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@somnath1978 Had Musharaf not faced advocates ire in pak , his four point formula would have been a done deal as MMS was also keen on that.. so ruling out talks isn't advisable imho ....

We shd stop pretending extending a hand of friendship to the devil earns any brownies, esp if the devil is of the islamist variety. Hitting Pak hard periodically earns us periods of peace - that is our best case. Keep Pak weak, bankrupt, mired in strife - our peace strategy..

@NotAfangirll_ @_pallavighosh @TVKVijayHQ Himanta biswa

@_pallavighosh @TVKVijayHQ Who is the CM in Assam?

Check out - congress jumping with joy at @TVKVijayHQ oath with rahul gandhi .. but kerala waits — as cant figure out who to make cm ..

@somnath1978 Every 6-7 years there used be some big scale attack from Pakistan and now after many kinetic response this has come down to 4-5 years hence data doesn't support our kinetic response strategy

Wrong objective framing = incorrect inferences. It is near-impossible, short of wars (mostly not even then), to chg "behaviour". Each action though queers the decisioning matrix for Pak. Surgical strikes -> Balakot -> Sindoor - each added some yrs of peace...

@ShekharGupta Or unless they are compensated by govt in some other way like Haifa

I understand venerable naval veterans debating strategic value of GNI. The econ viability of the transshipment hub is different. Why confuse strategic & commercial? It’ll be built by a company, not govt, and surely not the Navy. Nobody’ll invest 6-8 billion $ if it isn’t viable?

@somnath1978 It isn't much complicated i guess. He was fooled by Bibi that Iran will be destroyed by US - ISRAEL onslaught and he took the risk thinking the same . That's why FS went to Iranian embassy reconciling the fact they have got it all wrong. There is no logical reason other than dis

Some day, someone will perhaps write the inside story of why Modi visited Israel 2 days b4 the shooting started. Disregarding Amitava Ghosh and his ideological moorings, it is intensely puzzling at a realpolitik level too...

@johnstanly Itna agar trump socha hota to Israel Ke chakkar mein nahi phas jata is war mein…..

Everybody is talking about a ground offensive. It could be the case. But keep one thing in mind: the US doesn't have enough combat troops in West Asia to launch any ambitious ground invasion of Iran--a country of 90 million that's 70 times bigger than Israel. Some say trump might order to seize some islands in the Persian Gulf. Possible. Kharg Island is some 200 km from the Saudi coast. Abu Musa, which is controlled by Iran and claimed by the UAE, is some 60-70 om from the Emirati coast. Let's say the US troops managed to seize of them. How are they going to hold them? And even if they did, how is it going to impact the outcome of the war?

@somnath1978 @centerofright There clearly will be impact of this inflated fuel bill on currency in short term. FIIs will move out more funds out of India .

Fear-mongering👇. India has a gas supply crisis, not a generic fuel supply crisis. Crude oil sources are diversified, the external account is sufficiently robust to absorb $100 oil price, refining capacity far exceeds domestic demand.

@somnath1978 That's the answer to the question how serious the book should be taken

@dmuthuk Per capita gold dada … that would be fair comparison

I don't know whether you know this. An interesting data. Tamil Nadu with just 6% of India’s population, owns a whopping 28% of country's gold. It goes without saying that the state is number one in gold ownership. You know who is number two? Maharashtra owning 15% of country's gold. I always say perception is not reality. We assume many things and take it as truth. Always verify. For example, ask anyone. They would say Kerala is number one in gold. No doubt Keralites love gold. But it owns only 6% of country's gold, ranking number four after Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.

@dmuthuk Dada every developing country will be unequal . U can't compare 2700 $ per capita with 50000 $ per capita ...The more per capita increase the less unequal even india would become .. that's how countries develop

Loving the country does not mean ignoring the reality. There are arguments that in every country, only top 10% would thrive and the rest 90% struggles. So then what's unique about India? India is definitely unique in terms of poverty and inequality. I mentioned top 10% of Indians earn 57% of national income. Whereas in countries like Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, France and many others, top 10% earn only around 25% of national income. Even in an inequal society like US, top 10% earn no more than 30% of national income. I've given below GDP percapita of top 10 countries (not including tiny countries) both absolute and for the bottom 90%. See for yourself. For example, GDP percapita of US is $89,105. If you remove top 10%, the balance still has a decent GDP percapita of $68,800. Here is the list: United States: $89,105 and $68,800 Germany: $55,911 and $47,100 United Kingdom: $54,949 and $45,100 Canada: $53,558 and $45,800 France: $46,792 and $41,200 South Korea: $34,642 and $28,000 Japan: $33,956 and $27,900 Italy: $41,091 and $33,700 Australia: $64,547 and $52,300 Spain: $36,192 and $31,900 Not only we are creating less income and wealth but that too is very concentrated.

@VJSWRITER I read somewhere that their names are not in National War Memorial. Is it true ??

Sacred Bajrang Post, blood irrigated its soil Their bodies were LOC for enemy Parents of Capts Amit Bhardwaj & Saurabh Kalia, 4 Jat, possess most powerful memory: Urns of blood-streaked soil from Bajrang, 17386 ft, Kaksar LoC, where sons laid down lives during Kargil

@VJSWRITER We really have to question what is normalcy in Kashmir? Lesser no terrorist acts doesn't mean there is no terrorism in Kashmir. my feeling is unless we put heavy penalty on Pakistan for terrorism in Kashmir ,it is only a matter of time that they will revive infiltration

The true sign of normalcy in JK would have been for VVIPs in Kashmir or on visit to reduce security and demonstrate, since there were no attacks on them, tourists were coming in record numbers and India / Bharat had been put on path of zero militancy, zero infiltration.

Right. When the Government maintains huge security convoys for VIPs in Kashmir without a single attack on them during the years of so-called normalcy, why did Government not have security for tourists in an isolated meadow even though nothing had happened there?

@VJSWRITER I agree that pakis should never be trusted ...

@VJSWRITER There was an unwritten understanding that terrorists won't attack tourists like this .. Though there have been couple of odd incidents earlier also but more or less this understanding or unwritten rule stood the test of time . That red line was crossed this time

@bsdhanoa You having FOMO bcoz nobody is listening to you???

Veterans on WA groups: 70 percent - silent spectators. 10 percent - serial forwarders. 10 percent - active conspiracy theorists. 5 percent - certifiable. 4 percent - politicised. 1 percent - talk sense but not listened to.

@somnath1978 Totally agree … A fractured or even divided Pak is better for India any day … this pacifist notion of stable Pak is a strategy fraught with too many dangers which we have seen time n again in the past …

@VJSWRITER The ‘Uniform force’ division of 10 RR which were sent to ladhak are coming back . That will further help I guess

Kathua is not under Northern Command 16 Corps. It is under Western Command 9 Corps at Yol (HP). 9 Corps is not into CIOPs. Hence, Kathua does not have RR grid or “reception area” for terrorists who penetrate the IB. Hence, we see ad hoc large mobilisation. Unified HQ vision?

@somnath1978 As Stalin said Quantity has a quality of its own … Atleast they have quantity … we have neither …

@somnath1978 Everything has been checked million times already …. What the hell will they check now unless they are adding any new jet

@somnath1978 Sam Bahadur too ….