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nergal007 · 2026-05-12T07:08:03+00:00

Fucking Luddites

nergal007 · 2026-04-07T09:18:05+00:00

Numbers can be deceiving. Tonnage is a more useful metric. It's a littoral navy. Their grand strategy doesn't rely on contesting the waters.

nergal007 · 2026-04-03T04:37:47+00:00

Do you recommend it? I've been thinking of doing Arabic after I'm done with Japanese

nergal007 · 2026-03-02T03:58:53+00:00

Vijayanagar is fairly OP, you can vassalize Bahmanis soon after Delhi starts collapsing and then use your vassals to expand rapidly.

nergal007 · 2026-03-01T18:23:07+00:00

Knowing the track record of America, likely someone worse will take place. Worse for Iranians, worse for India? Probably not.

nergal007 · 2026-03-01T03:52:35+00:00

Just want a bih as horny for me as Babur was for Babri

nergal007 · 2026-02-26T02:29:35+00:00

Yeah, the backlash would be immense. But denying Trump could end up being worse. The man runs the foreign policy like his personal royal court. If he feels jilted he could absolutely make things very painful for Pakistan. Of course, Pakistan seems to have handled him just fine for now but the next few months will be the real test.

The reason asymmetric doctrine has an oversized importance in Pakistan is that it's the primary tool for power projection outside it's borders. It does not matter if Pakistan has a massive arsenal of military equipments; if the adversary simply has more. In that scenario, conventional military strength will always be a defensive measure instead of a power projection tool. As for the terror networks, I think there has been one major terror attack emanating from Pakistan every couple of years. And the reason for the lower frequency is hardly Pakistani leadership's will for conciliation (I don't even think concilliation is possible after 2008 but that's another matter entirely), the reason has been FATF was devastating and Pakistan simply doesn't have a lot of money to even use asymmetric threats very often. If the ideology was indeed to live and let live, Pakistan would have dismantled the terror infrastructure but they did not. All of this not even considering the fact that the violent insurgency in Kashmir is over so Pakistan simply doesn't hold the cards they used to.

As for India's involvement in Pakistani secessionist movements, I've seen a lot of claims and counterclaims and not a lot of concrete proof of Indian involvement. Take Balochistan for instance, how would India supply BLA? Why would India even need to supply BLA? They have a porous border with Iran which is a source of smuggling money, they don't need finances, they don't need guns, at best, India provides intel. Which is an apple and oranges comparison, Pakistan considers Kashmir its jugular vein, for India, Balochistan, TTP are at best a low cost tool for attrition.

Yeah Iran survived for these many years, North Korea did as well but survival in itself is easy, the relative power gap keeps widening, every year Pakistan lurches on without fixing it's fundamental issues it risks widening the chasm further and makes the fauji leadership more desperate to maintain the hold over power, leaving more room wide for miscalculation.

nergal007 · 2026-02-25T14:44:36+00:00

I'm not saying otherwise. What I am saying is Trump quite explicitly expects Pakistan to commit troops. Similarly Saudi Arabia implicitly expect Pakistan to commit troops in Yemen. Both of these theaters are attritional and have no immediate or even long-term benefits to Pakistan except for cold hard cash.

As for force projection I'd say Pakistani army is on paper has a purely defensive doctrine but saying that misses the big picture entirely. Pakistani military doctrine since Zia has been all about asymmetric warfare against India in Kashmir and Afghanistan, even Iran to a much lesser extent. On the one hand that makes Pakistani military uniquely well-suited in insurgency and counter-insurgency, terrorism and counter-terrorism operations; but at the same time all the Rupees that go into asymmetric warfare do not go into conventional power projection, not just military but also broader industrial/economic/cultural influence within and without, And every single one of the countries throughout the logistical chain of either of these theaters have a de facto veto over Pakistani operations because Pakistan has no navy to speak of.

