can still not get preferential treatment. Having a Union Cabinet Minister on each of the international borders means that preferential treatment of Indians becomes automatic due to protocol
3 second - we’ve seen Ukrainian border guards beat up indian students. This step acts as a check & puts the Ukrainian officials on notice in a non aggressive way. It also automates preferential treatment of students in the vicinity of the border. Third & most importantly, border
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