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The End of South Asia

A Region in Name Only

By Happymon Jacob

July 22, 2024

President Dhristrashtra Bows Out, Vice President Gandhari to Step In, Kauravas to Run Amok

Biden is bowing out of the presidential race, and has endorsed Kamala as his replacement.

Very predictably, NeoCon Never-Trumpers who'd supported Nikki Haley are now throwing their money behind Kamala, who is Trump's next remaining opponent

https://www.newsweek.com/nikki-haley-voters-pac-announces-support-kamala-harris-1928198

Nikki, as a Republican, has endorsed Trump who is the duly designated party nominee.

But the Never-Trumpers who funded her -- and who are now choosing to throw their money at Kamala -- would not be similarly bound.

The Never-Trumpers are the hardcore NeoCons who play outside normal rules. If there's any political faction I'd suspect of trying to assassinate Trump, it's those people.

Nikki herself is not those people, she's just been a useful tool and a beneficiary of their money, just like Kamala now will be.

NeoCons will want to use idiot Kamala the same way they used senile Biden, to rubberstamp them in their pursuit of more war, death, and destruction.

President Dhritarashtra is now bowing out.

Will Kamala be a blindfolded Gandhari who allows more war?

Will their Kauravas continue to run amok?

US Wants Multi-Polar India (Divide-&-Rule)

My previous post was about how Russia & India both want a Multi-Polar World, which would be good for both countries.

But it seems that the natural counter-strategy of hegemon US is to want a Multi-Polar India (aka. Divide-and-Rule):

https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2024-07/240715_Rossow_India_Strategy.pdf?VersionId=cFMKIZagnsBetU3FgLzPyjMNN10KSzqZ

Moscow-Delhi Axis and the Multi-Polar World

Alexander Dugin is considered to be the father of modern Russian political and strategic thought. His words for India are worth pondering:

https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/the-moscow-delhi-axis

Alexander Dugin on Moscow Delhi axis

"Alexander Dugin argues that the Moscow-Delhi axis is one of the most crucial supporting frameworks of a multipolar world order.

Modi and Putin are currently defining the structure of the Moscow-Delhi axis, one of the most crucial pillars of a multipolar world order. Bharat (also known as India) is a state-civilization. Russia-Eurasia is another state-civilization. Clarifying their relations in terms of geopolitics, economics, and culture is fundamental.

We are all now learning to think in multipolar terms, which is a nonlinear system.

Empirically, I have developed a hypothesis: for the stability of a multipolar system, each pole should have no more than one main opponent. If our main opponent is the West, all other poles should be allies. This principle should guide all others in forming their alliances. Only those who aim to be global hegemons and seek to establish a unipolar dominance can afford to have more than one opponent. However, this will ultimately lead to their downfall.

From a pragmatic standpoint, it is crucial for the hegemon to ensure that other poles have more than one opponent, preferably excluding the West. This strategy makes it easier to control such poles.

India has issues with China and, to a lesser extent, with the Islamic world (mainly through Pakistan, but not exclusively). This drives India closer to the West, with which it also has historical grievances (such as colonialism). Therefore, India needs to understand the logic of multipolarity more clearly, and Russia, with which India has no conflicts, can greatly assist in this.

Russia is currently on the front line of the conflict with the hegemon, making the construction of multipolarity and the promotion of its philosophy our natural mission.

(translated by Constantin von Hoffmeister)"

Quick notes: Muslim "brotherhood" | Millionaire exodus...

• Pakistan to start second phase of Afghan deportations: Beginning Sunday, authorities are likely to expel more than 800,000 Afghans from the country, after about 541,000 were forced to leave in the first phase in November last year
  
  The reality of "Muslim Brotherhood": Syrians in Turkey face deportation into an unknown future. "You could tell that Turkey wanted to get rid of us Syrians". "Turkey has always used Syrian refugees as a political pawn, whether through its EU-Turkey deal and the billions of euros associated with it, or to exert influence on the reorganization of Syria if the regime were to fall".



• Why RICH people will leave India: a. Quality of living b. Crony capitalism c. Stockholm syndrome-- people adjust to everything -- gas chamber pollution, pot holes, traffic snarls..




• Union Budget is not corporate India’s wishlist: Tax breaks can’t solely drive profit



• Anna University to rope in int’l faculty: “Our faculty members are working with many international faculties in various universities as part of their research collaborations. We will try to bring in some of these international faculty members for a period of one to two years”.



• The dark side of light: Light exposure at night may raise the risk of type 2 diabetes. Reducing light exposure in the evening and maintaining a dark environment could be a cheap and easy way to prevent or delay the development of diabetes, even for those who are high risk.



• Night owl behavior could hurt mental health, sleep study finds. Morning larks who rose with the sun tended to have the best mental health of all, to no one's surprise.



• China's Peru megaport rattles USA: China's Megaport In South America Could Spark Resource War With US



• Chinese C919 jet hopes to challenge Boeing, Airbus: China is marketing its commercial jet to the international market.



• Meera Bhajan - Aryya Banik




• A single modern AI GPU consumes up to 3.7 MWh of power per year: GPUs sold last year alone consumed more power than 1.3 million homes



• 'BJP Did Hit Wicket With 400 Paar': India Shining 2.0.

'We Can Be Enemies, But We Can Still Trade': Prof Amit Gupta

Worth a listen:

podcast 'the end of everything': is that the future for indian civilization?

hanson makes a frightening case. we must remember nalanda's cataclysm, and vijayanagar's. india's enemies are not looking to just win, but to wipe out indian civilization. indians have to cultivate shatrubodham because today's enemies come in different forms and are more subtle, but the end result they seek is the same. 

