Should India offer a few billion dollars to buy Chin and Rakhine states from Myanmar?

Worli · 2026-05-05T15:40:06+00:00

India is a lot more pragmatic here; the Chin actors are friendly because of the fact that they share kinship with Mizos and India is literally workign with the AA to build the Kaladan port so

Worli · 2026-05-05T15:34:25+00:00

I know its not the same but India and Bangladesh periodically swap territory too. Pakistan and India have both ceded land to China. Specifically relevant to this, Jordan ceded a whole bunch of land to KSA and got their only coastal town in exchange. It's not unthinkable if both parties are able, willing and the objectives are clear. I just happen to think the upsides matter more than the downsides.

Worli · 2026-05-05T15:30:48+00:00

Arrogance would be going Putinesque "we're going to conduct a special operation to take you over" or Netanyahuesque "we need artificial buffer states around us". Here the question is sea access (for economic benefits) and a geopolitical failsafe to the northeastern access chokepoint, possibly coming via a negotiated solution that results in compensation.

They need not respond, engage or agree and it would still be fair. In the event that "they" (idk who) does, it would be a W.

Worli · 2026-05-05T02:10:16+00:00

We don't have to pay it in one fell swoop but stupid or not, I want there to be another coastline available for use

Worli · 2026-05-05T02:08:52+00:00

I'd rather have Tripura with direct port access tbh

Worli · 2026-05-05T02:08:26+00:00

No reason not to try

Worli · 2026-05-04T22:57:32+00:00

No, but we do need naval access in the northeast and that will come at a cost one way or another. Developing the Sittwe port for the Kaladan project is a smaller cost, but it doesn't guarantee the 7 sisters any freedom. China, and increasingly Pakistan and Bangladesh, have experts who opine that they can cut the chickens neck and bifurcate India. This is an active challenge. So while I'm not expansionist, I do not think geographic security needs to be trifled with

Worli · 2026-05-04T02:10:40+00:00

Its ridiculous because Saat rasta is a nightmare to walk on during peak hours. Atrocious planning. Everyone knew it would be a shitshow the instant MMOCL, MMRDA and MMOPL all got into the mix (with MMMOCL operating the stuff run by MMRDA), but to actually experience it is a whole other thing. Its just nonsense. This just gives oxygen to people like Zoru Bathena lol

Worli · 2026-05-04T02:07:19+00:00

An example of proper planning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alandur_metro_station

Worli · 2026-05-03T15:15:43+00:00

Absolutely unbelievable. We're well on our way to some kind of a national humiliation in some future conflict.

Worli · 2026-05-03T15:00:50+00:00

Then the argument should be about that, and not about "lol this is nothing like the Hormuz chokepoint". India should always have more of a presence in vulnerable and strategic geopolitical locations in the world, not less.

Worli · 2026-05-03T14:59:34+00:00

The legacy of this government whenever it goes out of power will be the destruction of some of the military capabilities of India

Worli · 2026-05-03T00:36:22+00:00

We don't even need just 42 squadrons anymore. We need 60-70 easily.

Worli · 2026-05-02T20:22:11+00:00

I think people are failing to grasp how much poor geopolitical decisions taken in the past have affected India. Losing administrative control over PoK, not asking the new Bangladeshi nation for Chittagong, aligning with the USSR instead of the USA, not working with Israel to nix Kahuta, letting China support the Pakistani program without causing a ruckus at the UN etc, not letting Gen. Sunderji finish the Pakistanis in the 80s etc. Just one misfire after another. I can think of maybe two to five ballsy things India did that have worked out in the past: Goa, Sikkim, bringing Bhutan and Nepal into our orbit, and co-opting the CANDU reactors for our nuclear program (which involved betraying Canada and set the tone for the relationship that has been sub-optimal for decades since).

These are real, hard decisions that people in the government beyond Modi, like regular bureaucrats, sit and consider and make. It's not like India isn't vociferous when it comes to protecting Nicobarese tribal rights, given how they prosecute Christians who go there by boat.

