@AvisharDutta I think ever since upa1 sold out the 1990s manufacturing base, a generation of manufacturing engrs / managers / commodity folks never got developed, so just throwing money is not enough now, we need ppl to spend soak time doing those missed 20 yrs - same as US does now 😂 @AvisharDutta but US has the additional pain point that dollar may need to devalue by 25% per some fund mgrs to make it cost viable to onshore most manufacturing. this will knock stuffing out of even upper mid class lifestyle and reduce to 'basic west euro living' - imagine a acura mdx vs i20?

I know there will be huge howls over this!
Mudi has done nothing, weakened our position rah rah. Useless delegations rah rah . I have a different pov on this 1/n
It has put the indo-US relation in correct view as purely trade oriented. No need for mythical stuff like “shared values”, “rules based order”, “strategic partner” to enter chat.
We both must trade and it will go as usual . Simps who worry about gc can lick a$$ if they want 2/n

Unpopular - my spinal feel is the gen coming into workforce now 2025-2050 will have a 50% never married rate and a 30-50% kind of separation/abandonment rate without issue depending on income strata and location. So around 25-35% of cohort will have kids in the end. And vast majority cannot afford more than 1 even today unless they are working in hometown with parental support and own house (no emi) .. as people follow organized sector jobs this breaks

I think sino-pak are working to a plan just as sino-rus are working a plan that goes far beyond ukraine theater

small kargil type war will thin out other fronts for months, slow economy and give politicas a big twist. Under that cover a landgrab as in kargil time panggong tso Pak has been funded and rapidly rearmed from its rusted state a few years ago. they can easily hold the line in JK and punjab using tactics and forts made decades ago - not that we are the old red army anyway

These depth maps will explain why bay of bengal and southern indian ocean is such a gods gift to the yindu as a ssbn ssn playpen. Notice how deep BoB is with shelf dropping like a cliff from our bases 1/3



In contrast the area between cambodia to borneo is very shallow and only deep bowl in scs+ecs is hemmed in by borneo, Ph, taiwan crawling with soryu and taigei subs if J enters the arena. Hainan has a long shallow belt offshore

From a forum: If the reports about number of armor deployed engaged in combat tonight are correct, then largest tank battle since Operation Hoveyzeh in 1981. History is being made tonight.certainly sobering to realize that thousands are probably dead, dying or wounded right now. Attacks raged into early hours. As morning dawns and fighting dies down , damage reports and films may emerge slowly.

On a serious note has anyone made a copter of this nature using cots motorcycle sized IC engines or aero grade engines of much higher t:w and rpm is mandatory?

https://twitter.com/leeandy33996956/status/1666180946134179840

And how does one shape the aerofoils of the blades at home? Are these standard recipes and guidelines based on weight to be uplifted and engine specs?

What happened to nirav modi and mehul choksi case? Did govt also give up on vijay mallya case?
All these circuses have one ending only as none of ruling mandali cutting across parties wants them back lest they start taking names in media. So a initial show sha then sannata Last news on wiki: During December 2022, the Royal Courts of Justice in London refused permission for Nirav Modi to appeal to the UK Supreme Court about the order from the UK Home Secretary in April 2021 ordering his extradition to India, ordered him to pay legal fees of £150,247

Apparently ukr had 50m people in 1991 and lost 20m by death and emigration to stand at 29m (counting all breakaway population incl crimea, dpr, lpr) … minus that its 20m ie pop of NCR/greater mumbai .. for a country of 1000km x 1500km europes largest 20m people with a very low TFR and weigh towards more aged and war wounded may generate some 5-8m working age … how a country can sustain is a tough issue. Maybe poorer elements of poles, baltics, carpathians will be resettled and given land tracts to keep farms viable

rumours that nova khakovka dam in kherson has been damaged/destroyed and water levels increasing downstream ie toward kherson … below are projections only If true, the impact on water supply of crimea may be severe … more than a temporary defensive flood

I propose a theory -mass democracy is a false god like white sugar that has been imposed on poorer countries . it will always keep them chaotic and poor.

