...ended its collabaration with the French army... ?

Wait. The Burkinabé govt threw out the naughty french neocolonialists armies, you'd rather say. (/s as if you did not know)

F*ck them ! But now, people die. :(

Math, science, logic, and philosophy classes starting as soon as kids can learn. Specifically teaching everyone how to identify logical fallacies. Preventing socially conservative dictators and politicians of any economic or religious persuasion from committing purges of information and people. Over half of traditional Chinese medicine came to exist under Mao after he had convinced the young people to kill many of the elderly and highly educated. There were no doctors, so they made up some stuff and called it medicine and gave it a backstory that tied it to herbal remedies that were traditional.

Thank you! :)

India's strategy is to rely on itself. India fought all its war alone. But like it or not, India's partnership with west is deepening. You can see that in the form of defence and investment deals.

We are surrounded by enemies, agreed. But one of them is not like the other. China is a problem, Pak isn't. With Imran gone and Pak needing new loans, it's coming back to its daddy US. Which means China can't use it to poke India. We are even contemplating on reducing our armed forces presence in Kashmir and redeploying them at the LAC. Honestly Pak is a non issue now. Pakistanis are now wondering that if they made a good decision antagonizing India and destroying it's relationship with India. Cause you know, they can really use some of our wheat right now. Which they won't get, cause their stupid administration stopped trading with India since 2019.

And good luck flying aircrafts over Himalayas. Even US doubts that a war could be fought that way, what will China even do? Our Rafales are decent enough to counter whatever j17s you have. US recently came to the air expo held in India with their F35s. Now I don't know if they will offer us F35, considering we operate S400s. But let's suppose they do, then how are you planning to match that? Your planes and your army isn't battle tested. Who says, they'll too come out as a paper tiger. And it most probably will. And hello, have you forgotten about AGNI 5, and the up and coming AGNI 6. They are more than capable in reaching your easternmost hideouts. As i mentioned before, all you can do is sneak inside our borders. But you will be repelled. And we will get to see more of those videos where our army is beating the shit out of your army lol.

> Ukraine won’t join NATO

So the appropriate response to a neighbouring sovereign country wanting to make its own decisions for its own benefit is to attempt to murder the whole population and claim the country for your own?

If Pakistan invaded Kashmir and lays waste to Punjab you’d be ok with that so long as it’s in response to BRICS expansionism?

Thanks for your opinion. Sounds like life of the average citizen is not impacted that much. Which is great to hear as I firmly believe ‘the west’ has no intention to impact any of the Russian population. I do hope however that the machine which supports the policy makers’ actions is being disrupted and they do feel the geo political consequences of their actions. And this war is made as expensive and difficult as possible to maintain for the Russian chain of command.

The agressor should be challenged, the citizens and the defenders supported. No matter which side of the conflict they are on.

Stay safe

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Tank You Poland

Sorry, updated my comment (posted early)

I agree. West saw Indian nonallignment and friendly relations with USSR as taking a side and decided to back Pakistan as an anti-commie block

This was disastrous. Kissinger is a monster and also an idiot. US fopo towards India at the time was also braindead and sometime outright racist.

But not we must suffer our great grandfathers mistakes (not that long ago, but old af politicians) and now we have a unstable Pakistan no one in America actually likes who isn't even that important now war on terror shif scaled back, rising China who dominates trade even with its biggest local rivals because the US are too concerned about appeasing domestic voters to trade more, and India mired with corruption (whilst I am not necessarily the biggest fan of the Indian nationalists as a whole, Modi and the BJP compared to the INC dynasty is relatively easy, much less corruption at least) and prior stagnant growth

And tbh whilst they are Westernised to some extent I dont know how far that goes. Even in Indian online spaces-- Indians use the same media as rest (unlike China) and even language (can access external news if they choose) they are similar to China in online pro-Russia sentiment.

Not fundamentally different, but neither side is going to take a big first step in relations, US knows India will never join again China in Taiwan and India knows US won't support directly in skirmishes in border (and India doesn't expect it to escalate) to the "alligned" anti China thing fizzles out, and India imports tons from China and America does too

China has a lot to lose if they run their mouth. You ever take a look at the products you bought lately.

Unrelated. Earthquakes happen all the time. You don't hear about them because usually the big ones don't hit in extremely vulnerable areas like Turkey. One does, and for a month or so, the media freaks out about earthquakes for a while.

Papua New Guinea is located in the Ring Of Fire, and has several large volcanoes. Like Japan (also in the Ring of Fire), quakes like this are not uncommon.

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At this point, every-time a news on sanctions on Russia appears, I’m like “it wasn’t done earlier??”

Yeah right. A person who has a similar agenda like Putin will for sure stop the war. LOOOL!!!!

Have they closed the Turkish loophole yet?

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India has the potential to be the Asian manufacturing superpower within the next two or or three decades.

Sorry, I couldve clarified I was focusing on imports there, but you are correct I was relying on old data. However even then, China is still ahead (even if by less than I thought) and as you say, Indians are skeptical of increased reliance upon the West in trade (to the point China is their largest trading partner-- rather be stabbed in the front and all I guess) Not to mention the fact that many imports from China are critical, whereas India can and wants to move away from US dependence

And Russian influence in India is much more understated. From Soviet propaganda to Operation Infektion in the outset to India media (and that includes nominally "independent" media dancing around the Russian line) This includes associating Soviets with modern Russia, UN votes, vetos and speeches, arms sales, seeing Russia as a successful and honest country, and being completely forgiving of all and any Russian steps against Indian interests (big one is their massive relationship with China, but also them restricting foreign investment from India and others and cancelling arms sales)

Don't get me wrong, we very likely broadly agree. My point is given all we have both said and the Indian sentiment, India as the US will not be allies. Americans are apathetic towards India if not slight positive, and Indians dislike America and are very wary of them

The best to hope for is a mutually beneficial trade relationship where both sides do not interfere with each other, and India will continue to trade with Russia, China, Afghanistan etc.

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Wait. There were Russian banks and officials and trade that wasn't already sanctioned?

So India's strategy is to rely on the west - while also pissing the west off. And you say the west needs India lmao.

Yes the U.S is strong, no one in China denies that. But India is not. Surrounded by enemies with no real allies to help. The U.S isn't going to go to war for India - India can't even stop buying cheap oil haha. Why would the U.S help you there?

And China doesn't need to conqueror all of India to achieve strategic victory. China is simply taking land, building defences on it. India can't do anything back about it. Plus India struggles with long range missiles and aircraft. Launching a nuke over the Himalayas is childs play for China. Sending aircraft, can be done. What aircraft does India have that can do similar? I mean if the U.S sold some of its f35's perhaps. Maybe China can sell some J series craft to you... nope. I guess you can keep trying and failing to build anything useful.

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Try reading the article once, that would end your whataboutism.

Justin wouldn't like that. In fact he's decided such an inquiry isn't needed.