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S.L. Kanthan
@Kanthan2030
Columnist, blogger, podcaster. Less ideology, more facts. Host of Geopolitics Demystified: https://t.co/BBwFJ9L0hs
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Sep 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Every Indian should know the truth about America’s big con job in Ukraine.

Support and arm Nazis… break the promise about NATO not expanding… overthrow democratically elected leaders in Ukraine… wage proxy war against Russia…

My thread 🧵 Hardcore Nazis in Ukrainian government
Jul 29 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The road to free market was not easy in China.

Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening up started in 1978.

1. But China did not right away embrace private enterprises and capitalism.

2. Private enterprises were illegal and not even officially recognized until 1988! (A few Special Economic Zones like Shenzhen had more freedom)Image 3. Some entrepreneurs in the 1980s were allowed to run private businesses under the "red hat" -- i.e., pretending to be collectives or government-owned.

4. 1980s: There were also high taxes and numerous restrictions such as maximum 5 employees in a private enterprise. Image
Jul 26 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Hitler was funded by Western oligarchs, corporations & bankers.

Rockefeller, Wall Street, British royal family etc. were all invested in Nazi Germany; and Zionists were making deal with him.

If Hitler had defeated Russia, Hollywood would have made very different movies.

Time magazine 1936:Image Nazi-Zionists collaboration:
Jun 30 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Lying Media are recycling their Xinjiang propaganda, now aimed at Tibet, China.

Interestingly, last week, I went to a primary school in Lhasa, which had some boarding students!

Why? Because their parents literally live in remote mountains where there are no schools!

🧵 on my visit.

Here’s a description of the media below:

1. This was the welcome dance!😍
2. The primary school (quite big & fancy)
3. The rooms where the kids sleep
4. Classroom for learning Tibetan language
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Image Me trying calligraphy for the first time and actually drawing the character of “heaven” without knowing it! 😆

The school principal was super nice, sincere, smart, and full of energy. So I took a photo with her at the end.

#Tibet #China
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Jun 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
India is all talk, no action.

Without R&D spending, there won’t be real innovation, patents, homegrown products or giant companies.

Only 0.7% of GDP goes towards research and development. Image Look at the top 10 research institutes in the world.

8 out of 10 are from China. Image
Apr 19 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I bought a 1965 Playboy magazine from an old bookstore.

Here are some fascinating things about the magazine:

🧵 (Redoing to avoid the X bots) Image First, it wasn’t raunchy by today’s standards!

Shows how far we have gone (in the wrong direction?).

Even the Playboy of the Month photo in the centerfold wouldn’t be considered pornographic today. Image
Mar 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
My thread on the futility of Trump’s well-intentioned but misguided economic policies of trade wars and tariffs to revive American manufacturing: Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Reagan… it’s an American political tradition to impose tariffs, even though they have never helped create jobs or protect manufacturing! 😆
Mar 19 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
🧵A new era for India-China relations?

Two ancient Asian civilizations – India & China – account for 34% of world’s population & 50% of world’s economic growth.

They also have a 2000-year-old shared history.

Let’s explore the past and the future. Modi and Xi in Mamallapuram in 2019 During his recent interview with Lex Friedman, Indian PM Modi pointed out that India and China had been friends for 2000 years.

He also played down the border tensions by saying that there's no real history of conflicts.

He focused on learning from and understanding one another.
Feb 10 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
In 2024, US produced 82 million tons of steel… which was the same as it was in 1944!

But in the 1940s, America’s global market share of steel production was whopping 50%.

The deindustrialization cannot be reversed by Tariffs man Trump, who’s like Don Quixote. Image Now, China is the world’s leader in steel and aluminium production, accounting for more than HALF of the global market share.

In steel:

China 🇨🇳 = 12x USA 🇺🇸

In aluminium:

China 🇨🇳 = 50x USAImage
Feb 8 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Two maps that reveal incredible racism in the US.

Look at the electoral maps of 1960 and 1968.

For decades, Deep South was very "blue" -- solid Democrat base due to progressive help for workers.

1960 -- JFK versus Nixon.

Arkansas, Texas, Alabama etc.... all blue states! Shocking, eh?Image Then, in 1964, US passed the "Civil Rights Act," which gave blacks the right to vote.

And racist whites in the South could not handle it.

So, they gave up on economic interests & switched to far-right George Wallace, who famously said:

Segregation now, Segregation forever!Image
Jan 25 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Short but fascinating history of the founder of DeepSeek, the AI model that has taken the world by storm in the last few days. 🧵

It was founded by a rather eccentric hedge fund billionaire, Liang Wenfeng! Image In 2008, Wenfeng understood the potential of AI.