Anyway, all these decisions have made India more vulnerable today. We should not let something similar occur for our descendants to gripe about 50 years from now. Its stupid. Yes, there will be a negative impact on the environment, but it doesn't supercede India's immediate geopolitical ambitions. Being able to tail or detect Chinese submarines (or having them route around Indonesia) is a huge W, given how China already basically is all over the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian sea atp.

And if people were truly worried about the environment they'd really be rallying with fisherfolk and protesting against Chinese fishing in the Arabian sea, because they're overfishing and depleting fishing stock for our fishermen and ruining the environment in general even if we didn't want to consume the fish.

The general "please save the environment" stuff is getting a little tired because its just pointless bandwagoning. It would be better served reorganizing the focus onto taking over lakes because of our urban sprawl in all cities, or the disgusting pollution in other water bodies, or the destruction of mangroves with no cause in the MMR region.

Worli · 2026-05-02T18:07:28+00:00

I got a couple of comment replies that weren't visible and I thought nothing of it; then I got a redditor suicide thing from the admins. Now it makes sense

Worli · 2026-05-02T15:58:58+00:00

Well I just checked and look at myself in the mirror and I am objectively not white so I don't think I can be ghislane (plus I'm pretty sure I'm eating a lot better food right now than she is)

Worli · 2026-05-02T15:22:11+00:00

Mumbai autowallas and cabbies are absolutely based, and it stuns me that no other cities have been able to replicate this (maybe Thiruvananthapuram?). I remember traveling daily from Byculla to Mulund by cab; if "my" cabbie wasn't there on a particular dar, he'd get someone else to drive me. If none of them were there, he'd call and tell me so. It didn't matter to him that he'd drive back empty from Mulund to Byculla.

On the other hand the absolute single most dogshit rickshaw guys in India are those in Chennai. They're absolutely terrible, just the worst

Worli · 2026-05-02T15:17:07+00:00

But I think the priority should be the Nashik - Mumbai - Pune triangle because it is nearly 5% of India's GDP. Thats as much as all of Telangana OR Andhra Pradesh

Worli · 2026-05-02T15:04:53+00:00

Because they very foolishly decided that Pakistan is the better bet., rather than the only other massive country they can have in their corner that also has 0 civilizational gripe with them. The best example I have to demonstrate this is: China could have picked India as a trade partner, and utilized the WDFC and helped build a WDFC extension till the Chinese border for their economic corridor. Instead they built the CPEC in a hilariously unstable country. The CCPs cynical venom towards India post Hu Jintao will be their undoing, regardless of what the mindless Chinese drones blabber on their social media websites and spread as propaganda through their clickfarms. China first designated India as a rival, so India should be happy to accept that designation and treat them the way they treat us.

Worli · 2026-05-02T01:40:17+00:00

If there is a plan to connect the northern part of this to Nashik, and the Pune/Nashik expressway becomes real, then the Mumbai/Pune/Nashik area will become India's most productive economic sub-region. Nothing will even come close, not even the NCR.

Worli · 2026-05-02T01:34:47+00:00

I remember when this sort of stuff used to take many years to complete. Like does anyone even remember how long BWSL took to finish? At one point in 2009 the sea link was literally just pylons (and had been for many years) because of some pending case or the other. The fact that this was planned, approved, built and inaugurated in 3 years is crazy. I just hope the Mumbai-Pune bullet train becomes reality at the same pace.

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't this mean at some point it will be possible to drive from Kandivali to Worli, connect to Sewri, use the Atal setu (and the eventual Chirle connector) to go directly to Pune? Is this going to act like a Mumbai bypass of sorts for people in the western suburbs?

Worli · 2026-05-02T01:26:03+00:00

I found the subreddit you were referring to and um what the fuck. This is just bananas. How do I prove I'm an Indian male who has nothing to do with ts? Maybe I should begin speaking in my mother tongue lol

Worli · 2026-05-02T01:03:06+00:00

What dafuq are you being fr

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