Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Whitehouse Spokesman Stephen Miller Lacerates India on FOX News


https://x.com/MattooShashank/status/1952202315617755390


Somebody should get that miserable old wretch Rupert Murdoch on the phone, and start squeezing his balls - especially his crummy little Star TV - to show our displeasure with his FOX News and anchor Maria Bartiromo's echoing of Stephen Miller's nasty statements against India. I think Arnab should start speaking out against Murdoch's media empire right away, since Arnab could immediately benefit by gaining market share for himself & his RepublicTV at Murdoch's expense. Arnab and other Indian broadcasters can rally the Indian public against Neo-MacCaulayist colonizer Murdoch and his media empire, who are needlessly being given a license to broadcast in India. If that old crook Murdoch could fire Tucker Carlson, then he can damn well get us a groveling apology from Bartiromo and FOX management. Failing that, then Murdoch's enterprises should be hounded out of India. Just like the ED raid on BBC's offices, there should be a raid on Murdoch/Star TV's offices in India.

Bust Murdoch's Aussie balls - hard. No more Mr Nice Guy. 

Trump depends on Murdoch's media empire -- many of Trump's senior staff are from Murdoch-owned FOX -- and Aussie Murdoch's media empire is within our reach (eg. Star TV). We need to go after Murdoch's businesses, and put the squeeze on him. That will send Trump & Co a message they can't ignore.

If Trump Leans On India, Then India Leans On Murdoch

The Murdoch Card Is More Powerful Than the Rare Earths Card

Thursday, July 31, 2025

Pakistan, US seal trade deal

"Massive" Oil Partnership With Pak: The US struck a trade deal with Pakistan, hours after announcing 25% tariffs on imports from India.


Fourth-largest oil and gas reserves in the world: This could be a potential game-changer in the region’s energy flows... Fictitious reserves?


"India can take its dead economy down for all I care"


China spared, India sanctioned: 6 Indian Companies Sanctioned By US Over Iran Petroleum Purchases


Why Trump doesn't want Google, Microsoft to hire Indians: He wants a new "spirit of patriotism and national loyalty".

From the archives: 'Abki Baar, Trump Sarkar': PM Modi gives tacit support for Trump's re-election in 2020

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

China & Iran (and What About Afghanistan? What if...)


Iran has become an Achilles' heel for China (ie. a weak spot, as a vulnerable key oil supplier)

Suppose China were to build a pipeline thru northern Afghanistan, and pay oil transit fees to the Taliban, as part of BRI. This could replace the lousy non-performing Pak/CPEC portion of BRI.

It could be a trifecta for them, because Iran could get Chinese weapons in exchange for Iranian oil, and Afghanistan could get money to rebuild itself.

I don't think Pak would dare disrupt the Afghan pipeline and make a deep enemy out of China. US would approach Pak to replicate Afghan jihad again (this time against China instead of against Moscow), but I don't think Pak could dare risk making a deep enemy out of China (if Pak did that, then all the better for us)

What would be the main benefit for India? We could collude with a rising Afghanistan to liberate Pakhtun & also Baloch areas from the decaying Pakistan. At some point, even USA would abandon a decaying Pak, and decide it's better to engage with liberated components like independent Balochistan (Pakhtun areas of Pak would be absorbed by Afghanistan, naturally)

Quick notes: Hiring Indians | Baloch and Israel...

Saturday, July 26, 2025

USA & China in Our Yard - Why Not Us & China in USA's?

The following talk was hosted by Dr Tara Karth (former National Security Council Secretariat) and Lt Gen Dushyant Singh (Director General CLAWS, PVSM, AVSM, Ret'd)

India-China Relations: Current Dynamics Unpacked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH0_LCAMn1Q?t=4431


@ 1:13:51 in the above video, I asked the following question:

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While being rivals, US & China are both able to support Pakistan. In which places can India & China cooperate, even beyond their immediate shared neighborhood? South America or Pacific Islands maybe?

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The point of my question is that we're always taking it on the chin from these guys right in our own yard. Why can't we take our response beyond our yard and into someone else's yard? (You know whose yard I'm talking about)

Ideally, I'd be thinking of someplace beyond the 2nd island chain used to block China from entering the Pacific, perhaps closer to Hawaii. There are a whole lot of islands in that part of the Pacific.

Another place might be in South America, in its northern-most parts. We have closer ties to Guyana & Trinidad, the first of which is under serious threat from Venezuela. We can provide armaments to Guyana to help protect them, while China can provide armaments to Venezuela's belligerent govt. Just like the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, where we arm Armenia and Israel arms Azerbaijan, we can have the same thing in South America where we arm Guyana, and China arms Venezuela's Maduro govt in response. As a result, Venezuela becomes China's client state, perhaps even giving them an airbase in America's backyard. (We can see how the Israelis similarly benefited from using Azerbaijan's territory for basing strike aircraft.)

Any sort of cooperation or even managed competition with China is fraught with risk, because the Chinese can make anything go awry. But our exposure level is reduced the farther away the site of cooperation/competition is from our own home turf. America doesn't mind helping the same Pakistan that China helps, whether it's meant as cooperation or as tug-of-war. They don't mind, because it's India's security getting screwed by this, and not their own.

Likewise, we need to take the same attitude towards Uncle Sam, since that's the attitude he takes towards us.