Global Think tank discussions on India & neighbourhood

[ezsasa]

No matter how much atif mian tries to intellectualise economic state of pakistan, fact remains that core reason is that pakistan is a security state, welfare of citizens is not a priority in paki state.

he is the guy who niazi hired and fired in a day for being a ahmadi.
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India and Pakistan at 75: A Tale of Two Divergent Economic Paths

 

[ezsasa]

Premise is of Afghanistan, but there are other points worth noting.
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War is human, and we don’t consider it. We engage again in this self-delusion … this mirroring … … we fall in to all these cognitive traps of optimism bias, of confirmation bias, of group think. Think about how we waged the war in Afghanistan. In 2009 we reinforced the effort and then gave the Taliban and everyone the timeline for our withdrawal and then said we’d like to talk to you on our way out and work out a deal. How the hell does that work?

War is a contest of wills. And you hear these days, “The American people didn’t support the war.” … Well you know, three Presidents in a row told them it wasn’t worth it. Right? What do you think the American people are going to say? With the exception of the August 2017 South Asia Strategy, that’s the only time we had a sensible, reasoned policy in place. We are not serious people … because we lack basic competence. And there are a number of reasons for this.

I think there are a lot of people in senior positions in government who have never led anything, right, they’ve never done anything except maybe be in academic environments or write policy papers, you know. But when you write a policy paper … this paper, what is it going to do? You can’t hit the enemy over the head with it. They have no real idea about execution, implementation.

(they) …teach international relations theories that … graduates try to fit situations in to. They only give a veneer of understanding, and they lay a deceptive rationale for folly and failure.

McMaster: a Whole of Government Failure

At the end of September, when the national humiliation in Afghanistan at the end of August was still fresh in everyone's mind, the 4th Great Power Competition Conference took place. The sub-title of this year's conference was "Two-decade 9/11 Anniversary Conference: Gathering Wisdom from...

blog.usni.org

 

[ezsasa]

As i keep saying we are ahead of the game when it comes to "Climate Change" mitigation, so nothing much from the BP fellow.

interesting bit is montek singh Ahluwalia seem to be saying both electricity prices and taxes need to be raised. electricity prices is an old point of his for more than a decade.
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Energy Outlook Globally and in India - Dialogue between Spencer Dale and Montek Singh Ahluwalia

 

[ezsasa]

apparently it's the same all over, meeting is called for one topic in this case G20, "babudom" in this case think tankers go on tangent with gyanbaazi prowess demonstration to peers. one fellow says govt should do reforms first, one lady brings gossip to the table by saying corporate mumbai is feeling nervous, climate change wala says climate financing.

dichotomy here is, Govt Babu is saying we must be proactive in pushing India story, delhi mumbai based think tankers seem to be unable to grasp the concept of "pushing the India story".
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India@75 Blue Skies, Green Horizons || Amitabh Kant

 

[ezsasa]

apparently it's the same all over, meeting is called for one topic in this case G20, "babudom" in this case think tankers go on tangent with gyanbaazi prowess demonstration to peers. one fellow says govt should do reforms first, one lady brings gossip to the table by saying corporate mumbai is feeling nervous, climate change wala says climate financing.

dichotomy here is, Govt Babu is saying we must be proactive in pushing India story, delhi mumbai based think tankers seem to be unable to grasp the concept of "pushing the India story".
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India@75 Blue Skies, Green Horizons || Amitabh Kant

Nice to see senior people being realistic about their expectations from the world.
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Geopolitics, Pandemic, and the G20 || India Think Tank Forum 2022 || ORF ||


India at the G20: Ambitions, Aspirations, Approaches || ITTF 2022 || ORF ||

 

[ezsasa]

Carnegie India is getting re-activated on India it seems, it was a relief last few years when they kept their mouth shut. nothing but providing citations for "India should work on poverty before building stealth fighter" crowd. citation loop coolies.

this is happening at the same time when there is a parallel campaign for F-35 in recent weeks.

 

[dfcool]

Carnegie India is getting re-activated on India it seems, it was a relief last few years when they kept their mouth shut. nothing but providing citations for "India should work on poverty before building stealth fighter" crowd. citation loop coolies.

this is happening at the same time when there is a parallel campaign for F-35 in recent weeks.

Yesterday I came across that on twitter and quickly pointed on AMCA thread.

AMCA - Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (HAL)

i got to know from a indian navy vetren that moskva's sailing route had a repetitive pattern and in case of war ,ships avoid this as it makes them vulnerable to detection, he was pretty experienced and possibly right though i have no knowledge of naval domain When you have eyes in the sky &...

defenceforumindia.com

He has no aerospace background, just graduated from some stupid arts college in US.

