Recent content by dpandey

Prob just a made up story. They need an excuse to continue the war. At this point, I won't trust any news. From either side. This is also good news for Iran. Opens the door for some black market purchases.

Events like this remind us of how clever the paki ruling class is. These punjabi ashrafs start a war, get clobbered, surrender in private and then declare victory in public. And continue with their drinking and womanizing. They still have their nuclear program and Iran wont. What exactly were...

Unlikely. Who will support Iran militarily? Russia is busy and China will not get involved in a hot war (ask the pakis). If your national slogans are 'marg bar amerika' and 'marg bar israel', your will have difficulty finding allies.

His father had not only supported pak in 1971, he apparently threatened to attack India if we made a move on sindh.

Handing over Iraq to shias gave Iran land access to Israel. Didn't turn out so well. The recent regime change in Syria was done specifically to block that access. Apparently, someone was explaining the ethnic makeup of Iraq to Bush Jr before the invasions. On being told about the shia and sunni...

The same as far as we are concerned. Pakistan's utility is in the the harm it can cause to India. Iran cannot do to India what Pakistan can.

We are not. But a more realistic assessment would definitely help.

People at the top normally paint a positive picture of the future while the lower ranks do the dirty work. The iraq war's code-name was 'Operation Iraq Freedom'. This is the mistake many Indian leaders are making with POK/GB. Instead of taking talking about 'capture' of GB, they should talk...

Making of Bush 2.0? (god told me to attack iraq) Why are so many Indians cheering for the west. If I have to choose between shia theocracy and american zionists, I would take the shia theocracy any day. How does an american controlled 'democracy' in the neighborhood help India? Isn't Heeramandi...

Trying to get favorable coverage in western media is a tall order. All EAMs will fail this test. For me, it was good enough when Vance said that they are not interested in intervention. It was a tacit acknowledgement of the fact that south asia is India's backyard. I couldn't have asked for...

You are going to get a push back (esp from the west) whenever you change the status quo. The real question is, how things end up in the long run. 1971 was quite bad, but everyone accepted India's position in the end. Same for the nuclear explosions. Will everyone accept India's position on JK...

Internal was the easy part. The fact that pakistan's friends didn't make it a big deal indicates some very sophisticated back end diplomacy.

How do you rate his handling of 370 revocation? Was it not big enough a problem? Why do you think so? Tharoor lives in the colonial Anglo-centric world. He still wastes time litigating stale grievances. Besides, we don't know what dirt his party bosses (i.e. secret services) have on him. His...

Some leisure reading (mostly grudging acknowledgement of India's ability): From Small Wars Journal https://smallwarsjournal.com/2025/05/22/indias-wake-up-call-why-us-defense-reform-must-match-the-speed-of-modern-war/ From The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies...

Chances are she was an unwitting s.x worker. In her head she was a Mata Hari but in reality she was a Pamela Bordes being sent as a bribe to officials in different countries.