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Will @Uppolice and @ghaziabadpolice take any action on them? Or will they let jungle raaj prevail in UP?
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Keshav Bedi
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Keshav Bedi
@keshavbedi
“छमहु नाथ सब अवगुन मेरे।” Analytics from Delhi School of Economics. Economics from Jamia Millia Islamia. See @PureEcon for content on matters economic.
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The IQ level that I am up against 🤡🤣
And he thinks I was too afraid to join Twitter Spaces with him. 🤣
Go play pranks with Rohit of Koi Mil Gaya.
Defense Twitter ka khoda.
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Note something pernicious in his argument. Wealth redistribution (charity) is fine so long as done wilfully by Warren Buffet.
If government does it, that’s when it becomes too much.
It all boils down to respecting whims of the rich over urgency of poor and the cause of equality.
Same argument can be applied on subsidised healthcare. Why should government tax the rich and help poor with it? Let unhealthy people request and plead the rich, and if they will, so be it. If not, bad luck fellas!
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Two problems with this argument.
First, extreme concentration of wealth at the top is bad for democracy. We’re seeing this play out.
Second, the current crop of billionaires (with a few exceptions) should little desire to give away their wealth. Musk and Thiel mock charity.
hamsters🌐🐹@sigmahamster2
Here’s what macro economist Gregory Mankiw says about wealth taxes that people like Zucman push for. They’re bad!
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"From the demonization of Muslims to the role of the Election Commission in shaping the voter lists on the eve of an election, what happened in West Bengal may be a disturbing portent for the future of electoral process in India...," argue Sumit Ganguly & Shibashis Chatterjee.
Foreign Policy@ForeignPolicy
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s tactics to oust West Bengal’s ruling party raise questions about the future of India’s constitutional democracy. foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/14/ind…
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@arindube @maiamindel Even Sweezy had replied to Hayek adequately in his book “Socialism”
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It's really funny that Jacobin discovered Hayek in 2026, and didn't actually bother engaging with Stiglitz (1994) "Whither Socialism," which was a very smart piece that was a critique of Hayek's notion of information aggregation by markets, as well as central planning.
But the funniest thing is that this happened in the age of gen-AI, whose proponents are promising us automated abundance.
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Manmohan Singh’s SOFT approach led to increased terr0rism in India? 🤡☠️
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Dear sir, its unfortunate that you couldn't even comprehend the argument that was made, but you nevertheless still went on the same reactionary rant that was already addressed.
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Operation Sindoor wasn't a strategic failure because we didn't hit certain Pakistani target. We did. That's tactical success in a very narrow sense, which is different from strategic success. (Never mind our jets being downed)
It wasn't a strategic failure because Pakistanis say they won, no. The argument was, when you say you sent a message, who was the recipient of the message and what message did exactly land? That completely escaped you.
Sindoor was a strategic failure because, we went on to avenge 26 dead, but ended up INCREASING our civilian casualty count by 21 MORE, while we ended up making a highly unpopular Pakistani army domestically more powerful and popular. We established no deterrence for future terrorist acts, as we didn't even with URI and BALAKOT. Pakistan ended up becoming diplomatically more elevated in the world, no country in the world even criticized Pakistan for Phalgam, because we didn't even build a case for it, and today they are mediating world's most important conflict, having ensured multiple ceasefires, while we are left sitting idle navigating what to do.
Keshav Bedi@keshavbedi
Why Operation Sindoor was strategically a FAILURE
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Saw a video of an idiot and his two friends asking: What did India gain from #OperationSindoor? Well, let me tell you.
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Full support to Keshav here. Operation Sindoor has been a strategic failure that hasn't restored deterrence.
The BJParty's politicisation of national security and foreign policy has been the most disastrous development since 2014.
Keshav Bedi@keshavbedi
Why Operation Sindoor was strategically a FAILURE
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@CivitasSameer Second time I exposed you for lack of basic comprehension skills.
Have you completed kindergarten yet?
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This entire video is actually filled with a load of horse shit. Someone who cites international law without even knowing what article 51 is, or how india used it to justify op sindhoor is sitting and lecturing us about international laws.
Shut up, this is not instagram where your audience hypes everything you say.
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@CivitasSameer Learn to accept your defeat, sore loser. Not once, I have exposed you atleast twice already.
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Reposting this here because @keshavbedi genuinely couldn't respond to a single point made in this video.
(This video is almost a year old btw)
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I nowhere see that happening after Uri and Balakot.
Terrorism from Pakistan has declined due to factors other than our military strikes, which include things like FATF and Pakistan’s abysmal economy.
Tactical military attacks don’t exhaust capability of terror infrastructure to make subsequent strike in any meaningful way
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@keshavbedi Its not 1 silver bullet - covert op, intelligence all have their role. But a mil op queers Paki strategic calculus, forces them to go back to drawing board, spend some more $ they dont have. Buys us a few years of peace.
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The target isnt violence in J&K, but hi profile terror attacks in the mainland. Each retribution by us buys us a few years of peace. That is a worthy enuf objective to kill a few 100 Pak terrorists/soldiers in retributory strikes...
Keshav Bedi@keshavbedi
This is one of the reason why Manmohan Singh government didn’t do a military strike post 26-11. It would have had limited practical utility and impact on the organisation, as US experience had shown. LeT camps were tin sheds and huts which could be rebuilt easily. Note that even sensible votaries of Operation Sindoor don’t claim that the operation inflicted any meaningful damage to the organisations it targeted.
