Folks, sharing some thoughts on the recent statement by the CDS in Singapore regarding potential losses of IAF aircraft during Op Sindoor. Here goes ..
At the outset, I offer my heartiest congratulations to Paakis for their spectacular victory in Kargil where they brought down three IAF aircraft and for the even more FANTASTIC victory of 1971 wherein they shot down anywhere between 45 – 65 IAF aircraft! There’s a video as well!
In the same vein, I also offer my heartfelt commiserations to my fellow Indians who are beating their chests and doing R@ndi Rona about having lost Op Sindoor because IAF lost some aircraft!
Before moving ahead, I will offer a simple, two-step advice to such folks who cannot digest the loss in Op Sindoor. Here it is :
Step 1 : Take a deep breath.
Step 2 : Hold it for 29 minutes!
Must try it!
It will help you find eternal peace. Sachchi!
Moving on, never mind the death and destruction visited by the IAF and IA on Bhikharistan without any pity or remorse over the course of those 88 hours!
Never mind the utterly destroyed and humbled terror headquarters at Muridke and Bahawalpur!
Never mind the dead Squadron Leader Usman Yousuf of PAF who was actually killed in a road accident instead of the Brahmos Strike at Bholari where he was working on a Saab Erieye AEW&C platform of the PAF.
Never mind the explosions at Kirana Hill because IAF never knew about it and absolutely NEVER bombed it!
Never mind the fact that during Op Sindoor, IAF addressed dozens of targets as far as 300km inside Pakistan with possibly a hundred or so IAF aircraft in the air together at the same time while overwhelming PAF and PA air defences!
Never mind the fact that .. well .. never mind .. please keep minding all facts because the IAF lost some aircraft in doing so!
Also, never mind the fact that the CDS himself mentioned that lessons were learnt and IAF didn’t suffer a scratch thereafter!
Many years ago, during my Facebook days, I got an opportunity to be a ‘content writer’ for some months for a popular defence/geostrategy page with nearly a million followers. What I realized was that many of us have a habit of looking for a dark cloud behind every silver lining!
Just like we did when we overtook Japan to become the world’s fourth largest economy & idiots started breaking their bangles crying that our per capita GDP was still lower than Japan! Of course it was and it will continue to be for a long time! But our GDP still surpassed Japan and that too would remain a fact!
On that note, I will just leave this tweet here before moving on!
Bottomline is that what we achieved in those 88 or so hours in Operation Sindoor is something that all leading militaries of the world will be studying for a long long time. As far as Paakis and some folks within our own borders go, they can keep laughing/crying about IAF losses!
Their latest Field Marshal can keep orgasming over the beautiful photograph of the Chinese military exercise presented by him to that joker appointed as the Prime Minister of Bhikharistan by himself some years ago!
Why I call Shehbaz Sharif a joker, you asked? Well here is the reason 👇😂
A military that has lost each & every war that it has ever fought, cannot help but resort to lies and misinformation and in this case, bombast .. to keep itself relevant amongst its own people. Hence Paakis will keep on crowing about downed IAF aircraft while staying mum over 👇
I have no issues with this. I, in fact, wish them many more such FANTASTIC victories over India in the days, weeks and months to come! Seriously!
May Allah keep granting such victories to Pakistan each and every time they engage with Indian armed forces! https://t.co/h7AxEPkupa
However, what gets me ‘amused’ is the sheer R@ndi Rona in some sections of my own people at loss of a few airframes! India can easily afford to make up for the loss of all airframes lost during Op Sindoor!
But as far as Bhikharistan goes .. well .. they will have to eat grass!
Mind you, we achieved all this without the Indian Navy having to fire even a single round!
Just imagine the next round when Karachi and Ormara and all such get bombed from the seas!
I don’t say it .. my Raksha Mantri said so himself!
To conclude, I would say that I can live my life while accepting the loss of a couple of airframes, especially when the pilots are all fine!
As for those who are still beating their chests .. well .. Peace Be Upon You!
As far as Paakis go, it warms my heart to see them go ecstatic in their celebrations!
They did so in 1965 as well. Unfortunately, they lost half their country a mere six years later!
This is what happens when you start believing your own propaganda – a MASSIVE victory of 1965 turns into a rout in 1971! Magnificent Delusions indeed! https://t.co/XUhoC6owPJ
However, in their own eyes, they still DID NOT lose in 1971! Don’t believe me? Here is what a young child of Bhikharistan is taught in her school in Pakistan Studies .. she believes that Pakistan GIFTED independence to Bangladesh!
I say that such fools deserve to be cheered on!
And when they find taps in their airports running dry, they can go hunting for leaves from nearby trees .. because waters of Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej will henceforth only flow into Pakistan as and when India desires!
Also, let us keep cheering their FANTASTIC victory in Feb 2019! What amuses me, however, is the fact that after such a FANTASTIC victory, they couldn’t do anything at all when India cancelled Article 370!
Might this 👇 have been the reason?
In the end, I will just leave this tweet here without any further comment! Yes, Paakis won and we lost!
ब्रह्म मुहूर्त में श्री ब्रह्मोस जी ने साक्षात दर्शन दे दिए भिखारिस्तान में! https://t.co/jHLyvC48wa
To begin with, I think this visual of a newlywed couple on their honeymoon shall remain forever etched in my mind whenever this incident in particular and the name of Pakistan in general comes up.