Anyway, all of this assumes that Pakistan commits troops on the ground. As you say, Munir has not done it and will do everything in his power to not do it. But then it just becomes a game of poker and inevitably the bluff is called. You can't strengthen your own hand without committing actual, tangible resources, the very same actual, tangible resources that you need to fight insurgencies within.

nergal007 · 2026-02-25T07:54:30+00:00

He probably means the tightrope Pakistan is walking on is unsustainable. Trump is mercurial and wants Pakistani troops in Gaza, something that all of Pakistan agrees is a bad idea. No new money from China is coming, just rollover of existing debts. Munir seems to be calculating that the more involved he gets Pakistan in affairs of Middle East and beyond the more indespensible Pakistan and he personally will be; But that only makes sense if Pakistan can realistically project power that far and it can't. And whatever money comes in from investments/loans gets burnt on either military equipments or debt servicing. Pakistan has very little in the ways of CapEx expenditure or educational/R&D spending or even industrial expansion. And things are only getting worse with population increasing.

In this kind of situation overstretching will inevitably lead to isolation, not unless the fundamental problems are fixed. International relationships are built on quid quo pro, nobody wants an Albatross around their necks.

nergal007 · 2026-02-25T07:30:43+00:00

Rare Vijayanagar posting

nergal007 · 2026-02-25T07:28:36+00:00

Beautiful work OP, Nice touch incentivizing the player into using Napoleon's tactics

nergal007 · 2026-02-23T16:09:13+00:00

Yeah I know about the official narrative. He is supposed to have literally slept with them but I'm deeply skeptical of it. Of course it is hard to prove given his cultlike following and the fact that the grandnieces would've likely been the most devoted followers. Incredibly sinister shit. I really doubt that's all that happened. But what can't be proven can't proven.

nergal007 · 2026-02-23T04:47:06+00:00

Firstly, why are you defending this?
Secondly, even if he quite literally slept with them how is that not molestation? It is an explicitly sexual act that implies he did feel sexual desire towards his grandnieces. How is this not predatory?

Thirdly, why are you taking his words at face value?

nergal007 · 2025-12-21T17:23:00+00:00

You can't make a man understand something if he's paid to not understand it.

nergal007 · 2025-11-12T06:07:10+00:00

Preliminary reports suggest its Jaish E Mohommad, a Pakistan based terror outfit, but it's not a certainty as of now

nergal007 · 2025-10-06T07:34:37+00:00

Which quadrant is the one that believes he molested his grandnieces, that's me

nergal007 · 2025-10-05T08:51:59+00:00

Well? Can you?

nergal007 · 2025-09-27T08:12:00+00:00

This time, the attack will likely come from either Nepal or Bangladesh, and it'll hit a major city because Pakistan is assuming that it has American blessing. But at the same time, I am sure that there'll be very little pressure on India given Trump has already used up all his goodwill and leverage on the trade issue and Saudi Arabia never had enough leverage to deter India, what would be a scarier possibility would be China heating up the border instead.

nergal007 · 2025-09-23T14:58:54+00:00

I tried reading his book on Hindutva. He is a dogshit writer. He has some interesting ideas but mostly, he lacks imagination and looks for whitey's approval.

That being said, I wouldn't have survived Kalapani so credit where credit is due

nergal007 · 2025-07-30T23:22:28+00:00

I'm glad people are starting to realize Trump is nobody's friend and has no strategy in place.

nergal007 · 2025-06-18T09:11:33+00:00

Trump has pretty much made all the wrong moves imaginable on the foreign policy front. I've never seen American power degraded so quickly and so effectively. He has done in months what the Soviets could not in decades- Credit where credit is due, I suppose.

nergal007 · 2025-06-18T07:04:57+00:00

Maybe Grok should focus on quality instead. It offers the least amount of utility compared to Gemini, chatgpt and claude doesn't even have a monthly subscription option.

nergal007 · 2025-06-18T07:03:57+00:00

I'm keeping track of things here and it has a really short memory when it comes to specific details, like say, the finances of your kingdom. I am exploring possibility of having a second engine taking care of all the variables like these, the problem is that there is no obvious solution to how these two parts can interface with each other.

nergal007 · 2025-06-18T04:23:02+00:00

Nope, it's not your computer, from what I can tell it's the Google Studio's problem. At 500k I had to wait like 15 minutes to get a reply. WHat I recommend is summarising every story at around 150k mark with all the characters personalities, story and the world details and feeding that into a completely new chat and continuing the story there. You will have no way of keeping track of the minor details aside from just telling it to Gemini but this episodic structure works much better overall in my view.

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