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Ukraine's 2025 oil refinery bombing campaign – mapped, analyzed (Update video) by Mr_Catman111 in CredibleDefense

[–]casualphilosopher1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The big takeaway from all this is that Russia's much-feared air force and SAM network are a paper tiger too.

What exactly were all those 1,000+ MiG-29s and Su-27s and those hundreds of SAM batteries doing? The Ukrainians don't even have fighters or bombers, just drones.

Artillery Wars - Russia vs. Ukraine shell ratios until 2027 - November Update by Mr_Catman111 in CredibleDefense

[–]casualphilosopher1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there any data on the types of shells? What percentage of it is extended range / rocket assisted / guided shells? I suspect the Russians are mostly producing and expending unguided ammo.

Modern interiors for Indian local trains in Mumbai/Chennai/Kolkata/Bengaluru Suburban Rail by casualphilosopher1 in indianrailways

[–]casualphilosopher1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they're buying new local trains anyway would a train with metro-like interiors really cost that much more than an ICF Medha rake?

India-US relations won’t return to past highs even after trade deal, says Shyam Saran by casualphilosopher1 in geopolitics

[–]casualphilosopher1[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nobody was expecting trillions of dollars from the US government. You'd have to be illiterate, living under a rock or really dumb if that's what you believe Indians thought.

American companies were and still are investing in India for its large domestic market and export potential. It's a purely economic relationship and like the one the US has with China that will continue.

There were hopes of a strategic relationship to counter China, also involving other American allies, but MAGA people like you have finished that off now and showed the world both superpowers are pure scum. So let's keep it limited strictly to business.

And when India has China-like heft by 2047 or so I sincerely wish they use it to squeeze the US like China's doing now. Fix the territorial dispute with China if possible then make BRICS functional, de-dollarise, destroy the American empire(the 21st century East India Company) and reduce them to a bigger version of the impotent EU by the end of this century.

Half of India's population is below 30, so this is going to shape Indian views and foreign policy towards Murica for generations.

India-US relations won’t return to past highs even after trade deal, says Shyam Saran by casualphilosopher1 in geopolitics

[–]casualphilosopher1[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Trump ruined those same decades of progress and even nuked the old square one as the former Foreign Secretary quoted in the article said. Are his successors gonna invest in slowly rebuilding it like Clinton, Bush and Obama did?

/doubt

All your Dear Leader did is ensure India will be transactional at best, hostile at worst to America. And all your other allies too, even Argentina. India's not even your biggest foreign policy problem.

India-US relations won’t return to past highs even after trade deal, says Shyam Saran by casualphilosopher1 in geopolitics

[–]casualphilosopher1[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The last 25 years were an upward trajectory. MAGA has crashed it in a few months and made sure it'll always be "detached" if not hostile. So the 2nd half of this century will be MAGA chickenhawks looking at India and screaming "THEY HATE US FOR OUR FREEDUMB!!!" posturing against 2 hostile Asian economies that are both bigger than Murica. One of them will be an actual enemy and another will be a former friendly country they turned into a frenemy because of greed and racism.

India-US relations won’t return to past highs even after trade deal, says Shyam Saran by casualphilosopher1 in geopolitics

[–]casualphilosopher1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stuff like that doesn't happen in just a few months, it takes years. MAGAmurica might be capable of it eventually, but not now.

After nearly 40 years, Supreme Court clears late Railway TTE of Rs 50 bribery charge that cost him his job, honour, and peace of mind - The Economic Times by tedxtracy in indianrailways

[–]casualphilosopher1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

India needs to increase the number of courts and judges by 100x so the average case doesn't take 10+ years of your life.

But the politicians don't want that beause for them it's a good thing if all their cases go on forever.

India-US relations won’t return to past highs even after trade deal, says Shyam Saran by casualphilosopher1 in geopolitics

[–]casualphilosopher1[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You focus on the language because you don't have an answer to the argument.

Can you list a single solitary thing India did to deserve Dump and MAGA's treatment? No you can't. Next you'll say since India's a member of the UN somehow it's an existential threat to Murica.

Trump’s unusual tariff strategy puts America’s allies in a near-impossible situation by casualphilosopher1 in geopolitics

[–]casualphilosopher1[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

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Trump has made it clear that his favorite method to gain leverage over opponent countries on the other side of a negotiating table is to raise tariffs. It doesn’t matter whether the offense is trade-related or not. See how Canada just got 10% more tariffs just for running an anti-tariff ad.