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The retribution for 26 dead was followed by 21 more dead on our side.
Let me know if there’s any evidence that cross-border military strikes have ever actually reduced terror attacks in a country where attacks were already on a declining trend anyway.
Somnath Mukherjee@somnath1978
The target isnt violence in J&K, but hi profile terror attacks in the mainland. Each retribution by us buys us a few years of peace. That is a worthy enuf objective to kill a few 100 Pak terrorists/soldiers in retributory strikes...
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If you think this is what establishes robustness of your two absurd claims, then I have nothing more to add.
Note how weak your positions are that you have to literally defend them by posturing and demeaning the other side with devoid of susbtance insults. Hope you do better work in academia than this.
I am done here.
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@keshavbedi Already did. Can you keep the conversation in one place. I know engagement it’s important for the likes of you, and that’s how you guys measure the weight of the argument, but I’d like of you could attach your replies to this post.
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@keshavbedi Absurd claims? The first: escalatory danger has been there for a while, which I have written about multiple times, but I am not sure what’s the point you’re making, since they only show Pakistan’s lack of concern for escalation or any intention to take a step back, esp after 23.
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I am still waiting for you to show evidence of your two absurd claims and which scholars outside of lunatic asylum have made those claims, and on what evidence (if at all)
Impress others with your posturing. With me, you need to come up with evidence. I will wait for them before you shift goalposts again.
Rishap Vats@VatsRishap
@keshavbedi So, again, you can’t find any expert of your choice (even from the plethora of voices where you pick these talking points from) who were saying that the Army was on its way out in March 2025, or that the domestic battles against the PTI weren’t a foregone conclusion by then.
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@VatsRishap Still waiting for basis of your two absurd claims. Impress others with posturing.
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“Pakistan would’ve faced flak domestically, leading to a probable regime change and strengthening of democratic forces opposed to terror within India.”
You should stop talking about making claims, since this is the level of arguments or “solutions”.
Keshav Bedi@keshavbedi
I have no interest in partisan rhetoric either, and I too study these things seriously. So get off this high horse already. You made two absurd claims rooted in ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. 1. Indo-Pak region was in an equivalent danger before Sindoor. 2. Army popularity and control in Pakistan would be equivalent even without Sindoor. Find me any scholar outside of lunatic asylum who would make such claims, and also show me basis of these claims. Posturing is different from evidence based reasoning.
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I have no interest in partisan rhetoric either, and I too study these things seriously. So get off this high horse already. You made two absurd claims rooted in ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
1. Indo-Pak region was in an equivalent danger before Sindoor.
2. Army popularity and control in Pakistan would be equivalent even without Sindoor.
Find me any scholar outside of lunatic asylum who would make such claims, and also show me basis of these claims.
Posturing is different from evidence based reasoning.
Rishap Vats@VatsRishap
@keshavbedi This is not trivial, but as someone who studies Pakistan’s politics beyond reels and partisan rhetoric for clicks, I can say with certainty that by March 2025, there was no other way that domestic divide or civil unrest was going. Show me one expert who was saying otherwise then.
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As for my preferred solution, it was this:
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1. Used non State actors to hit legit and just targets within Pakistan—like UN designated terrorist Masood Azhar. 2. Built a case linking Pakistan with Pahalgam after thorough investigation and showed it to the international community so that: a.) Pakistan would’ve been internationally isolated (which it is currently not since no country in the world even condemned Pakistan for Pahalgam, recent IMF loan approval ki to baat hi side rakhdo), facing sanctions et cetera, and b.) Pakistan would’ve faced flak domestically, leading to a probable regime change and strengthening of democratic forces opposed to terror within India. [This, by the way, would have truly sent Pakistan a message, as opposed to the message that they have received now (that India just unilaterally aggressed against its sovereignty without any proof)] 3. Would have used covert funding and operations to strengthen democratic forces within Pakistan. 4. Granted Kashmiris more autonomy so that they truly felt being in control of their lives and destinies in India.
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Public opinion of Pakistani army improved for 93% of respondents after Operation Sindoor, according to Gallup Pakistan poll.
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That maybe trivial to you.
That region was already in an equivalent escalatory danger before OS is again your unfounded assumption
Rishap Vats@VatsRishap
@keshavbedi No serious expert or voice would argue that if Pahalgam or the retaliation did not happen, the domestic situation in Pakistan would be any different. Did it make their efforts easier? Sure. But that’s no reason to not impose cost to such actions that they carry out with impunity.
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At what cost?
Increasing our own casualties in retaliatory strike, putting the whole region in danger of a major conflict, unifying Pakistani public behind army which was unpopular till the time we did our strikes.
We didn’t build any case internationally, and Pakistan far from being isolated ended up becoming mainstream.
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Keshav Bedi@keshavbedi
Why Operation Sindoor was strategically a FAILURE
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The value of hitting training camps in PoK is different than hitting the HQ of LeT (Muridke) which is a sprawling complex that we literally did hit without little or no collateral damage. Plus, even the alternatives didn’t vanquish or cripple these orgs, bcz it’s state-sponsored.
Keshav Bedi@keshavbedi
This is one of the reason why Manmohan Singh government didn’t do a military strike post 26-11. It would have had limited practical utility and impact on the organisation, as US experience had shown. LeT camps were tin sheds and huts which could be rebuilt easily. Note that even sensible votaries of Operation Sindoor don’t claim that the operation inflicted any meaningful damage to the organisations it targeted.
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