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not sure who are the audience happymon is addressing in this piece. he says delhi, but a lot of people live in delhi including lutyens and think tankers. ​


going by the agreements and trips made by EAM and PM, neighbourhood is hardly on their top agenda unless something that needs attention.

or maybe this is his "note to self" by happymon.

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India’s Path to Being a Global Power is Not Through South Asia​

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India’s Path to Being a Global Power is Not Through South Asia | India's World

Contemporary India has the narrowest conception of neighbourhood ever in its history which has progressively shrunk over the millennia. Indian thinkers and ...
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In both Myanmar and Pakistan, the prevailing crises appear to have no resolution except through violence, argues Nilanthan Niruthan, Director Centre for Law And Security Studies, Colombo, and one of the region's foremost security analysts.
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In this podcast of The Gist on StratNews Global Channel , Ramanand SenGupta hosts Nilanthan Niruthan - Director : Centre for Law & Security Studies , Colombo whom the host describes as a foremost expert on South Asia , has made dire predictions for the future of both Myanmar & our favourite neighbor Paxtan.

A good watch !
 
ezsasa said:

not sure who are the audience happymon is addressing in this piece. he says delhi, but a lot of people live in delhi including lutyens and think tankers. ​


going by the agreements and trips made by EAM and PM, neighbourhood is hardly on their top agenda unless something that needs attention.

or maybe this is his "note to self" by happymon.

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India’s Path to Being a Global Power is Not Through South Asia​

indiasworld.in

India’s Path to Being a Global Power is Not Through South Asia | India's World

Contemporary India has the narrowest conception of neighbourhood ever in its history which has progressively shrunk over the millennia. Indian thinkers and ...
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Let's be realistic; we are an important country. But we are not a power.

A power is a country that is able to significantly demonstrate, through hard means, that it can make someone bend to its demands:

1. United States and Russia are superpowers. They have the technology, the competence, and the resources to not just deliver pain to their enemies but influence dozens of countries to do their bidding.

2. China is an economic powerhouse that has the capacity to use hard power, but has so far not used it. It has the resource, technology, and the know-how to make it all happen at a blistering speed.

3. Iran is a power. It's smaller and wields powers in its region through hard military and unconventional means of using force. Despite crippling sanctions, it manages to keep countries much larger and richer than itself on the edge.

4. Israel is a power. It is almost negligible on the world map, but controls global institutions through owning political lobbies in the United States. Even on its own, it has a formidable military-industrial complex, a battle-hardened citizenry, and a foolproof political system that takes down countries dozens of times their economic and geographical dimensions.

All these states mentioned above, have either a covert or an overt deep-state system that draws hard red lines on matters their country/culture/local value system finds unacceptable:

  • For the US, it is USD's supremacy and the dominance of its corporations worldwide. Indirectly enforced through corporations, deep-state think tanks, and hand-in-glove media system.
  • For Russia, it s its former imperial territories, immediate neighbourhood, and internal security that preserves the absolute supremacy of Russian Slavic Orthodox culture and ethnicity in Russia. Directly enforced through Putin's various internal and external security intelligence tools and ideological acolytes.
  • For China, it is Taiwan, Han supremacy, and absolute control of the CPC on the complete political spectrum. Directly enforced through CPC's enforcers and intelligence.
  • For Iran, it is the Shia Islamic values, the preservation of the Islamic Revolutionary Regime, and territorial integrity, with absolute political control. Directly enforced by the clerical regime.
  • For Israel, it is the survival and prosperity of the Jewish religious and ethnic civilization, its ancient Hebrew language, and the national sovereignty of Israel. Enforced through its shadowy, but powerful military censor, which acts as a deep-state.

We, on the other hand, are like a Brazil on economic steroids, but with nuclear capabilities. India is strong enough to ensure not being invaded from outside but are vulnerable from inside and fail to instil fear in other countries.

- We hesitate to use force where necessary
- We have enemies inside that operate with impunity hiding behind the self-imposed limitations of 'democracy'
- We lack a deep state and thereby "no insurance policy"
- We do not even have a stamped and officialized common identity despite being the oldest civilization on the planet

So no.

As much as we like to be proud of our country's achievements, we are not a power until we are able to instil a certain degree of necessary fear in other countries and command respect through it.
 
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Tshering22 said:
- We lack a deep state and thereby "no insurance policy"
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We do have one but it's very basic and not comprehensive.

Otherwise in 10 years of maino-maunmohan rule you'd have US maal in as the bulk of our frontline combat platforms and nuclear capability surrendered in interests of ((( peace ))).

I curse baboos most of the time but they have done these bare basics.
But that is not enough.
 
shade2 said:
We do have one but it's very basic and not comprehensive.

Otherwise in 10 years of maino-maunmohan rule you'd have US maal in as the bulk of our frontline combat platforms and nuclear capability surrendered in interests of ((( peace ))).

I curse baboos most of the time but they have done these bare basics.
But that is not enough.
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That's not a deep state, that's called inertia. A deep state is something that has a strong ideological foundation and is willing to use lethal force to maintain their order. Indian state does not have that.
 
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