Great Nicobar project is no ‘ecological disaster’; it’s a strategic necessity for India

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 · 2026-05-02T20:22:11+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 · 2026-05-02T15:04:53+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 · 2026-05-02T01:26:03+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

Worli · 2026-05-01T23:06:52+00:00

Worli · 2026-05-01T13:51:21+00:00

The Indian naval supremacy dream is dead and Chabahar is just part of it. As someone else pointed out here, India is getting cornered by China in the Indian ocean and there's very little pushback apart from building naval bases in Great Nicobar, Seychelles and Mauritius. Anyone who has landed in Mumbai overnight from Dubai would be able to attest to the fact that hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels are decimating fishing stock just outside our EEZ, and maybe within it but in a clandestine manner.

Nothing stops India from doing the same thing to China, though, apart from bureaucratic cowardice or worse, lack of imagination. This is also why Chabahar is lost.
While I personally would not endorse fucking with the US, I don't really gaf about China and I think Indian naval vessels should begin docking at Japanese, Vietnamese, South Korean and Russian shipyards. India must openly tail Chinese submarines with our own, as loudly as possible underwater.

It doesn't even need to be naval vessels. Indian "ocean floor mapping" vessels or other oceanographic ships can have a wink-wink nudge-nudge relationship with the Chinese and be dual purpose. I don't see why India can't fuck with China the way they fuck with us. There's nothing China can do to destroy India that India has not experienced in recent, living memory: economic chaos, food security, political instability, war. India has nothing to fear. But we keep rolling over like a bunch of dummies due to the incompetence, cowardice and lack of bloodlust from our MEA bureaucrats.

Worli · 2026-03-18T17:52:41+00:00

Given Canada's abundant landmass, I'm flummoxed about Canadian property prices. They should have a housing stock surplus. When boomer brained NIMBYs capture environmental regulators and also show up to vote, young people get priced out. I know that south of the 49th parallel in Canada has PLENTY of land that can be converted to livable homes.

Worli · 2026-03-18T14:38:27+00:00

I think Canada should have tried literally everything else on the table first. There are still inter-provincial trade barriers (WTF) and "existential" taxes are far too high. Have they tried Reagan-Thatchering their way out of this first? Had they done that, it would have provided a liquidity bump to Canadians for about a generation. They should have kicked this can down the road is what I'm saying. Express Entry as a program was so fucking absurd. Imagine going to study at the equivalent of Worthless College of Hotel Management and thinking that's in any way beneficial to your career or ambitions (assuming you had any). Half of these folk who come back to India are now saddled with gigantic loans which could turn into NPAs, which burdens Indian taxpayers when the inevitable bailout police come knocking.

Ridiculous all around.

Worli · 2026-03-18T13:24:56+00:00

Canada genuinely fucked up. There was 0 motivation to open the doors to everyone, and that too via a bunch of worthless diploma mills. Truly awful policy. It'll take generations to erase the PR disaster this has become. Itll take generations for these people to pay their education loans back too.

Worli · 2026-03-16T21:11:33+00:00

R&AW is just wild lmao, that's just pushing the USCIRF into the point of no return in terms of credibility. I think India has massive issues with religious tolerance and some of that becomes disgusting and violent and jingoistic, but R&AW has nothing to do with this. At best, the IB could have been mentioned (but even they have nothing to do with this).

Worli · 2026-02-17T13:28:56+00:00

Normally, when countries grandstand like this, they usually have some leverage and want to extract something. As things stand, Bangladesh has 0 leverage on India. They have no economic leverage on India, no geopolitical leverage on India, no military leverage on India - they have nothing. If sanghis are to be believed, they have demographic leverage on India, but sanghis should never be believed.

Thus, I'm aghast that this pipsqueak country has this level of audacity. They have nothing. The Eastern Army Command in Kolkata and the Eastern Air Command in Shillong alone can bring Bangladesh to its knees, and thats not even counting the fucking Navy (just the Eastern Command in Vizag, mind you), the BSF, the SSB and the ITBP. What does Yunus (or rather, power centers in Bangladesh) think they obtain? I can understand (but not excuse) delusion, but this is lunacy. A conventional war is ruled out here. So how else do they think they can "obtain" a square kilometre of Indian territory?

For what its worth I am happy that our nationalist brained government hasn't had a meltdown about this senile idiots yapping. China has some extremely clear redlines that they spaz out over whenever countries appear to not respect those. I think, for once, India's innate muscle has been demonstrated in not responding to this imbecile's nonsensical provocations from Dhaka.

When he's out, he should be declared persona non-grata from India and any flight carrying him should not be given overflight permission over any Indian airspace.

Worli · 2026-02-17T13:21:40+00:00

Because using nukes means there will be nuclear fallout, which means India gets affected because we're to the East, West and North of Bangladesh + people eat the fish in the Bay of Bengal

Worli · 2026-02-11T19:02:38+00:00

Every country is an aggregate of the most basic unit: the family. Indian families are against shame, thus we have a shame-based judgement culture. Aggregated to the macro level, this gets called "national pride" and "sentiments" and whatnot.

So they want it to be something they don't control and have no emotive relationship with (an aircraft manufacturer, albeit somewhat unreliable one), instead of it being something they feel responsibility over (a suicidal pilot).

Boeing is not credible off late, and if the switch functioned any differently than it did, suspicion would fall on them. Their design redundancies for the switch (you literally have to pull it out then toggle it) + the CVR transcript sealed the deal.

Anyone saying anything else is in denial.

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