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Back to India 4 years ago

Exactly. 0 consideration that the media may be constructing narratives and feeding them to us, instead of being objective.

Back to India 4 years ago

Not everyone shares those sentiments -- and that's all they are, just sentiments.

And, why hasn't the EU shut off all oil and gas purchases from Russia immediately?

Why should a poor country support this sanctions regime and then witness massive internal disruption?

Most of the countries and populations of the world have in fact NOT imposed sanctions.

Back to India 4 years ago

TWN, SK, and JPN were all authoritarian when industrializing. Similar with US too, to be honest.

Back to India 4 years ago

India received Lawrow recently, he is not allowed in any EU country.

And? Your point? Speaking to diplomats is suddenly taboo?

India is not dependent on Russian oil

No. But, it is dependent on oil and gas being cheap enough to make basic inputs with. It is a region and country on the brink of poverty in many ways. What did you expect?

Back to India 4 years ago

Wow. The manufactured consent generating machine is still working as expected.

Funny. NoMachine is exactly what I use right now. Decent functionality. Reputable company. Etc.

But, RDP's bandwidth efficiency on Windows is unbeatable AFAIK. I wish the Linux and macOS world had something like that.

China, yes.

India, no.

Most of the water entrapment areas of India are within India's borders.

And, the rest come from the Himalayas, where it isn't easy to divert the flows, and most of those mountains are under Indian control. See: https://www.thetibetpost.com/en/features/44-environment-and-...

The real threat is China launching attacks from Tibet, against India.

Why? Because much of Chinese trade goes through the Indian Ocean, where India has negative control.

So, it is easy to see China getting wary of India and launching a territorial war from Tibet, in order to gain dominance over India. And, of course, Pakistan would join in.

It's possible that history will play out in a similar way - Putin thought taking Ukraine would be easy but loses that and then loses power at home and ends up replaced. Perhaps by a normal democracy, looking on the optimistic side.

This usually doesn't work. We've tried this before, believe it or not.

Yes, I agree. Russia doesn't have an inherent right to a sphere of influence. But, it is also a principle in international relations that one nation-state should not increase its security at the expense of another. This situation is reminiscent of the Cuban Missile Crisis.