By now we all know what happened.
Tourists were asked their religion & those who were adherents of the ‘wrong’ faith were killed without second thoughts by those who follow the ‘correct’ deen. The first thought that came to my mind upon hearing this was the speech by Asim Munir:
Of course, with the benefit of hindsight, this was not just hot air and bluster from the Brown Panted Chief, but a ‘Call to Action’ to stir up the terror pot in India.
But then, I find it amusing that many of our own people were aghast upon hearing this.
If you think Munir was out of his mind in talking this trash against Hindus, then I have a white coloured building in Agra to sell to you!
Don’t believe me?
Well, here is what a top Indian diplomat came to hear from a six-year old girl in Pakistan:
And if you think that the 'Hindu Kutta' thing is a one off event in a comedy show, you couldn't be more mistaken! Late JN Dixit, during his tenure in the Indian High Commission in Pakistan was given a live demonstration, that too by a SIX YEAR OLD CHILD! pic.twitter.com/VrtuDl714P
‘H!ndu Kutt@’ is the way these Paakis define you and me. Do note the spontaneous laughter from the audience on this ‘joke’ in a popular show in Pakistan:
Moving on, here is a Paaki comedy show where the word 'Hindu Kutta' not only comes out matter of factly but also elicits a wholehearted laughter from the audience. Once again, DO WATCH this 15 second video before moving ahead pic.twitter.com/hRpNRtAUw2
You and I may go to town professing our love for the Paakis, light thousands of candles on Wagah-Atari Border in ‘solidarity’ with them and go gaga over their actors in Bollywood movies.
But to them, we were, we are and we always will be the enemy.
Period.
What we lack is ‘शत्रुबोध‘ against the ones who have sworn to annihilate us not just physically, but also as a civilization.
These people revere marauders who raped and killed / converted their own Hindu ancestors.
National Heritage Site in Jhelum, Pakistan – Tomb of a man whose initial conquests included Multan, Uch, Lahore & Peshawar! Irony, anyone? 😀 pic.twitter.com/7NF2EyvzXH
Sadly, these bastard children of their great grandmothers’ rapists have allies within Indian borders as well – wittingly or unwittingly.
Pakistan: We'll have a 1000 yr war with India. We'll keep sending terrorists & killing Indians One particular type of Indian: Pakistan DESERVES to be stable
These people see their history as starting from when Mohammad bin Qasim conquered Sindh. Nothing before that is relevant. And if you think it is their Madrasas that teach this to their kids, then you couldn’t be more wrong. This what their schools teach : State Sponsored Radicalization in Pakistan’s School Curriculum: Part 2 of 3
So what come next?
How do we get rid of this rabid entity called Pakistan that occupies what were our own lands less than a century ago?
Short answer – HUMILIATE them at every given opportunity, militarily or better still, psychologically.
Even if it does not kill their hatred towards you and me, it will scare them enough to keep them at bay for some time atleast. Remember, after the humiliating Battle of Bahraich, the invaders didn’t dare look towards India for over a century.
Closer to our times, the humiliation of 1965 was not digestible for them and thus, they came back for yet more humiliation in 1971. After 1971, the Brown Panted Ones have never dared confront Indian Armed Forces face to face in open war.
6 Point is that such Propagandu (again, NOT a typo) by a losing army, esp one that is the de-facto ruler of the country is in a way, understandable. But when you yourself start believing in it is when things go South and 'Victory' of 1965 turns into thappad of 1971#PulwamaAttack
Yes, they tried Kargil. But in their own words, they never thought Indian Armed Forces would react so violently to it.
Bottomline: HUMILIATION is what keeps them at bay, till the time they forget their aukaat & come back again at you.
Keep humiliating them, & there will be peace.
Which is why the decision to put Indus Water Treaty in abeyance has rattled them so much!
They could react to Surgical Strikes by denial. They could react to Balakot by ‘Swift Retreat’ & losing an F-16. But to this, they have no counter, except shout WAR!
per the Indus Waters Treaty, and the usurpation of the rights of lower riparian will be considered as an Act of War and responded with full force across the complete spectrum of National Power. 2/7
Btw, talking about ‘War’, this is what their erstwhile Brown Panted Chief had to say about their famed Brown Panted Army!
Just watch this video from the 3-minute mark.
This was their CHIEF speaking!
Coming back to the IWT, I have written a bit about it in the past as well. Shall share those threads at the end of this thread. But one thing that merits attention is the wording used in the very beginning of the text of the Treaty. It is this :
12 'Peaceful Relations and Friendship' is what he said. Now where did this come from? For answers, refer the screenshot of the Preamble of the Indus Water Treaty below. The treaty was signed 'In a Spirit of Goodwill and Friendship'! pic.twitter.com/7cqj9B0x4f
Yes, IWT was signed under a smokescreen of ‘peace and friendship’ that has cleared off now. There is not much that Pakistan can do except cry, or if they dare, then to take military action. And we all know how that has ended for them, each and every time!
But, something tells me this is not all that is coming their way.
No Sir!
Not when Indian Prime Minister switched to English in the middle of a speech to a non-English speaking audience.
Why?
Ask those who heard it & understood in the Western Hemisphere.
India will identify, track and punish every terrorist, their handlers and their backers.
The Paakis thought they would hide behind ‘indigenous freedom struggle’ by using local terrorists.
