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2011-08-30 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-08-30 13:37|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Officials seized bags full of tea leaves, which customs officials believe, were chewed by the pirates to stay awake.

Ummmmmmm...they ain't "tea leaves", boys.

Posted by tu3031 2011-08-30 14:23|| 2011-08-30 14:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Somali pirates are being trained in Pakistan to carry out a proxy war against India.

Isn't that an act of war?

Posted by Steve White 2011-08-30 14:52|| 2011-08-30 14:52|| Front Page Top

#3 It'd also be interesting to see where the money trail goes.

Posted by Pappy 2011-08-30 15:23|| 2011-08-30 15:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Isn't that an act of war?

Along with all the thousands of others against India and against the US, I suppose so.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-08-30 16:26|| 2011-08-30 16:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Forget it, Jake. It's...Pakistan.

Posted by tu3031 2011-08-30 16:35|| 2011-08-30 16:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Iff the INDIAN NAVY is all focused on deterring or countering China in the West Indian Ocean, what will India have to counter the Pirates and their steadily-getting-closer-to-Indjuh arc of pirate activities???

CURRENT + ANTICIPATED RISE IN MALAY-INDONESIAN = SE ASIAN PIRACY NOTWITHSTANDING.

As perhaps best illustrated by ....

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > INDIA DEVELOPS COLD FEET IN [naval]TALKS WID JAPAN, US, espec as per Vietnam + ASEAN + South China Sea disputes wid China.

* SAME > INDIA MAY DISAPPOINT VIETNAM IN SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE.

ARTIC(S) = INDIA = argued that it is UNREALISTIC to expect it to act like a MAJOR/GLOBAL NAVAL POWER GIVEN ITS PRESENT ECON + FINANCIAL CONDITION.

IOW, INDIA AT PRESENT IS WILLING TO BASE[Vietnam] + SEND ITS ARMED WARSHIPS INTO THE SOUTH CHINA SEA JUST A LONG AS IT ACTUALLY DOES N-O-T HAVE TO MIL CONFRONT CHINA + PLAN.

D *** NG IT, NOT, NOT - spelled K-N-U-T/ G-N-O-T - NOT!

That sound you hear is Rising China + PLA, PLAN laughing; + China-fighting VIETNAM not knowing whether to laugh like Beijing or cry for ally Indjuh being a naval wuss - THE FORCE = CURRY IS NOT STRONG WID INDIA???

Moreso given wannabe India's ....

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > TO COUNTER CHINA, INDIA NEEDS TO DO [serious = regional, geopol] NAVAL DIPLOMACY, ostensibly from the West Indian Ocean to the many small Islands = Island Nations of the SOUTH PACIFIC [SOPAC, SWPAC].

* VARIOUS > INDIA TO HAVE BALLISTIC MISSLE DEFENSE IN 2014.

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > INDIA PM [Mahoman Singh]: INDIA CAN HAVE THIRD-LARGEST [global] GDP BY 2025, at present growth rates.

GLOBAL-SUPERPOWER WANNABE "RISING INDIA" = RISING CHINA = ITS NOT GOING TO MEAN A DAMN THING IFF IT CANNOT PROJECT MILPOL, ECON POWER ANDOR DEFEND ITS INTERESTS.

MAHA-RUSHIAN HISTOIRE' = NO ORGANIZED NATION-STATE OR CIVILIZATION HAS EVER BECOME A "GREAT POWER" BY BEING REGIONALLY, TRANS-, OR GLOBALLY ISOLATIONIST.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-30 23:00|| 2011-08-30 23:00|| Front Page Top

#7 India's has reached its "MAHAN" moment of strategic = geopol decision???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-30 23:05|| 2011-08-30 23:05|| Front Page Top

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