Had the honour of moderating a knowledgeable panel on the Ukraine Crisis and Lessons for India during the CASA webinar on 13 Mar22. The panel was very good and the Q&A session was interesting.
The Pakistani FM to BBC: War would be suicidal. Pakistan has already started negotiating with a gun to its head! Welcome home Wing Commander Abhinanadan. Well done. You flew into the Valley of Death and survived. India is proud. Sincere condolences to Air Marshal Waseem Ud Din on the loss of his son Shahaz Ud Din under most unfortunate circumstances. He was incredibly brave to continue his mission when others had turned around. Paradigm Emerged A lot has happened since Balakot. Some in focus some out. Some hyped. Some diffused. Time to sum up the situation and see where things are heading. Militarily it is called Review of the Situation. I will do it journalistically so that the intellectual western media understands it. They might or not buy our story. Incidentally it is not a story. It is not for sale. This is real live action. Nuclear exchange receding. Not ruled out. A fundamental paradigm has emerged. India’s fight is ag...
Does Russia depend on imports for any non-luxury/essential items ? If not, the sanctions will not have the kind of impact that Mr.Pant thinks it will. In any case, it's better for the world to adopt some thing like bitcoin, which is not beholden to any country, as the global reserve currency. This will remove all incentives to provoke war to preserve reserve currency status and remove the means of financial coercion by any one party.
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