But to their utter surprise, GOI never bothered with such technicalities. Instead, they acted swiftly and decisively by targeting the IWT and Paaki Diplomatic Staff straight away!
It was almost as if the GOI had already made plans for any such provocation long ago!
Mind you, I say this not to belittle the lives lost in Pahalgam. But instead, to point to the fact that Pakistan just cannot be expected to NOT come and kill us at every given opportunity.
That said, I think they miscalculated wrt to this terror attack – Either in the sheer numbers of casualties that the yahoos inflicted, or in the response from the GOI. I’m sure there would be a LOT of nervous discussions going on within Pakistan since then.
So what comes next?
And more importantly, what is the likelihood of further punitive actions by India?
Well, in my opinion, the likelihood is high.
When and How, is what needs to be seen.
Why do I say this?
Well, because of the extremely strong actions thus far and the extremely harshly worded statements from the Prime Minister, Raksha Mantri and Home Minister.
Then there are the visuals of the Home Minister paying respects to the departed souls. The similarity with the Prime Minister doing the same in the aftermath of the Pulwama Attack is unmissable. Feel free to disagree.
This has been our trajectory thus far:
A war/near war every decade:
1947-48
1965
1971
1984/87 (Siachen/Brasstacks)
1999 (Kargil)
2002 (Parakram)
2019 (Pulwama/Balakot)
This decade still awaits one. Judging by the way things are panning out, the wait may not be for very long.
How the next part of Indian retaliation comes about, is anyone’s guess.
It may be military retaliation. Or it may be through other means.
But one thing is for sure – It will have to be something that cannot be hidden away or wished away by Pakistan.
Retribution will not only have to be served, but also be SEEN as having been served.
THIS is what will get you to the humiliation of the Brown Panted Rulers of Pakistan that I talked about in the beginning.
It doesn’t only need to be SEEN, but I would want it to be SPECTACULARas well.
Spectacular enough to drown out the horrific visuals of Pahalgam Spectacular enough to keep these self-styled successors of Saiyyad Salar Masud away from my lands for atleast a decade, if not a century.
After the Army (Surgical Strikes) and the Air Force (Balakot), will it be the Navy that will do the honours this time? Remember, they were raring to go even in Feb 2019!
22 The Indian Navy was already out at sea in full force! I'm sure the Paki Navy Chief, while changing into a fresh pair of undies, would be thinking about his predecessor during Kargil War and the fate that befell him, forcing his resignation a few months later!
Unfortunately, I cannot see the future and don’t know what will happen next. But what I surely can say is that this war has been going on since the day Pakistan begins its history from, i.e. 8th Century AD. Any lull is bound to be temporary. Period.
A temporary lull in the millennia old war on the very soul of our civilization cannot be assumed be a permanent ceasefire. Period. https://t.co/tKPMcep1gz
Unfortunately for us, we’ve been conditioned to seek instant gratification instead of looking at things the way they actually are – A never ending battle for the very soul of our civilization (Fortunately, there’s a mute button on Twitter for such 👇 idiots!)
They have been hearing drums of war all around India since 5 years and called everyone else deaf.https://t.co/05CpL0wVeI
As I try and conclude this chain of thoughts, I will share this tweet 👇 from four years ago before moving ahead. I still stand by it. Once again, feel free to disagree.
If we are lucky enough to live till the end of the next decade, we will in all probability, die in a world that is vastly different from the one that we were born in. Whether it will be 'good different' or 'bad different', remains to be seen.#JustSayinghttps://t.co/Ogp7OxlbBR
But interestingly, they DARE NOT ban airlines from other countries because every other country in the world is a potential donor to this beggar nation!
I don’t think we will need to wait too long before a prominent Pakistani politician or military man (serving or retired) will make the first mention of nukes.
THAT is how rattled Pakistanis are currently.
We have shown them the other cheek far too many times even in my living memory, what to talk about our history since 1947 or even before that. I say it is time to stop that now. It is time to grease the wheels of history with the blood that makes them move.
This is what I wrote about 11 years ago. Still holds true. There WILL be pain over the short term, but in the larger scheme of things, it won’t matter much.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind .. But TWO eyes for an eye makes just your enemy blind#JustSaying
I am of the firm opinion that with a Pakistan that is subdued in whatever form, quite a bunch of our internal issues will also take care of themselves.
@ranjeet_singh28 The locus lies not very far. Sort Pakistan out and most of our internal problems will get sorted out.
And the Pakistan that I look to see subdued includes the terror central in Rawalpindi.
With this I conclude this particular chain of thoughts. Remember, the enemy is a coward. He runs away at the first hint of a strong reaction. For example, just count the number of terror attacks in India outside of J&K since 26/11 Mumbai Attacks.
Pakistan has been testing and pushing our redlines since 15 Aug 1947 itself. Thus far we had been willing to turn the other cheek. But that window passed about a decade ago when the BSF pounded the hell out of Pakistan Rangers in Oct 2014.
Deep down, Pakistan knows it as well. But their ego prevents them from acknowledging it. Hence my insistence on HUMILIATION, because nothing else will work on such an enemy.
Read your scriptures and ‘mythology’. Notice that destroying asuras was a bounden duty for the sake of preserving your Dharma.