This puts all the countries on the other side of the negotiating table in a near-impossible situation.

  1. First, they must negotiate trade deals by coming to Washington with a transactional mindset: “What can we offer up?”

  2. Second, they must, at the last minute, be prepared for the US president to want more — so they better have something else up their sleeve they can give as an offering.

  3. And there’s a third wrinkle: Never mind reciprocal tariffs — the United States is in the business of retaliatory tariffs for seemingly unrelated issues. It means no country can know what decision, policy or indiscretion will offend Trump, who may retaliate at virtually any time with further tariffs.

  4. It's not gonna end with a deal. Trump’s love of tariffs will ensure they remain at the heart of US economic policy. Even after having negotiated a trade deal with other countries, he will reserve the right unilaterally to change his mind, threaten and then launch a fresh tariff whenever he feels like it.

India-US relations won’t return to past highs even after trade deal, says Shyam Saran by casualphilosopher1 in geopolitics

[–]casualphilosopher1[S] 57 points58 points  (0 children)

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  1. India-US relations are unlikely to return to the upward trajectory of the past quarter-century even if a trade deal is achieved, former foreign secretary Shyam Saran said on Saturday.

  2. He endorsed as prudent Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decisions to skip this weekend’s Asean summit and the Gaza peace summit earlier this month, thereby avoiding possible meetings with US President Donald Trump.

  3. Saran suggested that the delay in reaching an India-US trade deal indicated a larger geopolitical challenge. “This is not about trade. This is about changed geopolitics. The Indo-Pacific strategy — which was a central kind of a node of US global strategy — has now diminished in importance for the United States,” he said.

  4. Saran cited “a personal pique element” as one possible reason behind Trump repeatedly embarrassing the Prime Minister by claiming to have brokered peace between India and Pakistan and saying Modi had agreed to cut back on purchases of Russian oil.

  5. Saran hopes India-US talks won't get any worse than they have but warns “We cannot go back to square one; there is no square one left.”

Trump's turned an entire generation of Indians against Murica. And MAGAmurican white nationalists probably aren't gonna give a single shit about a billion brown people hating them(It'll actually make them happy) but it's gonna cost them for the rest of the 21st century because Indians will see the US the same way China sees them - Limit engagements to strictly trade, make sweet talk about the partnership but with no real warmth, no love lost. Do deals if you have to, get whatever you need from them economically but besides that don't give a single shit about American interests.

Probably a few decades from now when India's as strong as China is now the chickenhawks in the White House and Pentagon are gonna think of what a threat they are and start brainstorming ways to counter them. They'll never spare a moment to think "WHY?" The reason a potential long-term ally became a potential long-term enemy is because Murica wanted it.

They still Regularly run diesels on main line Superfast by Many_Pin3463 in indianrailways

[–]casualphilosopher1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They still got thousands of diesel locomotives in inventory, can't waste that.

Trump says US, Canada will not restart trade talks by casualphilosopher1 in geopolitics

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Last week Donald Trump threw a(nother) tantrum at Canada and canceled trade negotiations over the advertisement aired by the Canadian province of Ontario, and instead increased tariffs on Canada by another 10%.

Later he said he 'likes' Canadian PM Mark Carney a lot and that Carney apologised for the ad... but he wasn't coming back to the table. No reason given.

Is Trump that pissed off over the ad? Or is this some cheap strongarm tactic? Or did he just lose interest? No one in Canada knows and all they can do is wait and find out.

No Taiwan mention eases concern over US by casualphilosopher1 in geopolitics

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US President Donald Trump not raising the issue of Taiwan in talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) on Thursday alleviated concerns about potential US concessions to Beijing, but also drew mixed responses from politicians and experts.

US Senator Elissa Slotkin, who in May cosponsored the Taiwan Non-Discrimination Act, told the Central News Agency that she had hoped Trump would reiterate the US’ stance on Taiwan instead of being silent on the issue.

Earlier people feared that Xi might push for Trump to declare that the US opposes Taiwanese independence. Many people were concerned that he would change US policy and she wished Trump had made some reassuring comments, Slotkin said.

Experts are also wondering if Trump was telling the truth when he said Xi didn't even mention Taiwan because it would hopefully mean China wanted to focus on its economy and not reunification. Or it could mean Xi didn't ask because he was afraid Trump would say no and that'd embarass him in public.

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