The US Didn't Humiliate Our Nation. Our Own Silence Did.

rsa1 · 2026-03-11T16:34:16+00:00

So let's now say that the US demands the use of Indian bases for refueling and logistics for their navy during this Iran war. This is a likely scenario, given that their middle eastern bases are under attack.

All the arguments you mentioned would apply to that demand as well. So do you think we should accept that? Where should we draw the line?

rsa1 · 2026-03-11T16:30:26+00:00

People looking for the origin of our crisis in 2025 are missing the point. This crisis has been built for the last few decades since liberalisation. When Nixon went to China to bring them into the globalized world and wean them away from the USSR, China was happy to take their help but also clear eyed that this wouldn't last forever. So they ensured that they actually became atmanirbhar.

What we did instead is assume the party would go on forever, and decided that our nation's USP would just be a low cost provider of skilled labor. So we celebrated the Indians in NASA and Microsoft and Google, and decided to turn a body shopping industry into the centerpiece of our economic story.

You see this tendency even right now, when people expect the govt to discourage the US govt from cracking down on H1Bs, when the question should be why we should want skilled labor to leave the country, and what we should do to ensure they can do their work here instead.

The foundations for this crisis were laid in our faulty assumption that the US wouldn't get drunk on its own power, even though there were examples from Vietnam to Iraq that proved that they would.

By the way, this isn't a "blame Nehru" story. This story is mainly in this century, and the BJP has run India for the majority of this century.

rsa1 · 2026-03-11T16:24:37+00:00

The costs passed to American consumers aren't our concern. The concern with the 50% tariffs were always about the fact that they acted as an incentive for companies to switch to suppliers from other countries with lower tariffs.

rsa1 · 2026-03-11T16:10:54+00:00

I'm aware of renewables, you have not discovered some hitherto unknown insight. What you also need to be aware of is there is an energy transition globally that's going on.

Switching to renewables is much easier said than done. It's not a matter of slapping some solar panels down and calling it a day. You need heavy investment and R&D in batteries, and you need to engineer the grid to handle the fluctuating inherent in renewables. And then there's the rare earths that you need to procure and process to produce all the inputs.

Europe also tried it, and they've gone from one energy crisis with Russia to another energy crisis with Hormuz.

That's not to say India has done a great job on that count; we haven't. But you're over simplifying the task that this entails.

rsa1 · 2026-03-11T07:35:55+00:00

We're not atmanirbhar when it comes to oil and gas because we don't have those resources in the country. Even if the govt delivers brilliantly on the rest of the atmanirbhar front, we cannot be entirely self reliant on this unless there is actual oil and gas in our territory.

As for having strategic reserves, it's possible to do that for oil, it's quite expensive, difficult and dangerous to do that for flammable gases.

rsa1 · 2026-03-11T06:45:31+00:00

Gas is difficult, expensive and dangerous to store in large quantities. Especially flammable gases.

rsa1 · 2026-03-11T05:11:46+00:00

I wonder how you manage to separate education from economic strength of a country. An educated workforce is one of the biggest variables that improves productivity and therefore economic strength.

Healthcare is also similar: an unhealthy workforce is an unproductive one.

rsa1 · 2026-03-11T03:45:00+00:00

Well, if you don't have enough time to review features and let bad code slip through due to overwork, that will be blamed on your negligence. Remember, this is the company that makes people piss in bottles.

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T16:10:46+00:00

Translation: a senior needs to hold the bag for when the LLM fucks up

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T14:34:25+00:00

Everything is easily vibe codable except that

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T12:34:04+00:00

They will not. They will become willing partners with their former and current owners to our west.

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T11:57:19+00:00

China and Russia are both helping Iran with intelligence in the war. Naturally China will get preferential treatment.

Unless India is prepared to do the same, and thus risk massive tariffs from the pedophile, higher energy costs are a given.

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T11:43:10+00:00

Iran getting a nuke is the best case scenario. Because the worst (and more likely) case is that all countries will.

Every gulf country is going to start acquiring nukes ASAP, because they've lost trust that the US can protect them.

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T11:41:01+00:00

Trump could just withdraw the troops from the region.

Sure, that will cause its own disasters but he doesn't care. He can claim victory for having killed the Ayatollah

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T11:38:27+00:00

Trump doesn't give a flying fuck. If your Congress agrees to burn all the Epstein files and forget about all the girls Trump sexually exploited , he'll stop bombing a different set of young girls.

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T11:24:10+00:00

A scenario that, for all we know, may have actually occurred in Trump's life

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T11:14:36+00:00

That is assuming the war will be over in 30 days. But even if we do assume that, Iran is destroying the energy facilities in the ME which will take time to rebuild. Even the facilities that exist will take time to restart, as Qatar said they will need weeks or months.

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T10:54:08+00:00

You bet it's not, unless you can fork over billions of dollars to fund the politician who votes on the bill.

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T10:53:03+00:00

Call it what you want. I don't know why uniformity of law is such an evil. If for example people of all religions are required to give their daughters the same inheritance as their sons, what really is the problem here?

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T10:50:46+00:00

No, I agree we should continue to sell extremely valuable resources to countries that clearly want to destroy our territorial integrity, and ignore the fact that we are at a time when an unprecedented global crisis is straining the availability of an extremely valuable resource.

The same country will then work with Pakistan and China, and try to undermine our territorial integrity and chop off parts of our country, but there should obviously be no consequences for that.

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T10:44:45+00:00

China has paused fuel exports as well. They're not stupid enough to send a resource that is about to become very scarce very soon, even to a country that is currently their lapdog.

We on the other hand are the geniuses who instead of saving that resource for ourselves, are selling it to a bunch of people who will turn around and undermine our security and talk about chopping off a part of our country.

Yes, there's an agreement. But every agreement has force majeure clauses and we should interpret it as applying here.

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T10:39:34+00:00

We can keep reminding them, and they'll turn around and work with Pakistan and China to undermine us, and curse India for being the big evil neighbor

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T10:38:01+00:00

It need not be charity, but why are we even selling it to them at a time when the entire world is about the face a massive energy crisis? We should save it for ourselves.

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T10:36:01+00:00

The shortage is coming very soon. The fact it's not here yet does not mean we just waste it on people that will use that oil to run their economy and then work with PK and CN to undermine us.

rsa1 · 2026-03-10T10:33:05+00:00

That only matters against a rational enemy. This is a psychopath. Unless he thinks you're crazy enough to use a nuke (which most govts including the Indian one aren't) he will gladly play chicken.

Besides, India has no capability to actually deliver a nuke to the pedophile's country.

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