The biggest realization that dawned upon me while reading this masterpiece was the fact that killing of folks who were against Dharma wasn't frowned upon. It was in fact, considered to be one's bounden duty to do so. No courts were assembled to pass verdicts either.
With this I conclude my thread. Hope it made some sense to you. If not, well .. so be it! I look fwd to seeing what comes next.
I shall just leave 2-3 threads on the Indus Water Treaty since it is so much in news currently.
Thread 1 on IWT :
In light of this statement on the issue of Ravi river waters flowing untapped into Pakistan by @capt_amarinder, replugging an old thread chronicling my own thoughts on the same.https://t.co/szYxuIPZRw
Missed this one regarding Paaki ‘artists’ working in Indian films 👇
:THREAD:
So I came across this tweet from @gauravcsawant some days ago. In light of this, replugging a short thread that I wrote on the issue some years ago. Here goes .. https://t.co/dHZOIbhuMM
Sharing some thoughts on the recent moves by the Arakan Army on the Bangladesh-Myanmar Border.
Let’s see how this one goes ..
Let me just begin with this bombastic video of Bangladesh Army veterans threatening to capture Kolkata within four days! Very bombastic, I’d say .. especially when their own generation got the blunt end of the stick from Pakistanis in 1970-71 and couldn’t do anything about that!
Unfortunately for these geriatric idiots, while they were turned towards Kolkata, right behind them came the Arakan Army which established control over Bangladesh-Myanmar border. As always, these erstwhile East Pakistanis got totally surprised from behind (PS: All Possible Puns Fully Intended!)
It is still open to debate whether the Arakan Army did that with the backing of the Chinese or the Americans (I personally bet on Chinese hand, but that is just a gut feeling). But regardless, that border is now sealed for the immediate future atleast.
Implications of that on poor old Bangladesh are a tad unfortunate. It means that the only land border that still permits import of essential goods such as potatoes, sugar, COTTON FOR THEIR TEXTILE INDUSTRY, refined petroleum products etc, is the Indian border!
Oh, and electricity too! On that note, I wonder whether the amount payable to Adani Group for electricity supply has crossed $1Bn yet! Of course, the Bangladeshis threaten to import electricity via Nepal but unfortunately that too would depend upon Indian benevolence for transit!
Why I wrote the above is that if you noticed, the open anti-India rhetoric of Bangladesh in the immediate aftermath of their August ‘Revolution’ has scaled down immensely over the past few days. On that note, I will just leave this tweet here before moving on!
Adanis have already reduced electricity supply by 50% and Tripura too has nearly cut down entirely, the electricity they were supplying to Bangladesh due to non-payment of dues.
Aur karo revolution!
But coming back to the happenings on the Myanmar-Bangladesh Border .. The first thought that came to my mind when I first heard about the capture and sealing of the border by Arakan Army some days ago was SYRIA.
Seriously.
Let me try and explain why.
Ever since the August ‘Revolution’, people in India have been talking about retaking Indian territory lost to Pakistan in 1947. To be fair, I too added a lot of fuel to this fire, especially when it comes to the Chittagong area.
And this is why the Arakan Army moves in Muangdaw become so interesting.
What are the odds that if and when India actually decides to make a move in that area, the Chinese(?) backed won’t try and beat us to it, especially to the strategic port of Chittagong?
Mind you, I write the above merely as a hypothetical scenario, but still, one that has been playing on my mind for some time now. What makes this thought more interesting is this :
Depending on who you listen to, the Arakan Army have been shelling areas in Bangladesh from across the border or as per some, they have already invaded Bangladesh territory and taken over the town of Teknaf! But regardless, things are not too happy for the clown in Dhaka.
I totally agree with Col Hunny Bakshi below that one thing is for sure – Refugee influx in India in large numbers.
I will come to that in a while. But first let us get to the geography of the area.
It is rightly called the Bay of Bengal. The underlying context is that whoever controls Bengal, controls it.
You may want to mull over the above thought for a moment before moving ahead.
Moving on, it is India that controls not just Bengal but also both points of entry into Bay of Bengal – the Malacca Straits as well as the Indian Ocean route.
I say India controls Bengal, keeping in mind the relatively recent reality of a country called East Pakistan / Bangladesh.
There have been reports of the USA looking for a base in St Martin’s Island in Bangladesh and the Chinese looking at the Sittwe Port.
Needless to say none of these will be viable without Indian support or atleast an Indian nod.
Feel free to disagree with what I wrote above.
What I am coming to, is the fact that if things continue to fester, there will soon be a Syria type situation right on our borders. With too many stakeholders rushing to fill a power vacuum inside erstwhile East Pakistan, something is bound to give way.
Despite the facade of a Nobel Laureate in control, fact remains that there is still a lot of ambiguity in the power structure in charge of Bangladesh. The 84 years old geriatric ‘Advisor’ can very easily be discarded by the real power, if needed.
However, that still does not solve the problem of the true face behind the mess that Bangladesh is in today. Of course, it is quite well known to be General Waker uz Zaman, with the backing of Pakistan to boot, but he is still not the ‘Face’.
Of course, when things go further South, he can suddenly and magically come forward as the ‘Saviour’, aka his heroes Musharraf, Zia ul Haq, Yahya and Ayub Khan and of course the countless Bangladesh Army Coup makers as well!
But the big question to ask is, who will he save Bangladesh from?
And HOW?
Will it be from India?
Of course, it will be from India!
