mishra Posted February 12, 2025 Posted February 12, 2025 34 minutes ago, Muloghonto said: Why would we want nato with usa where our weapons and defence are infiltrated by the US ? NO NATO nation has independent foreign policy. They are literally arm twisted into US military adventures and while usa can just simply print more money to fund these wars, it's vassals get left holding the bag. When I say join US Camp, I do not say leave Russia Camp. I also do not say burn all bridges with China. All I am saying is acquire Peace through USA. Which means effectively position yourself as close to USA as possible for tech economic purpose. If we need to speak for Taiwan or Israel in same voice as USA, so be it. Cost Benefit Analysis or Return on Investment is far greater wherever we can align ourselves with USA.
Muloghonto Posted February 12, 2025 Posted February 12, 2025 37 minutes ago, mishra said: When I say join US Camp, I do not say leave Russia Camp. I also do not say burn all bridges with China. All I am saying is acquire Peace through USA. Which means effectively position yourself as close to USA as possible for tech economic purpose. If we need to speak for Taiwan or Israel in same voice as USA, so be it. Cost Benefit Analysis or Return on Investment is far greater wherever we can align ourselves with USA. Well u cannot join USA camp as in a NATO like structure and still be part of a geopolitical grouping involving russia and China. Literally no NATO or Asian ww2 vassal/ally of USA is allowed to do so. Not even white nations, so how will we ?? This whole 'we are part of Nato and brics' is wishful thinking. That wouldn't be having your finger in every pie, that would be pissing off all your allies and enemies alike.
mishra Posted February 12, 2025 Posted February 12, 2025 (edited) 47 minutes ago, Muloghonto said: Well u cannot join USA camp as in a NATO like structure and still be part of a geopolitical grouping involving russia and China. Literally no NATO or Asian ww2 vassal/ally of USA is allowed to do so. Not even white nations, so how will we ?? This whole 'we are part of Nato and brics' is wishful thinking. That wouldn't be having your finger in every pie, that would be pissing off all your allies and enemies alike. We are already part of QUAD. In India AERO show F-35 and SU-57 used same runway. Never say impossible. We should NOT have anything Anti-Russia but on US policy on Anti China, why should we not use the chip to fullest. Edited February 12, 2025 by mishra
Teengunalagaan Posted February 12, 2025 Posted February 12, 2025 22 hours ago, Vicks57 said: USA will topple a govt just to increase the market cap of American companies. That's how evil they are. All the terrorist organisations in Middle East were initially funded by US. Eventually, they went rogue. The no.1 rule of geopolitics is there are no permanent friends or enemies. There are certain things where both US and India interests align, we should continue to have to good relations with US where our interests align in geopolitics, in trade and business; NATO is absolute bullshit, these countries are not allies they are vassal states of US. India is too large now to be played around like that, but still there are certain risks we cannot take it easy, look at our neighbors in the west, people think it's their army who have destroyed that country which is true but not 100% correct, if the their army did not receive the support and patronage of US things could have been a hell of a lot different there, Imran Khan was trying to stand up to US and have an independent foreign policy, and look what happened to him. It is no coincidence that Bangladeshis were able to protest and change govt, but Pakistanis can't even though most of their people want Khan as the leader. There are high chances Bangladesh could very well be on the same path as Pakistan, unless some drastic changes happen. Indian govts deserve a lot of praise regardless of which political party has been in power, since independence we have kept our foreign policy independent and not fallen into this trap, had we not done than, chances are we wouldn't even be a single country today, they would have broken us when we were weak for their own interests. raki05 1
bharathh Posted February 12, 2025 Posted February 12, 2025 (edited) 1 hour ago, Muloghonto said: Well u cannot join USA camp as in a NATO like structure and still be part of a geopolitical grouping involving russia and China. Literally no NATO or Asian ww2 vassal/ally of USA is allowed to do so. Not even white nations, so how will we ?? This whole 'we are part of Nato and brics' is wishful thinking. That wouldn't be having your finger in every pie, that would be pissing off all your allies and enemies alike. I think Turkey has benefitted tremendously from being a part ofthe NATO.They have a pretty independent foreign policy from the rest of Europe as well. A hostile Israel policy, bombing Syria and Iraq at will citing Kurds. They are pretty close to all the Islamic countries that are hostile to the US as well. They are a net exporter of tech - esp drones which must have come from other NATO tech. Edited February 12, 2025 by bharathh
BacktoCricaddict Posted February 12, 2025 Posted February 12, 2025 15 hours ago, gattaca said: The link is why is USAID giving money to LET. They gave it on 2019 and in 2023 as well. Even four congressmen were against this funding but they still went ahead. We don’t even know how much money was provided to LET by USAID before 2008. https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/world/story/donald-trump-usaid-funded-pakistan-ngo-link-to-terrorist-organisation-lashkar-e-taiba-let-falahs-e-insaniat-2675197-2025-02-05 This link says a bit more. But nothing in any of the links posted suggests that USAID funded LET for Mumbai attacks (thread title).
Muloghonto Posted February 12, 2025 Posted February 12, 2025 4 hours ago, bharathh said: I think Turkey has benefitted tremendously from being a part ofthe NATO.They have a pretty independent foreign policy from the rest of Europe as well. A hostile Israel policy, bombing Syria and Iraq at will citing Kurds. They are pretty close to all the Islamic countries that are hostile to the US as well. They are a net exporter of tech - esp drones which must have come from other NATO tech. Turkeys long term thousands of years old enemy is russia and vice versa. So they need nato. Also not ever a threat to usa for higher gross gdp.
mishra Posted February 13, 2025 Posted February 13, 2025 (edited) Looks like this is allegedly a USAId program https://factshala.com/humans-of-factshala/ Reach 8.5 crore. Check the website Some names u may be familiar https://factshala.com/ambassador-programme/ Edited February 13, 2025 by mishra
Teengunalagaan Posted February 19, 2025 Posted February 19, 2025 On 2/10/2025 at 10:40 AM, ravishingravi said: Thanks to Uncle Sam, our neighbors are on a very progressive path https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxnwnye7wko https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/1/29/womens-football-match-cancelled-in-bangladesh-after-religious-protests Next steps probably ban the girls from schools and women from working, Bangladeshi Taliban ravishingravi 1
AuxiliA Posted February 20, 2025 Posted February 20, 2025 USAID is just the tip of the iceberg. Its just around 100 billion dollars. The real skeletons will come out when they release the Defence and Health spendings data which run into trillions of dollars. mishra 1
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