Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

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Uncle SAM exercising it’s instruments of state power. Must be happening all over the world. Probably this is why Biden’s staff is confident that they will be able to manage the fallout.

In the end, all the talk about “liberal global order” by murican west coast tech companies is just narrative to cover up their inherent “America First” nationalism. Nothing wrong in that, but to take others for fools as if we don’t see the hypocrisy is either ignorance or arrogance.
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This is how platforms like #YouTube wish to curb the real story of ISIS in #Afghanistan. #IndiaNarrative even after proving our story with various links of this event, due research & facts have been issued a warning...

For shame @YouTube

 

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Uncle SAM exercising it’s instruments of state power. Must be happening all over the world. Probably this is why Biden’s staff is confident that they will be able to manage the fallout.

In the end, all the talk about “liberal global order” by murican west coast tech companies is just narrative to cover up their inherent “America First” nationalism. Nothing wrong in that, but to take others for fools as if we don’t see the hypocrisy is either ignorance or arrogance.
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This is how platforms like #YouTube wish to curb the real story of ISIS in #Afghanistan. #IndiaNarrative even after proving our story with various links of this event, due research & facts have been issued a warning...

For shame @YouTube

Is it possible to emulate something like GoI's ONDC push (they did to tackle Amazon-Walmart) in order to create an open-source replacement for YouTube?
 
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Why POTUS Biden? Why?

Gay man is 'raped and beaten by the Taliban in Kabul after he was duped into meeting them'

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Talibans are just a bit confused... don't blame them over things they have no control over...:lawl:

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Is it possible to emulate something like GoI's ONDC push to tackle Amazon-Walmart in order to create an open-source replacement for YouTube?
An artificial push has to be created- either through sanctions, or by slapping fine, or by banning one of these platforms as an example (similar to what China did). Once GoI started rounding up the compliance guys of Twitter in Delhi, they started toeing the line. You gotta slap them to awakening.

Market forces are too weak to counter- the monetization offers, the content repository, technical expertise and the existing viewership base- works in their favor
 

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An artificial push has to be created- either through sanctions, or by slapping fine, or by banning one of these platforms as an example (similar to what China did). Once GoI started rounding up the compliance guys of Twitter in Delhi, they started toeing the line. You gotta slap them to awakening.

Market forces are too weak to counter- the monetization offers, the content repository, technical expertise and the existing viewership base- works in their favor
1.) An open source alternative to YT will be able to offer an alternative source for the same content repository. People will likely start having the same video posted to their YT account and to their open-source website as well. So famous YT channels, like PBS Spacetime or Anton Petrov will start posting videos on both YT and the open-source alternative. Just like streamers stream on Twitch and YT at the same time.
2.) Monetization can also be done through a third party internet ads firms (sort of like Taboola maybe) that specializes into placing correct type of ads on videos of creators who subscribe to that service. Monetization is already bit fcuked with most content creators having to rely on sponsors anyways. But yeah, money for running data centers for holding all that user data would be a problem I have no solution to. Maybe the online company monetizing the videos can offer a higher cut to the creator and a no-demonetization policy as well. That will bump up earnings of creators to allow enough so that they can pay for video storage and still make as much money as on YT.
3.) Banning YT is simply not a viable option. YT is much more subtle in its censorship than Twitter, for example. Whatever the alternative, it should be more stable and self-sustaining than YT. Only then will it be successful.
 

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It is an assumption that Talibs can not make aircrafts operational. Unless the engines have been taken out, every spare parts can be found in black market. Pakistan, Quatar and Turkey - all of them operate most of the aircrafts that arr left with Talibs and can easily provide maintenance and even repair of the crafts.

Also there are China and Russia which can provide tech support for them.

What people don't seem to grasp is that current US regime is actually trying legitimise the Talibans. They would not mind those aircrafts getting repaired either.
One thing is correct , the American man will not feel safe anywhere now.
He has seen how america left afgans in distress, the American man's trust on American government has been shaken
Who is talking about fighter jets? Helicopters and propeller planes aren't fuel guzzlers and takes far less expense to train pilots in those.

But, those are force multipliers. Those can manage to even out the field against an enemy that has the same level of equipment or can cause havoc on enemies that don't have the same equipments.

Given the cost-benefit calculation which top level Talib leaders can easily compute, training and maintaining an airforce of helos, light ground attack props etc will be simply too lucrative not to be done.
Operating any kind of aircraft requires extensive infrastructure, navigation systems and pilot training, every flight takes lot of fuels too. Taliban can at best show up a chopper flying nearby in videos of few minutes for propaganda.

I'm assuming even this by not accounting the very fact that Afghanistan doesn't even have most of basic infrastructure of civil aircrafts. It's a great deal to operate towards and from Afghanistan.


That's why AAF was a joke and much of its inventory was unserviceable.
 

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UK's opposition to this move has been pretty open in the recent past. The speeches in their Parliament, media coverage, proposal to create a 'safe zone' in Kabul with France (which would imply some troop presence). I guess they're are the only Nato ally who have spoken against this US line of action, while other EU countries have been playing their usual tunes- risk to Women and girls ,kinda stuff. Quite refreshing actually, coming from UK.
 

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UK's opposition to this move has been pretty open in the recent past. The speeches in their Parliament, media coverage, proposal to create a 'safe zone' in Kabul with France (which would imply some troop presence). I guess they're are the only Nato ally who have spoken against this US line of action, while other EU countries have been playing their usual tunes- risk to Women and girls ,kinda stuff. Quite refreshing actually, coming from UK.
What's so refreshing about that? They are just legitimising the Taliban by putting out this statement.
 

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Taliban were legitimised the day the US govt made an agreement with them.
Quite refreshing actually, coming from UK.
This was your quote. My reaction was UK to UK. What US did is well known. You still didn't answer "What's so refreshing?". You may not choose to answer it, but don't try to spray it all over.
 

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This was your quote. My reaction was UK to UK. What US did is well known. You still didn't answer "What's so refreshing?". You may not choose to answer it, but don't try to spray it all over.
I guess they're are the only Nato ally who have spoken against this US line of action, while other EU countries have been playing their usual tunes- risk to Women and girls ,kinda stuff.
The very fact that a Nato ally is speaking out against the alpha male of the group is refreshing.Not something that we get to see often.
don't try to spray it all over
Goes on to show that your demeanor is as poor as your comprehension.
 

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The very fact that a Nato ally is speaking out against the alpha male of the group is refreshing.Not something that we get to see often.
Precisely the point you missed. They ain't speaking against. They r towing the line "Taliban are sworn enemies of ISIS(K)" (POTUS, not verbatim).
You are seeing what's not there.
Goes on to show that your demeanor is as poor as your comprehension.
Fancy words can't hide your incompetence mate. Keep trying. Eventually you might make it.
 

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