But HOW is the big question!
The simple answer is – No Way!
At best, the Bangladesh Army can be a pinprick. At worst, they can just fold and surrender, just like their heroes, the Brown Panted Ones of Pakistan. Btw, greetings on Vijay Diwas ye all!
The yahoos in charge of Bangladesh with Pakistani blessings are the sons and grandsons of these very unfortunate women. Cynically speaking, these bastards are just yearning for the love of their fathers and grandfathers sitting in Pakistan.(Do read the snippet below. I INSIST)
Carrying on, let us see the similarities between the current situation and 1971.
1. Democratically elected govt NOT permitted to be in power.
2. Looming threat of refugee crisis.
3. Superpower rivalry in Bay of Bengal (Apart from US and China, Russian Navy too visited recently)
4. Chaos on the streets of Bangladesh.
5. Rampant persecution and killings of minorities.
6. Economic stress due to non-existent law and order.
7. NO FRIENDS IN VICINITY TO SEEK HELP FROM.
We can keep adding to this list, but I think you get my gist.
As the wheels of history move faster and faster, there will be more and more chaos. But remember, new Order can only emerge from Chaos. This is what happened after WW2, after 1971 and if we play our cards well, this is what will happen after 2024 as well.
But fact remains that if we don’t, someone else will. I’d much rather see Feni / Chittagong and Rangpur in Indian map instead of someone else’s.
In any case, Bangladesh as we knew prior to 05 Aug 2024, no longer exists and will not come back either.
They made their bed. Now they sleep in it.
Unfortunately for them, they decided to sleep with the Pakistanis in this case. The result will be another break-up of their country.
Bangladesh is not merely landlocked with India on 95% of its borders, it is also at the mercy of the Indian Navy across its shores. The Indian Navy has had a free run of Bangladesh ports earlier, destroying targets at will, thanks to the mighty Vikrant. If it ever comes to a race for Chittagong and other ports of present day Bangladesh, I am sure they would just as brilliantly complement their Indian Army counterparts in 2024-25 as they did in 1971.
As a further exercise, just plot the Indian Air Force bases around Bangladesh!
What will Shri Waker uz Zaman and his fauj of geriatrics do? Answer – Nothing. They might beg the world for help. But that won’t change their fate.
Begging for US and Chinese aid didn’t help their illegitimate fathers in 1971 when India was relatively much weaker than it is now. Further, state of relations of present day India with most world powers is much different, as also current Indian heft in international geopolitics.
On that note, I will also share a personal view : Most Indians still remember the decidedly inimical US actions against India in 1971, but have mostly forgotten about the post Pokharan-2 sanctions of 1998.
Here’s why, in my opinion : 1998 is forgotten ‘coz sanctions were a foregone conclusion since we deliberately acted against established norms. But in 1971, we were the morally correct side & US sided with the ‘asuras’. Hence the continued memory of that event. Feel free to disagree!
As I come to close this thread, I will give you one more thing to do. Just open a map of India and focus on Bangladesh. See if that strikes you as an unnatural entity, nearly cutting off the Motherland from her North-Eastern children. To me, it surely does
As I mentioned earlier, Bangladesh of 04 Aug 2024 is finished.
Let me also add that Bangladesh of 16 Dec 2024 too has no future unless they accept the fact that it is only India that can help them out of this mess that they have created for themselves.
Do mull over it for a moment
With this, I conclude this thread. Today is too momentous a day to ignore the happenings in Bangladesh. On that note, I will just leave this short thread on the occasion of #VijayDiwas here as well.
Folks, sharing some thoughts on the current state of affairs in Bangladesh.
Let us see how it goes ..
First and foremost, let us call it for what it is currently – An attempt at re-establishing East Pakistan.
Yup, that’s what it is. Pakistan attempting to return to its erstwhile colony via proxy.
Come to think of it, conditions in East Bengal today are quite similar to what they were in 1970-71:
1. Interim Govt in place.
2. Democratically elected Govt not allowed to function.
3. Widespread and blatant atrocities against minorities and those that the current ‘govt’ doesn’t like.
The only (nominal) difference is that in 1971 it was more of a ethnic divide between the Punjab dominated rulers from West Pakistan and their Bengali subject in the East Pakistan. Now, however, it is about the Jamaat gone wild under the nominal cover of a geriatric Noble Laureate.
Make no mistake; the religious fanaticism seen during the Direct Action Day has remained very much alive in Bangladesh. For those who are not aware of the Direct Action Day, here are some (disturbing) visuals to tell you the story:
Calcutta police use tear gas bombs during an attempt to set fire to a Hindu temple in riots – 24 Aug, 1946 pic.twitter.com/5kQ0or6QPC
Even in 1971, despite the ethnic origins of the situation, it was the religious minorities that bore the brunt of violence. Same was the case in 1991 post the Babri demolition as well, for those who aren’t quite aware of that fact too.
Suffice it to say, religious fanaticism in Erstwhile East Pakistan never quite went away. Instead, it was kept under a tight leash by the govt of Sheikh Hasina, which of course, was ‘conveniently’ overthrown by riotous ‘revolutionary’ mobs on the streets of Dhaka.
Of course, the sheep too participated wholeheartedly in the ‘revolution’ right alongside the wolves, not realizing that they were the ‘main course’ for the ‘revolutionaries’! Par for the course, I’d say. Sadly, they are paying for it with their blood now.
