@Gaurab Only nation under sanctions develop tech of their own. Iran delivered gas-turbine tech to Russia in 2025
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You cannot buy a new gas turbine until 2030. Order books at GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi stretch to 2029. Turbine prices have nearly tripled since 2019. Every AI data center needs power and every gas plant needs a turbine. And every turbine has one part that bottlenecks the entire industry: The blade. It has to survive in gas 500°C above the melting point of the metal it's made from and spin at up to 20,000 RPM under 10,000 g of centrifugal force. Each blade is grown as a single crystal of nickel superalloy, pulled through a vacuum furnace at 3 mm per minute. A set of blades costs $600,000 and takes 90 weeks to grow. The same metallurgy powers modern jet engines. Only 3 companies on Earth can build one. China spent $42 billion trying to catch up. They bought a Russian fighter engine, took it apart, and copied every part. Their copy ran 30 hours between overhauls versus 400 for the original. Modern Western engines run 4,000. You can reverse engineer the shape of a turbine blade. You cannot reverse engineer 60 years of metallurgy.
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@Prayag_Krishna Elon Musk may be world's first trillionaire by 2027, Adani in 2028, Ambani in 2033. I will personally say around 2030-33 myself if blind folks like you want him to effectively rule all Indian trade.
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Grt Nicobar is India's Kharg Island + Iranian coast straddling the Malacca Straits. Why shd we look at such anodyne factors when weightier considerations like a few trees are at stake?
Rahul Gandhi@RahulGandhi
I travelled through Great Nicobar today. These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow. The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language. So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.
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@Prayag_Krishna Build the military base first since the ENTIRE argument was first about national security. Then talk about trans-shipment. Right now the plan calls for CASINOS for profiteering dude. HARD NO. IN has built TOP-NOTCH naval ports while being respectful of natural reserve.
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@HormuzLetter This is so that the U.S. can say: "wee, wee, we didn't break the ceasefire! Iran did", when Iran naturally retaliates.
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BREAKING: Israel is preparing to announce the failure of Iran negotiations, with the US giving Israel immediate authorization to strike Iran's energy facilities after the announcement, per Channel 12.
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"Without presence, geography is wasted."
The Great Nicobar Project is a strategic necessity for India. Located just 140–150 km from the Strait of Malacca, a chokepoint through which roughly 25% of global trade, 35% of oil, and 20% of gas by sea, flows, it sits near a route critical to China's energy and trade lifelines.
Beyond the transshipment terminal, it is the military installation that matters most. India needs a stronger naval presence in the region, something that becomes essential in the event of a conflict.
GNP is as important and critical as Siachen, Siliguri Corridor and other essential posts for India.
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@Prayag_Krishna There are dozens of profitable and in-time+budget ports developed by others. You don't need to suck Adani's dick - the corrupt man is fully enroute to be a TRILLIONAIRE by 2028-30 in a poor nation like India.
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@lenkite Only one toxic businessman was able to deliver world class ports in my city, so you should kindly take your stupid opinions somewhere else (he's otw to deliver stage 2 and 3 of the project 12 years in advance due to it's overwhelming success...)
Meanwhile US can't even build HSR
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@Prayag_Krishna I am VERY happy to have state funded monopolies which work in the best interest of the nation. Not one corrupt, 3-digit fully COMPROMISED billionaire. Kindly give project to Indian Navy. Why are you such an Adani Slave ?
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@Prayag_Krishna When India STOPS obeying U.S. diktats thanks to pressure put on Adani, I will agree with you. Until then best to keep toxic businessmen out of national-interest contracts. Otherwise Indian port will host U.S. ships.
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@Prayag_Krishna When the anti-national trash here obeys U.S. diktats because they are scared of their election funder being implicated in corruption, then yes, I really wish we were like China in this regard.
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@Prayag_Krishna Until the U.S. agrees to DISMISS all corruption charges, not merely temporarily suspend them to apply pressure on India to obey U.S. diktat, like Trump is doing, Adani contracts are TOXIC and for national interest should be suspended.