For many years, he tried to find the perfect niche market to use AI.

After failing multiple times, he settled on finance — trading stocks.

He used AI (deep learning) to detect patterns. Image
Dec 29, 2024 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Unbelievable racism in America.

Listen to this guy talking about Indians.

I don’t understand where so much hatred and misunderstanding come from in 2024. x.com/kanthan2030/st… x.com/kanthan2030/st…
Dec 25, 2024 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
The Struggle for the American Soul 🧵

“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy" -- John Quincy Adams, 1821.

But that's exactly what happened.

Trump embodies this conflict between nationalistic America First versus the imperial American Century.

This consequential struggle for the American soul will reverberate across the nation and the world. Darkness from the Start

Of course, USA has been a land of contradictions from the start.

For a nation that arose out of fighting colonialism, the US grew in size tenfold within hundred years after the founding in 1776.

Americans came up with all sorts of excuses – such as the Manifest Destiny – for this relentless expansion.
Dec 25, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Six charts that explain the performance of China's economy during the "lost decade" under Xi Jinping.

💠GDP: 110% growth
💠Manufacturing Value Added: 75% growth
💠Number of Fortune 500 firms: 94% growth

("Lost Decade" according to Wall Street Journal) Image China's economy 2012-2023:

💠Exports: 60% growth
💠Retail Sales: 120% growth
💠Car Exports: 1000% growth (!) Image
Dec 21, 2024 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
Whatever your belief system might be, many things about COVID-19 never made sense.

There are countless theories, but here are some irrefutable facts about the coronavirus, reactions, studies, death statistics, and vaccines… to make you question everything: 🧵 First, was/is COVID dangerous?

From the beginning, the virus/disease killed primarily old people.

Here's the chart for who died in January 2020 -- one month after the pandemic broke out.

Nobody under the age of 30 died. And 95% of those who died were over the age of 65.Image
Dec 20, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Perhaps you hate propaganda and you would like to detect it. Or, you want to hone your propaganda skills!

Either way, here are the four characteristics of successful propaganda: 🧵 Image Before we go further, the quotes in the above tweet might be propaganda! 😆

Perhaps Hitler and Goebbels were describing the West. Who knows?

History itself is propaganda written by winners.

Okay, now, let's get to the list
Dec 19, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The Empire of Chaos is on a roll 🧵

Geopolitical events in Syria, Ukraine, Bangladesh have proved that the US deep state has not lost its Midas touch for coups, color revolutions, and proxy wars.

But it does not guarantee the extension of the American Century. Here's why: First, the plan to conquer “7 countries in 5 years” was delayed, but is still progressing relentlessly. That's a huge strategic win for the globalists.

What’s next for the Galactic American/Israeli Empire?

Answer: Iran
Dec 11, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Use of chemical weapons in Syria. Short 🧵

When it comes to use of chemical weapons, the mainstream narrative has amnesia.

The "rebels" - Al Qaeda, ISIS, HTS, Al Nusra, FSA - have produced and used sarin, chlorine and mustard gas in Iraq and Syria for a long time.

#AssadImage Many chemical attacks were staged or faked by the jihadists in Syria.

Like this one in Khan Sheikhoun in 2017 was staged to force Trump to respond.

A little pothole on a remote road was supposed to be a chemical weapon attack. And a guy wearing sandals and exposed body gathering "evidence."Image
Dec 9, 2024 • 29 tweets • 20 min read
50 photos and other media to illustrate the truth about Syria and Assad.

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Image What happened since 2011 was NOT a civil war.

It was a proxy war waged by 100,000+ jihadists flown into Syria from all over the world. Image
Dec 8, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Thank God, Assad and his family are safe in Moscow! 🙏🏽

Russian state media has made the announcement.

For 10 years, Assad (and his wife) did amazing things for Syria. As a doctor in London before, he didn’t even want to get into politics.

Syria’s proximity to Israel made Assad a target. Anywhere else, he could have done an amazing job.Image Assad’s eldest son graduated with a math degree from Russia!

Classy family. Who needs the headache of trying to civilize jihadists and Islamic fanatics? Image
Dec 2, 2024 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 Can Save Trump Save the Dollar with Threats Against BRICS?

I cannot remember Trump ever talking about BRICS, but the first time he did was to threaten the multilateral organization with 100% tariffs, if it creates a BRICS currency.

Why?Image America’s prosperity depends on the “exorbitant privilege” of USD

This allows US to run massive budget and trade deficits every year.

Trump knows it.

"If we lose the global reserve currency status of the dollar, we will become a third-world country! "