The #USA killed #India’s #nuclear physicist #HomiBhabha and Prime Minister #LalBahadurShastri—confessions of Robert Crowley, then second in command of the CIA's Directorate of Operations (in charge of covert operations) recorded in a book by Gregory Douglas.
Via @MeghBulletin
Pertinent to note here that the confession by the CIA officer indicates the #US government in 1966 wilfully murdered 117 civilians on @airindiain flight 101 just so they could kill #HomiBhabha .
An act of State sponsored #terrorism by #WashingtonDC any way you look at it .
A lot of water has flown under the bridge since then . Every nation has national imperatives that overrule previous issues. We've let this slide just as we've let the 1971 Enterprise incident go .
True, the #USA in the 1960's & 1970's was a beast . #WashingtonDC then dropped an incredible 270million cluster bombs on civilians in #Laos just because they could do so. Organised coups & insurgencies across Latin America & Asia that killed thousands
It is pertinent here to remember the Blood telegram as well, written by the US ambassador in #Dhaka asking #WashingtonDC to prevent further genocide in #Bangladesh .In response the #US govt then just sent more arms to the Pakistani perpetrators .
BJD arrangement, Mamata gets to run the state while BJP gets her tacit support for MP seats from Bengal to go to BJP. Win Win for leadership of both parties , for the common karyakartas it brings the promise of relative safety .
Secures Mamata from her Nephew's machinations.
Learnt today that #alexanderthegreat of #macedonia#Greece had an #Indian guru the Greeks called "Kalanos" some say this was because he was a devotee of Kali .This #Hindu#Brahmin & Yogi stayed with Alexander till he was 73 & died by voluntarily walking into his own pyre
Ptolemy actually built his pyre & records the death as having taken place in Susa in 323BC .Kalanos distributed all the costly gifts he got from the king to the people and wore just a garland of flowers and chanted Vedic hymns as he walked into the Pyre.
He presented his horse to one of his Greek pupils named Lysimachus. He did not flinch as he burnt to the astonishment of those who watched. Although Alexander was not personally present at time of his immolation, his last words to Alexander were "We shall meet in Babylon".
A #mustread analysis by @vgmenon99 Sir on the sinking of the #Moskva ,he uses Naval analysis to discount the possibility that the #BlackSea fleet flagship could have sunk due to #neptune missile attacks & raises the possibility of a #submarine attack.
@vgmenon99 Commodore Menon brings out the possibility of a torpedo being fired at the #Moskva , leaves us with only 4 options . 1) A #Russian Kilo fired the torpedo . 2) A #Turkish SSK was the culprit. 3) An SSK/SSN that transited the Bosporus in secret. 4) Airdropped torpedo from an MPA
@vgmenon99 On that last point there is a lot of P3C traffic in the general vicinity of the #MoskvaDown situation.
65 Arsenal - a storage base for #artillery and #rocket ammunition built in 1918 in #Balakleya to supply the #RedArmy. After the collapse of the #USSR , the arsenal was handed over to the #Ukrainian Armed Forces. The #Russian Army has taken control of the arsenal.
This is being reported as one of the largest heavy artillery storages in all of #Ukraine
#Russia posting imagery of Enormous quantity of ammunition left behind by retreating #Ukrainian forces at #Balakleya .
I had written about the prepositioning of such stores by #Ukraine much earlier .
Lankans voted for #Rajapakshas knowing very well what they did in the past, including corruption, selling out national assets to #China, #dynastic politics and all.
They still voted for them because Rajapakshas promised things they could not refuse.
1. Their #GST, called VAT Tax, on all products was reduced to 8%, thus making everything cheaper in one stroke. (It also killed the govt revenue). People loved things getting cheaper.
2. The minimum #incometax threshold was changed from 5 Lakhs per annum to 30 Lakhs! Very few earned more than 30L!
A very large part of the population became #tax exempt. This was very popular among the salaried class.
Fact is when the #RussiaUkraineWar war started Ukraine had an advantage in terms of manpower, armour & artillery present In the theatre. They also had a contiguous land border with Europe allowing " volunteers" & armament to be brought at will.
Yet NATO blinked on direct entry.
Fact is Russian forces didn't or were unable to cut access to internet , electricity ,rail & even sir connectivity primarily to western Ukraine. Fact is Russian forces for whatever reason didn't use strategic bombing as a doctrine .
Despite all of the above the Russians have made tangible gains wherever the war has actually taken place as in open conflict with multiple villages & towns primarily in the South & East taken .
Taiwan will be a whole different ball game .