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@Prayag_Krishna Btw, your own former National General Secretary of the BJP, showing BELLY to U.S. x.com/MattooShashank…
Shashank Mattoo@MattooShashank
"India agreed to stop buying oil from Iran. We agreed to stop buying oil from Russia despite so much criticism from our opposition. India agreed to a 50% tariff without saying too much. So where exactly is India not doing enough to work with America?" questions Ram Madhav
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@Prayag_Krishna Give port to Indian Navy then. They have built the "jewel of the Arabian sea" under-budget And in time and at a fraction of the cost. And respect natural areas with strict adherence. No corrupt 3-digit billionaire.
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🚨Russia just tried to calm the markets.
That alone tells you how nervous the room is.
Moscow says the UAE's OPEC exit won't trigger an imminent price war.
But think about who is saying this and why.
Russia needs oil above $70 to fund a war.
Saudi Arabia needs discipline to defend its budget breakeven.
Both are now trying to convince the market and each other that losing the cartel's most credible swing producer changes nothing.
It changes everything.
Every barrel the UAE adds freely is a barrel Saudi Arabia or Russia would have to cut to hold the price floor.
That math doesn't work indefinitely and the UAE has zero incentive to show restraint for the benefit of 2 countries whose geopolitical interests increasingly diverge from Abu Dhabi's.
"No imminent price war" is not the same as "no price war."
It's a timeline question, not a structural one.
Watch what OPEC+ does at its next meeting.
Watch whether Saudi holds cuts while UAE ramps. Watch how long Moscow keeps calling this manageable.
The cartel isn't dead yet.
But it's running on credibility it no longer has the membership to back up.
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@Prayag_Krishna @somnath1978 Our own minister admitted we ramped down oil imports in Feb under U.S. pressure - nobody is making up shit. Do you want the video - it already went viral. And did you even read what Putin said ? We now obey U.S. 30 day waiver like a dog.
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@lenkite @somnath1978 We never stopped buying russian oil lmao, so who's making up shit here?
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@Gemsof_Bharat Kindly give port development to Indian Navy. IN has successfully built excellent strategic ports under budget and delivered before time - remember Indian Navy built the "jewel in the Arabian Sea" - INS Kadamba. NO ADANI & Casinos!
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Only clown here is you Dhruv.
I won't go into explaining to you how strategically important Nicobar islands are because you are bought off by China.
People living outside of India should not have a say in what India does with it's territory.
Dhruv Rathee@dhruv_rathee
Anyone who calls Great Nicobar as India's Strait of Hormuz is the biggest clown 🤡
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@XYZXYZ_777 @VarunKrRana Give port development to Indian Navy. They have successfully built strategic port under budget before while respecting critical, natural wild-lands. No corrupt 3-digit billionaire who wants to also built casinos.
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Nicobar sits at the intersection of Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea.
Whoever controls it controls the Malacca chokepoint.
China has spent decades trying to surround India with ports.
And some people want to stop India from developing its own backyard.
Geography doesn’t wait for environmental reports. 🇮🇳
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Waiting for Dhruv Rathee to explain in a video how trees in Nicobar are the only thing standing between us and the melting of the polar ice caps.
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@Prayag_Krishna @somnath1978 Yes and that is why stopping our oil contracts with Russia as a consequence of Adani was a very stupid thing to do. Then we were FORCED to get 30d waiver from U.S. and buy at $5-10 above Brent. U.S. will anyday stop the waiver as well - we stupidly knelt to U.S. thanks to Adani
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@lenkite @somnath1978 Also you might have not gotten the memo but there was a massive oil shortage
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@Prayag_Krishna @somnath1978 You are the super-moron or lack basic reading comprehension skills. India was a preferred customer getting $10-13 BELOW brent in early Feb 2026 itself. Kindly check before posting and looking like a retard.
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@lenkite @somnath1978 It was never 10 to 13 dollar off moron, that was only in the initial 2022 era of imports, the actual diff was like 2 dollars at the time of the whole Trump Russian oil pressure thing
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@Prayag_Krishna @somnath1978 We earlier did not care about any US sanctions on Russian oil. But after Adani went to Trump in early Feb to request him to suspend the cases, pressure was applied back on India to toe the U.S. line or let the investigation case proceed. A wonderful [Slave Collar]
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@lenkite @somnath1978 You can tell me what you want to say, I've read everything and they have nothing on him
Also what did we give away to Trump lol? we got one of the best deal in Asia
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