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-130-should-we-expect-just-a-war

Caste Game on the Rise in the West

In Canada's main province of Ontario, the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has declared that Indians are infected  with an evil culture of discrimination they have inherited and always carry with them wherever they go, and thus must be condemned.

https://ocufa.on.ca/blog-posts/ocufa-board-motion-caste-discrimination/

When student protests on campus against the Israeli govt make Jewish students feel unsafe, then politicians unanimously condemn it, and even university presidents are forced to resign. But when university faculties are themselves singling out Indians for attack - not even a govt, but an ethnic group - then apparently it's all fine and normal. It seems like there are double standards, which apply different standards of justice for different ethnic groups. The more that Indians stay silent on this, the more this will happen, and the worse it will get.

Col. Douglas Macgregor On INSTC Corridor (India-Iran-Russia-Europe)

What If Labour Returns to Power in UK? Blessing or Curse?

Rishi Sunak has called for elections in UK. If the Conservatives lose and Labour comes back to power, then I worry they'll become another Trudeau-style headache for India, and start supporting Khalistan. (We could always reciprocally needle them by talking about Scotland and Northern Ireland, where separatists are much more active than in Canada's dormant Quebec.)

The best thing we can hope for from Labour is that they might try to lead UK back toward re-joining the European Union. This could strengthen the EU and help turn them around from their collapsing state. A stronger EU could also better stand up to the US and its aggressive hegemonism. this restoration of balance would help multi-polarity and Indian interests.

Quick notes: Bubble territory | Domestic chips...

• Indian stocks: Squirreling away a portion of one’s income for a rainy day would typically be considered prudent behavior. Yet, in India, it’s helping make stocks overvalued.
  
  Systematic Investment Plans (SIPs) were introduced to help investors periodically put aside money in a disciplined manner. SIPs deduct cash every month from an investor’s bank account and invest the proceeds into selected mutual funds. As more money is directed toward these funds monthly, the portfolio managers are forced to buy stocks even when their valuations might not be as attractive.
  
  For instance, of the nearly 4,900 actively traded India-listed stocks, 300 stocks had a fall in revenue in the last two consecutive financial years. Yet, 216 of these stocks rose over the past 12 months. In fact, small-cap companies such as food packaging carton manufacturer Rollatainers and Tantia Constructions, an infrastructure company, have had three years of falling growth. Yet, their stock has risen more than 300% over the past 12 months.
  
  India records worst FII selloff among emerging markets in May



• Chip news:
  14-nanometer: Tata Electronics prepares ground for high-end chips
  
  Zoho into chips? India's Zoho plans $700 million foray into chipmaking
  
  Rising star: Alibaba's Yitian 710 is the fastest Arm-based CPU for cloud servers, study claims
  
  Moore Threads: Chinese AI GPUs used for three billion parameter LLM training
  
  Tech independence: Chinese govt pushes Huawei's HarmonyOS hard, sets adoption targets to beat Windows, Android, and iOS
  
  Defying sanctions: Blacklisted China chipmaker SMIC becomes the world's second-largest pure-play foundry by revenue.
  
  Decoupling: Huawei brings sanctions-busting Kirin 9000C CPU to desktop PCs to replace banned Intel Alder Lake chips



• Stranglehold on clean energy: China already makes as many batteries as the entire world wants




• No juice for EVs: Amid growing demand, America is running out of power.



• Energy transition: Coal share in India’s electricity mix drops below 50% for the first time since 1966



• Cow dung's key role in India's energy industry: Asia's biggest compressed biogas plant is in Lehragaga, Punjab. It can turn 300 tonnes of paddy straw into 33 tonnes of biogas every day.



• Begum Parveen Sultana: Raag Puriya Dhanashree




• Vegetarians, watch this: The Science of Vitamin B12



• Feeling hot, hot, hot? How India's cities can keep the mercury at bay



• Protein Supplements: Top medical body's advisory urges people to avoid protein supplements



• AI tramples on copyrights: Eight newspaper publishers sue Microsoft and OpenAI over copyright infringement. “The current GPT-4 LLM will output near-verbatim copies of significant portions of the publishers’ works when prompted to do so,”

Prof. John Mearsheimer On the Israel Lobby

Here's an interesting comment @ 14:19 from Prof John Mearsheimer on the Israel lobby, and how it wants to stir up conflicts around the world to get the United States involved in them:

This is something I too have long noticed -- and of course it directly conflicts with India's own national interests. India certainly doesn't benefit from a revival of Cold War hostilities between US and Russia, because then India will then be immediately targeted by the West for its ties with Russia, which it cannot afford to just discard on someone else's whim.

Unlike Israel, which has always benefitted from unipolar US global hegemony, India would like to see this unipolarity abate, and see the rise of multipolarity that will give India more latitude and options for its own security. So there is a natural conflict of interest there.

I often see Hindus blindly fanboying over Israel, but blind fanboys can easily be suckered by those who are exclusively looking out for their own interests at the expense of everyone else.

my podcast on the dangerous congress 'idea of india' that denigrates bharat, the civilization-state

their british-derived 'idea of india' is no longer relevant as bharat rises.

https://open.substack.com/pub/rajeevsrinivasan/p/ep-129-the-congress-agenda-as-spelt?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

 

my firstpost column on why india must focus like a laser on economic growth

https://open.substack.com/pub/rajeevsrinivasan/p/ep-128-indias-economic-prospects?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Canada Arrests Alleged Indian Hitmen Accused of Nijjar Killing