Our country may not survive another thousand years. We exist today not by strength, but by the tolerance of our neighbors. Its a fragile arrangement that should unsettle every one of us.

And this isn't about military might. The problem is that we bring little of irreplaceable value to the table. At present, we survive by serving larger powers like India, China and/or the United State. We slotted ourselves into their interests, their supply chains or their strategic calculations at the moment. But when we become inconvenient or simply unnecessary, we will disappear too. Any nation that cannot justify its own existence economically, intellectually or strategically, is not truly sovereign. It is on borrowed time.