In our own history the only times of prosperity and security were under powerful kings. Succession was nominally by birth… But turks/mughals settled it by fratricide (may the most ruthless can-do brother win), and hindu kingdoms picked the most capable son , nephew or a capable outsider overthrew and took charge- nandas to mauryas to shungas…

Things are a powder-keg on all fronts - economic, social, political .. worldwide.. ready to explode/implode with unrestrained brutality as and when wheels go off tram rails or new alexanders command the legions.
in this mahaul better to be the bad guy and impose presidents rule In some areas vs just sit around waiting for time to take care or bake electoral bread on the blood of the hapless serfs

NDTV: Khalistan supporter Amritpal Singh, the focus of a massive manhunt in Punjab since Saturday, stashed a large number weapons, ran deaddiction centres to indoctrinate young Sikh men and used a Mercedes SUV gifted by a drug boss, according to top government sources. NDTV: According to police, Amritpal's uncle Harjit Singh and driver Harpreet Singh surrendered near Bullandpur gurdwara in Mehatpur area in Jalandhar late Sunday night.

Someone has written a primer that explains lack of mass armour in ukr fights. New threats new tactics 1/2 2/2 - how that translates to indo cheen situation in bare ladakhi terrain we have to see

Whether its oil, gas, farming or industry the kind of civic infra built up in major cities of central asian republics is amazing… baku, tashkent, ala ata … and then smaller ones like samarkand, bukhara, khiva… makes dilli planners looks like quite bad ..mum/blr not in frame.. We have a lot more wealthy people and a diversified tax base but continue to horrendous and ineffective urban work for high density cities .

@Bhaktirassagar Tales of dutch brutality in java and bali are not well known but papered over carefully to preserve their modern reputation as mild free traders. A lot of royal family clans committed ritual suicide there vs submitting to marauding dutch lashkars @Bhaktirassagar Must be some dark tales from the spice islands too ( molucca islands ) which dutch grabbed for nutmeg cloves etc

Given Pak economic troubles, shall we see a downsizing of pak fauj in numbers and equipment and cancellation of various planned acquistions? Generally defence cuts are the first thing democratic leaders do in a crisis… Other ways of raising money
- pawning off gilgit baltistan to china on 99yr lease
- m113, m109, t80u vast nos can be sold to ukr with spares and 155mm shells too
- get hold of korrupt elites and shake them down(saudi prince did that to recover sovereign wealth)

Screen shots from a russi channel. summary is the BTG formation fully mech , high arty count but lean manpower has totally failed in holding ground , protecting logistics behind deep advances(kiev/poltava) or urban war. Even for deep probes can be soundly defeated fr lack of mass So russi using part of mobilized reserves in middle of a war to beef up units and reform into more manpower heavy units of the type suited to ukraine war vs pell mell rushing of thin ukr lines in first week of war esp when ukr has real time intel via nato such surprises rare

How is ukraine civil war any different from a hybrid of bangladesh and pak? Forced urduization , electoral mischief/coups and unleashing shadow militias on rebellious civil society , seato/cento funds and posturing , massive western media supporting fire, economic screws on indja To put it amoral terms, russi are attempting to neuter a new pakistan before it becomes as permament and deadly a cats paw as the original pak which india failed to neuter in 48 itself and partially damaged in 71

An article from 2017 passed to me the gyaani who lives in the shadows..a man hard to find even in his own house … it is worthy of a full reading as it analyses the LAC posture and strategy . He talked to lot of officers ethz.ch/content/dam/et… Once the Chinese seize a position, it may be very difficult to dislodge them Rather than expend much blood and treasure attempting to storm impregnable positions, we should pursue a strategy of horizontal escalation and capture territory elsewhere

Met a disillusioned gyaani (not the linkedin life coach type!) who prefers to remain in shadows even in good times. Some comments from him…
1. plaaf has a ring of bases around. it is no longer just hotan and kashi anymore but 10 airfields to contend with at leh. 2. we will get outnumbered even while we keep saying the 5 decade old thing of “but but they cant takeoff with full payload onlee”