Here’s yet another sad example of sheep happily running towards their own slaughter.
MUST WATCH, I’d say.
But what I find interesting to note is the sheer outrage all these atrocities against minorities in Bangladesh by the rabid yahoos has caused within India. Indian Media has been covering it ceaselessly. Further, even politicians cutting across political lines have denounced it.
Why might that be so?
IMO, it gives a glimpse to atleast a few of the sheep on our side of the fate that they themselves have avoided thus far, thanks partly to the Partition of the Motherland in 1947. Also, the fate endured by our own ancestors in 1947 and before that as well.
The visuals coming out of Bangladesh every single day have definitely had an impact on the psyche of MANY within our own borders as well, either consciously or sub-consciously. I will leave it at that for the time being.
Let us instead come to the question of WHO THE HELL IS HEADING THE INTERIM GOVT IN BANGLADESH??!!
It is most definitely NOT Yunus, because he goes by the title of CHIEF ADVISOR to the Govt of Bangladesh!
Interesting, no?
I would go out on a limb and say that this gentleman is the one who holds the real power in Bangladesh.
The bumbling old Yunus is just the Fall Guy who will take the blame when the Army is ‘forced’ to take over direct control of Govt. #JustSaying
Of course, being heavily dependent on the yahoos of the Jamaat ‘e Islami, having a lesbian daughter who drinks alcohol and dresses like this, is definitely a valid excuse to not just throw out Yunus at a convenient time, but also hang him if needed!
Here’s the video of the daughter of the ‘Chief Advisor to the Govt of Bangladesh’ getting arrested for drunk driving after her girlfriend left her, for those interested!
Talking about Yunus .. he himself is as rabid a Leftist as they come .. the only difference is that he has a Nobel Peace Prize, which itself has lately come under a cloud as a tool for rewarding promising stooges!
Of course, it was no surprise when links with Hizb ut Tahrir emerged .. because .. well .. why wouldn’t there be such links!
The plan of the ‘Deep State’ with respect to the Bangladesh Coup was perfect, except for the fact that it was Trump who ended up winning the US Presidential elections hardly a couple of months later!
And he remembered the Nobel Laureate clearly!
So what comes next ..
Well, there are two important dates that are fast approaching which I am keenly watching out for.
Firstly, 16 December, which marks 53 years of liberation of Bangladesh by the Indian Army. Secondly, 20 January, which is the day Donald Trump will be in power.
Let’s talk about 16 Dec first. It is an emotional date which is just about a week hence.
It is a part of Bangladesh history that cannot be wished away, no matter how much they try or how much they blow their own trumpet wrt Indian Trained and Indian Equipped Mukti Bahini.
Period.
This is where it will get awkward for the Bangladesh Army as well as their Brown Panted ‘brethren’ in Erstwhile West Pakistan.
The annual celebrations of this epochal event in Bangladesh will be interesting to watch out for this year for sure!
One way to avoid that would be to trigger an incident or a chain of events that would divert public attention, right? It could vary from an internal disturbance within Bangladesh to even threats / attacks on Indian diplomatic missions in Dhaka and elsewhere.
(^^ Disclaimer: JMTs)
I that regard, I really hope that tomorrow’s visit of Indian Foreign Secretary will result in a word of caution for the rabid rulers that are presiding over the pogrom of minorities in Bangladesh currently.
In fact, before moving ahead, there is one more similarity between Bangladesh of today and East Pakistan of pre-1971 vintage that comes to mind. This is about the insurgency and violence in the Indian North-East.
When East Pakistan existed, NE Insurgents had readymade bases, training and equipment available across the border. And as soon as Pakistan was thrown out, the Mizo insurgency ended in 1973. Fast forward to events leading up to the Aug 2024 coup and transpose it on the levels of violence in North-East and see if you find a pattern. I’ll just leave it at that for the time being.
Coming over to the next important date, i.e, 20 Jan. I get a feeling that the yahoos are trying to inflict as much damage as they can, before their Democrat benefactors in USA remit office.
To be fair, this is happening everywhere, including Ukraine.
They are expediting the influx of Pakistanis within Bangladesh while at the same time making the processing of visas for Indian citizens that much more difficult. Meanwhile military hardware too is already being shipped in for the chaos that awaits.
Well, either way, their goose is well and truly cooked. The recent tweet by the handle of the ruling political party in India about the US Deep State has much more of a meaning behind it than just the words tweeted. They know it too, hence their ‘rush’.
He will be in trouble with the Islamist when they find out he called President elect Trump Prophet in his letter.
— Balaji Laxman Subramanian Iyer 🇮🇳 (@LaxmanShriram78) November 6, 2024
What Bangladesh refuses to see is that their destiny is well and truly linked with India. If a Pakistan could be broken up in 1971 when circumstances demanded it, so also can a Bangladesh when it becomes inevitable.
Here’s an 11 year old tweet for context.
It was a much weaker India that faced off the USA in 1971. Relatively speaking, Pak Army of 1971 in East Pakistan too was a much more dangerous enemy than the Bangladesh Army of today.
The yahoos, as always, still dream of a ‘Greater Bangladesh’. Of course, this is the opium that the Bangladesh Army feeds them to keep them away from the increasingly desperate situation that the country is rapidly hurtling into, with their sovereign ratings going down to JUNK!