Carnegie south asia program is sponsored by Boeing, proof:

We might need another thread exclusively for pointing out global think tanks who discuss our defence equipment like "Global think tanks discussing - india defence" as we become more self reliance we will receive more bad publicity to stop us from competing in exporting market.
These think tanks get heavy amount from military industrial complex
There goals: 1) promote their own defence 2) publish misleading articles about foreign countries defence programs.

 

[ezsasa]

Yesterday I came across that on twitter and quickly pointed on AMCA thread.

AMCA - Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (HAL)

i got to know from a indian navy vetren that moskva's sailing route had a repetitive pattern and in case of war ,ships avoid this as it makes them vulnerable to detection, he was pretty experienced and possibly right though i have no knowledge of naval domain When you have eyes in the sky &...

defenceforumindia.com

He has no aerospace background, just graduated from some stupid arts college in US.

Carnegie south asia program is sponsored by Boeing, proof:

We might need another thread exclusively for pointing out global think tanks who discuss our defence equipment like "Global think tanks discussing - india defence" as we become more self reliance we will receive more bad publicity to stop us from competing in exporting market.
These think tanks get heavy amount from military industrial complex
There goals: 1) promote their own defence 2) publish misleading articles about foreign countries defence programs.

i was looking at this from a different angle. noticed yesterday that ashley tellis was back in news on coupta's channel, and usually these folks come in waves like a PR campaign with multiple hook lines.

Off The Cuff with Ashley J. Tellis

 

[dfcool]

i was looking at this from a different angle. noticed yesterday that ashley tellis was back in news on coupta's channel, and usually these folks come in waves like a PR campaign with multiple hook lines.

Off The Cuff with Ashley J. Tellis

I remember him, he is some kind of big shot in nuclear diplomacy, He was involved in nuclear deal with US in MMS era. He has much influence in US and India, What he want now? Didn't watched the video.

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Came across many US think tanks and other US bodies trying to influence indian politics, certainly its wrong and growing.

Fact check toolkit activated by US consulate, they are clearly violating somekind of laws and want to influence what information people can read through journalists. Does MEA even know?

 

[ezsasa]

I remember him, he is some kind of big shot in nuclear diplomacy, He was involved in nuclear deal with US in MMS era. He has much influence in US and India, What he want now? Didn't watched the video.

The usual, he was trying making our adversaries look bigger to us, using the excuse of chinese thermo nuclear warhead.

 

[asaffronladoftherisingsun]

The usual, he was trying making our adversaries look bigger to us, using the excuse of chinese thermo nuclear warhead.

This is worthless and stupid. We need to throw this in dustbin.

 

[tribendra bisoi..]

This is worthless and stupid. We need to throw this in dustbin.

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Search meaning of each one of them . Then comment what should replace those values . And make a thread .

 

[karn]

Something is brewing
Coupta magnifying the message


@ezsasa thoughts

 

[ezsasa]

Something is brewing
Coupta magnifying the message


@ezsasa thoughts

he has written a new book called "Striking asymmetries".

https://carnegieendowment.org/files/202207-Tellis_Striking_Asymmetries-final.pdf

even if what he says happens, what else can we do except for striking back with nukes and handle fallout later, in both cases of pak or chin. there is no other choice.

 

[dfcool]

Biggest warmonger you will ever come across. With "people" like him, Indian region is in always trouble for sure. Profits for US.

 

[Butter Chicken]

Biggest warmonger you will ever come across. With "people" like him, Indian region is in always trouble for sure. Profits for US.

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Just your average guy looking for attention on Twitter. nothing else.

 

[asaffronladoftherisingsun]

Search meaning of each one of them . Then comment what should replace those values . And make a thread .

You shilling for commonwealth? You want start some new larp on the values? What values?

Why BHARTIYA vaccines were rejected by the brits but Chinese vaccines were accepted?

Where the values have ever been?

 

[gajapati.]

You shilling for commonwealth? You want start some new larp on the values? What values?

Why BHARTIYA vaccines were rejected by the brits but Chinese vaccines were accepted?

Where the values have ever been?

Its all about power in geopolitics . There is no such thing as democracy standing for democracy . India is seen with colonial lens . And you know the real culprit ? Its our own people . We have created such system here where they can be used in the name of liberalism , environmentalism , communism or clergy of religion . We are doing good not putting all the eggs in one basket , minding our own interest .

 

[asaffronladoftherisingsun]

Its all about power in geopolitics . There is no such thing as democracy standing for democracy . India is seen with colonial lens . And you know the real culprit ? Its our own people . We have created such system here where they can be used in the name of liberalism , environmentalism , communism or clergy of religion .

That worthless grouping commonwealth is of no use to BHARAT.

 

[gajapati.]

That worthless grouping commonwealth is of no use to BHARAT.

It does not have much significance in foreign policy as far as i have seen . Its a formal group . Right now groups of importance for india in my view are QUAD , BRICS , BIMSTEC .