RT @Maripuerta: Resolving the Essequibo Crisis: Security Cooperation against Venezuelan Threats

There are 3 core requirements for exporting arms to India as it has 2 actively hostile neighbors: low cost, large quantities, and fast. Then there's India's demand for tech transfers. So, before demanding India switch from Russia, I want to know how the core 3 will be addressed.

Our article with the Foreign Area Officers' Journal of International Affairs on how U.S. security cooperation with Guyana, as well as regional actors like Brazil and Colombia and @NATO allies like UK, France, and Canada can resolve the Essequibo Crisis.

There is a debate and discussion to be had about why each aircraft was lost? Was it restrictive rules of engagement? Issues with networks? Particular weapons or radars or whatever? . But none of the above is about why 5 versus 10 or 3 Indian aircraft being lost is like defeat.

Losing 5 fighter jets is the cost of war. It doesn't matter if objectives are achieved and the costs are acceptable. The questions are: . Was Pakistan's conventional deterrence by denial and punishment thwarted? Yes. Can India replace the aircraft and get many more? Also, yes.

Zohran Mamdani, Elon Musk,. myself: we are detritus of the British Empire. We don't belong anywhere except in America because there is no other society where we can be ourselves with our contradictions, pain, denial, and monsters, whatever our political differences. Happy 4th!.

Happy Fourth of July! . Blessed to be American. We may have our big differences and want to fight it out. But this is home and we've been to Thanksgiving Dinners. Onward and Upward!.

Huge news! Peru is a major customer for Soviet-Russian weapons in Latin America since the 1970s.

I am losing faith in India's defense indigenization initiative. Neither is the scaling, i.e., numbers, there nor cutting edge tech save exceptions like the missiles. There are many reasons from measly acquisitions by India to production problems from skilling to machine tools.

Thus, India's arms exports to Armenia may soon end: .

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I can't say anything more than 30 Park St. old boy @sanjeevsanyal . India needs Calcutta as a UT to project power in Southeast Asia. No city in the Northeast has the ready-made infra, port, and defense set up. As Bangladesh becomes unstable, Cal. can absorb corporate HQs too.

India is thinking about acquiring the Russian Su-57?!? India spent $300 million codeveloping it, then walked out because it wasn't great. It's like remarriage to someone you divorced. Why not the RoK's KF-21 Block 3 with the GE414 engine or the Rolls Royce one for India's AMCA?.

"We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard, that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that?". One of the best statements on the Israel-Iran rivalry: it has become an independent variable. Same with India and Pakistan.

Just because the U.S. makes major foreign and security policy mistakes, doesn't mean its Super Power rivals, USSR then and now China, don't make their own share of mistakes. Stop justifying China's every mistake as some secret achievement using strategy for 6-dimensional chess.

Within 60 days, two major partners of China--Iran and Pakistan--faced devastating air attacks from regional rivals and one by the U.S. China didn't lift a finger at the UN, let alone threaten to intervene. The Soviets did this many times. Let it be a lesson to China's partners.

Among great powers, the super power, and regional players removing Iran's nuclear facilities and leaving the regime standing was almost pareto optimal. The potential spoiler is Israel, which may equally seek the latter. PS. While PRC didn't step in for Iran, the USSR would have.

RT @d_extrovert: @vasabjit_b People who have participated in planning and executing such attacks estimate that it gets you five years.

"Knowledge can't be bombed" is a stupid comeback against an air strike. Who cares if you have technicians and scientists if it takes them another 30 years to get it all going again?. Stuff being moved out before an air strike is a serious comeback. This can compromise objectives.

There is a legit fear of Iranian proxies and direct attacks on shipping. But proxies like Hezbollah are too weak or like Houthis have a deal with US. What happens with Pakistan and Iraq is key: Pak seems with US on Iran. Russia and China are okay with the regime, but not nukes.