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@ShiyamHussain @RnaudBertrand Being irrelevant is better than being a target. And Indonesia is big enough to be sidelined.

@RnaudBertrand Indonesia by playing all sides is just making herself irrelevant in the geopolitical sphere. No one will trust her and no one will prioritise their relationship with her either.

Many people present this as Indonesia "aligning" itself with the U.S. when at the very same time as Indonesia's Defense Minister was in Washington, President Prabowo was in the Kremlin meeting Putin (en.antaranews.com/news/412121/pr…), quoted with this opening statement: “Your Excellency, I have also come to consult with you as the global geopolitical situation is developing and changing very rapidly.” Which means it looks much more like Indonesia playing the non-aligned playbook, leveraging its position between great powers. This "Major Defense Cooperation Partnership" seems mostly aspirational for now: it says both countries "will explore" co-development of asymmetric capabilities, "pioneering" next-gen defense tech in maritime and autonomous systems, "cooperating on" MRO support. All words high on Pentagon press release energy, low on substance. There's also this other story about a secret deal between Indonesia and the U.S. where Indonesia would grant the U.S. military blanket overflight rights across its entire archipelago (reuters.com/world/asia-pac…). Fascinatingly, this classified document was leaked by The Sunday Guardian (here: sundayguardianlive.com/world/us-seeks…), an Indian media outlet founded by M.J. Akbar, a journalist who became a BJP politician (he served as Minister of State for External Affairs under Modi). This is not a paper that accidentally stumbles onto classified US defense documents about Indonesian airspace. Someone gave them this document, and they published it for a reason (presumably because they don't want the U.S. to have a free air corridor across the Indonesian archipelago any more than Beijing does). The impact of the publication is already disrupting the deal, which was probably the whole point. Indonesia's parliament is already saying that "there is no legal basis that allows for the granting of unlimited free access to national airspace to foreign parties" (antaranews.com/berita/5524735…) and Indonesia's Defense Ministry is in damage control mode, downplaying the document as merely a "preliminary draft" that hasn't been approved (en.tempo.co/read/2097899/i…). Mission accomplished, presumably. So all in all, the actual story is: - Indonesia signed a vague framework with the U.S. that's mostly aspirational - high on PR, low on substance - It collected a photo op with the Pentagon and the Kremlin on the same day - The consequential stuff would have been the overflight deal but it looks like someone wanted it killed badly enough to leak it to Modi-adjacent Indian media - who happily published it and the deal is now compromised. That's where the actual power play happened - and it seems to have worked.

@iAyushiRajput @ME_Observer_ If USA Navy is so unbreakable, why they can't open the strait? LOL

@ME_Observer_ Iran’s desperate for relevance, pumping out fake AI vids to scare America. But USA Navy is unbreakable. Yemen's got nothing on American might.

Trump is losing it He's now accusing Iran of doing AI videos of burned USS Lincoln carrier and that they don't have the attack boats that Yemenis have He talks alot but in the end the ships are not passing through Hormuz

@_Icenfyre @TimesofIsrael Thousands of Austronesians had lived there thousands of years before Portuguese sailors "found" it.

@TimesofIsrael Israel is Portuguese territory as per Tordesilhas Treaty not the other way around 🙃 Fun Fact: Taiwan (Ilha Formosa) is actually portuguese. No one was there when we got there, so we're more entitled to it than China 😎

Thousands of Israelis line up for appointment to obtain Portuguese citizenship timesofisrael.com/thousands-of-i…

@ThatIndicGuy @Ajitkum85387448 Near 100% occupancy rate. How is it an L?

143km Jakarta - Handing High Speed Rail Daily Ridership - Avg 21,000 Fare - $16 (=₹1100-1200)

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