But what they don’t realize is that thus far it is only they who have been ‘kinetic’ when it comes to actions whereas India has been keeping its cards close to its chest. That does NOT mean that India doesn’t have any cards to play with.
Heck, even without going Kinetic, India can cause disaster for Bangladesh economy. All that is needed to be done is to cut-off road, rail and air links. The Yahoos, already crying for Indian Visas will do the rest.
Of course there is the inevitable question of Bangladesh plunging into darkness, literally, in case they don’t cough up the money they owe. But the newly ‘martial’ quom of Bangladesh are still running around with their chests puffed, having learnt from the best, i.e. Pakistan!
Heck, they have even put in a deal to import electricity from Nepal as a contingency. But what the idiots leave unsaid is that this electricity too will travel via the Indian grid, unless the Nobel Laureate has created some magical means of electricity transmission!
Bottomline: There is a great opportunity for India to set right yet more historical wrongs that have been permitted to continue thus far. What, when and how, remain to be seen. I am sure the GOI would already have contingency plans in place in any case.
Let me just get to the map from @NepCorresthat I quoted a few tweets above.
Now relate it with the situation in 1971.
Some people say that the original plan in 1971 was limited capture of territory to compensate for the refugee issue and establish a Bangladesh govt. In that context, I will also share this tweet of mine just hours after the Bangladesh coup:
At this point, I would like to reiterate the phrase ‘Pig’s Neck‘ that was tweeted not too long ago!
And then there is the ‘small’ issue of Feni that is the hub of all surface connectivity with Chittagong and thereabouts.
Bottomline: There are a multitude of options available to Indian in case the situation in Bangladesh continues to fester as it is today. Add to it a relatively friendly regime in the USA even though it would not matter when it comes to national interests, just like 1971 and 1998.
If a much weaker India could brush off the economic sanctions after the nuclear tests of 1998, the India of today can afford to do so many times over. That is in case the ‘world’ dares to sanction India at all.
The ideal end case scenario that I would like to see is Indian borders expanding to protect the minorities in Bangladesh. And the Bangladesh Army cut down to size commensurate to their circumstances, no more than 30,000.
Dare I say, things are fast moving to a stage where kinetic action by India would become inevitable and inescapable. Statements by GOI as well as political parties and private citizens are increasingly calling out the blatant murder and rape of minorities happening in Bangladesh.
Those bastards can deny all that they want, but fact remains that GOI has never been this direct about such issues in past. THIS is something that Govt of Bangladesh would have already taken note of. Yet, in their hubris, they will end up losing parts of their country yet again.
They have chosen their friends.
And they have chosen their enemies as well.
In fact, they have forcibly made enemies out of not only benefactors, but those that actually made their own country a reality when they were being raped and slaughtered mercilessly.
Events of the coming weeks and months will be the history that our grandchildren will be taught in their schools. I have no doubts we have the stronger cards in this ‘game’ and this time, we may or may not be as benevolent as we historically have been.
With this, I conclude this thread. 16 Dec and later, 20 Jan are the inflection points I will be looking at. In any case, even if the current regime in Bangladesh survives a bit longer than that, they will still end up ruining their country for good.
Folks, sharing some thoughts on Big Tech that has become an integral part of our daily lives as individuals as well as collectively. The trigger was the massive outage of Microsoft devices some weeks ago. Have been having some thoughts since then. Let’s see how it goes..
So many parts of our lives came to a halt, because someone somewhere screwed up!
It was a major news headline for atleast a couple of days. And then, we moved on once things were back in order, dismissing this as a temporary hitch in our day-to-day existence.
Of course, it was inadvertent.
Such things happen at times and computers crash. Nothing more to it, even if this event let to a massive number of computers to crash near simultaneously!
Hence, no outrage.
However, given the fact that life in so many countries came to a grinding halt across various sectors due to this unintended outage, one question that bothers me is what if next time there is an INTENTIONALoutage??
When I say ‘Intentional‘, I don’t necessarily mean by some evil geniuses running the large corporations of the world, but also governments who have a lien on the day to day functioning of such companies by the virtue of they being geographically located there.
Why I say this is because, if I as a govt had the power to disrupt or monitor lives of people and countries who are of interest to me, why the hell would I NOT do that?
In fact, a prime example of that landed up on my TL not very long ago: This is RFK Jr. revealing that 37 hours after President Biden was installed into the White House, they opened an illegal portal between social media giants and the FBI, CIA, CDC, etc, to begin the rampant censorship of Americans! Arm-twisting / threatening by Govt forced them!
Of course that doesn’t mean that atleast some of the owners of Big Tech / Social Media Giants were not already on a ‘trip’ of their own! Remember, one Social Media Giant deplatformed Trump even when he was STILL the President!
By the time Trump was out of office, he had been banned by FB, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat and the likes. Reddit even banned some Pro-Trump forums! (Source)
Mind you, FREE SPEECH is basically what the platforms deem to be ‘free’ as per their own policies. And of course, what the host govt deems to be ‘free’! The aftermath of Twitter acquisition by Elon Musk was their for all to see. I’ll still share two snippets of Vijaya being questioned:
Before moving on, you MUST see the two videos above. One phrase that the lady in the second video used to address them was ‘You all as the Sinister Overlords’. Nothing could explain it better! And to think that these platforms actually shape narratives around the globe!
