The Green Leap Forward

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Re: The Green Leap Forward

Post by Speaker to Animals » Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:17 am

India-Paki war would become an India v. Paki/China war instantly.


Might solve a lot of problems, actually.

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Re: The Green Leap Forward

Post by kybkh » Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:20 am

What has taken India so long in turning to the West for security??

Are they still hurt about the British forcing civilization on them?
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Re: The Green Leap Forward

Post by Smitty-48 » Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:22 am

kybkh wrote:
Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:20 am
What has taken India so long in turning to the West for security??

Are they still hurt about the British forcing civilization on them?
India has a policy of keeping its options open in case of sanctions against them, they don't want to be reliant on one vendor, so they deal with the Russians still as well.

India has two enemies, Pakistan and China, but India doesn't actually have any formal alliances with anyone.
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Re: The Green Leap Forward

Post by Smitty-48 » Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:23 am

In terms of British, the Indians are very British, particularly the Indian Armed Forces which were designed and built by the British, but India hasn't been bothered by the British, since the Viceroy was withdrawn back to Britain.
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Re: The Green Leap Forward

Post by Speaker to Animals » Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:25 am

kybkh wrote:
Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:20 am
What has taken India so long in turning to the West for security??

Are they still hurt about the British forcing civilization on them?
Because the US backs Pakistan and we are unlikely to want to fight China for a bunch of pajeets anyway.

Honestly, if China, India, and Pakistan set fire to half their populations, we would be better off as a planet. I am not saying I want half the human population incinerated, but we are talking about the half that cause most of the environmental problems. And China sabotaging themselves hardly hurts us.

I think the Indians could win too.

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Re: The Green Leap Forward

Post by Smitty-48 » Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:28 am

India's primary vendors are Russia, France and Israel.

Recently however, Boeing has broken into India by selling them P-8, C-17, AH-64, and CH-47
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Re: The Green Leap Forward

Post by Montegriffo » Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:33 am

Speaker to Animals wrote:
Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:05 am


"I can't even see the fucking mailboxes." :lol:
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Re: The Green Leap Forward

Post by Smitty-48 » Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:33 am

As the Russians have cancelled their PAK-FA program which was supposed to deliver stealth to the IAF, I would expect India to join the F-35 program instead.
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Re: The Green Leap Forward

Post by Smitty-48 » Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:40 am

India's principle weakness is corruption, it's a corruption culture, so that makes it very inefficient, they lose a huge amount of capacity to everybody being on the take, whereas China has control of that shit, so China is much more efficient.
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Re: The Green Leap Forward

Post by Montegriffo » Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:42 am

Double the average temp for this time of year.
Tomorrow expected to be over 20c again.
Been in the high teens for a week and forecast to be the same for another week.
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