Just as another example, during the 2024 Indian General Elections, YouTube approved 48 advertisements in English, Hindi, and Telugu that violated YouTube’s OWN policies about advertising and elections misinformation! (SOURCE)
Talk about Sinister Overlords!
The thing is that even though the platforms themselves just are a source code running on its own, doing what it is supposed to do, but the people who created that damn code are still humans. Humans, with their own biases and leanings.
Humans who don’t even know they are biased!
Humans, who think that anyone who doesn’t think like them is a liar and NOT deserving of free speech.
Why?
Because they hold the power of denying them free speech just because they happen to have a divergent view from those who control the platforms!
If they could do it to a Donald Trump, folks like Op India are pretty ‘small’ fries, no?
And the Sinister Overlordsalready have a bagful of templated replies to any queries seeking the rationale behind their decision to censor your or my voice!
Of course, outright banning is too ‘extreme’ and more than that, too ‘visible’! So there are also other means such as Shadow Bans and simply hiding access to information! I don’t know the reason behind these, but sharing two examples from Google:
Talking about Shadow Bans, that term seems to be a wrong one, atleast as far as Twitter before Elon Musk went. Apparently, the correct terminology was : VISIBILITY FILTERING!
V.E.R.Y innovative of the SINISTER OVERLORDS of ‘Free’ Speech, I’d say!
Adding this thread, which incidentally now gives #ShadowBan its actual, 'Twitter Verified' name – VISIBILITY FILTERING! Glad to be a small fry in a group of distinguished folks who got their visibility 'filtered' by self-styled custodians of free speech!https://t.co/yeQ0Ks80Ko
But sadly, even after Shri Elon Ji took charge of the ship, the Shadow Ban .. err .. sorry, VISIBILITY Filtering goes on unabated! I have already ‘yelled‘ at Elon Musk Ji, as he suggested. Let’s see what comes of it!
Like you said, I shall yell here on X: IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE HAPPENING!!
Chronicled some of my experiences with loss of engagements on X in this thread below.
It started when the previous ownership of X were in place. Things STIL haven't changed!https://t.co/ECKStEFUPt
So intimately involved have the Social Media giants become with life and politics around the globe, that even removal of a Blue Tick signals (to some), the beginning of the downfall of a hero or a leader!
Then there are the in-house AI algorithms who need data and material to train on. And guess who chooses what databases they shall train on .. well, HUMANS of course! Such scenarios are NOT at all surprising in such a situation!
As I mentioned in the beginning of this blog post, govts have ways and means to ‘influence’ behaviour of Big Tech / SM Giants. Here is the European Union that wants to control the flow of information within their own borders!
Yup, ‘FREE’ speech indeed!
And how can one forget the recent arrest of the founder of Telegram App in France! His ‘CRIME’? Not submitting to demands of some govts to give them a ‘peep’ into his App!
You get my drift, don’t you?
Being a ‘popular’ Social Media giant comes with its own perils at the hands of govts that decide that they will get to decide what constitutes ‘Free’ Speech!
Then there are govts who will punish their own citizens for as much as posting a meme!
#Britainistan – Where there is Freedom of Speech alright, but just not when it comes to sharing your true thoughts about the true rulers and current owners of the country!https://t.co/aeWNEEGAVY
Bottomline is that at the end of the day, even the ‘Cloud’ the we talk about when talking of the www, is actually a server farm located on a piece of land governed by the sovereign govt and administered by humans who are prone to their own biases and govt pressure. What we don’t realize is that by giving so much access to them into our daily lives, individually as well as collectively, we make ourselves potential targets for manipulation.
They may try to be ‘smart’ about that, but it does not change the fact that there is pretty much NOTHING that one can do to them because they are ‘merely following their own policies’!
The only way out from this vicious circle is to have indigenous platforms to ensure free speech to own citizens under the existing laws of the land. And with a population of 1.4Bn, we are already far far too late for this.
Beginnings were made. But they fell by the wayside.
Regardless, we need to keep working towards indigenous platforms to form the backbone of social media within our borders and accountable to the Govt of the day. Else, these things will keep happening, and with absolutely nothing that we can do about it.
There will always be govt biases as well, when it comes to foreign social media giants. Biases from govts that may not be very ‘friendly’ to us at the same time.
Of course, the founder of Facebook had an epiphany and an awakening, but so much damage has already been done and is irreversible by now. What we can definitely do is to limit the damage going ahead.
Of course, the founder of Facebook had an epiphany and an awakening, but so much damage has already been done and is irreversible by now. What we can definitely do is to limit the damage going ahead.
As I wind up this blog post, I will leave this thread of my very personal experience of Visibility Restriction at the hands of Twitter! This, by itself, lays out the case which I have built in the thread so far.
Ok folks, sharing some thoughts on the #ShadowBan that I have been accused by many of being under, thanks to the good folks of Twitter. But over time, I too have come to believe a bit in this whole #ShadowBan business. Why, you ask? Well, here's why ..
Facebook bans OpIndia dossier on Wikipedia, which showed how it has become tool of propaganda by leftists with helpful support from big techhttps://t.co/wdCAsORqkI
Let me just reiterate in the end that there is absolutely no alternative to indigenous social media platforms in the current world scenario. One hopes it fructifies sooner rather than later!
With that hope, I conclude this chain of thoughts.
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