Comments by "" (@manofsan) on "CaspianReport" channel.

  1. Shirwan, your analysis and retelling of the story is completely false and propagandist. I have totally lost faith in your objectivity and professionalism. You are telling the story from a Pakistani point of view, literally depending on false information provided by Pakistan. Your commentary was complete propaganda. Jinnah was not motivated by Junagadh or Hyderabad - the conflict over Hyderabad only broke out after after the Kashmir conflict did, and was resolved after the Kashmir ceasefire. Furthermore, the "Muslim nobleman" ruling Hyderabad had already started massacring many Hindus using his Razakar army. The Kashmir issue is driven by the Durand Line (so-called Afghan-Pak "border"). During the period of British rule, they had conquered part of the Pashtun lands through imperial war, and these conquered areas were constantly rebelling against British control. After independence and partition, the new state of Pakistan inherited those Pashtun lands and their ethnic nationalist unrest. When Kashmir decided to go the route of becoming an independent state, Pakistan leader Jinnah was terrified that the Pashtuns would quickly follow suit and pursue independence for themselves, and so he decided to kill 2 birds with one stone by despatching the Pashtun tribal militias to attack Kashmir, on the pretext that "Islam was in danger". It's important to understand that the decision by Kashmir to go the route of being an independent state was undertaken by mutual agreement between "Hindu nobleman" Maharaja Hari Singh and Muslim political leader Sheikh Abdullah. After Pakistan invaded Kashmir using the Pashtun militias (forerunners of today's Taliban), both the "Hindu nobleman" Hari Singh and Sheikh Abdullah signed the Instrument of Accession to India - both of them, not one of them. India has held numerous elections in Kashmir over the decades, without incident or problems. It's only once the US began backing Pakistan closely during the Afghan War against the Soviets, while turning a blind eye as Pakistan nuclearized itself, that Pakistan became bold enough to pursue an intense insurgency strategy against India. Pakistan backed insurgency not only inside Kashmir but also in other parts of India, including the Indian state of Punjab which it destabilized first before doing the same in Kashmir. Once again, to repeat - the root of all of Pakistan's conflicts with neighbors lies in the Durand Line (so-called Afghan-Pak "border") and its unsustainability. Pakistan equally pursues a policy of destabilization and insurgency in Afghanistan, just as it does in India. Both of these insurgency wars in Afghanistan and Indian Kashmir are the legacy of US support to Pakistan during the 1980s for the purpose of bleeding and defeating the Soviet Union.
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  2. China: everyone/everything is edible to me - now get in my belly!
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  3. The sand melange? The sand must flow?
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  4. Iran may be bigger than Israel, but it has no patron of its own. They also think too primitively, first about religion, then about military power - they have no effective economic strategy or vision. They could have easily hooked up with China and Turkey for OneBeltOneRoad, but Iranian leaders are too blinkered and narrow-minded. Iran's worst enemy is themselves.
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  5. Dear CaspianReport, I am a Nigerian Prince with a lot of money invested into Pakistan's major oil discovery. Unfortunately, I am in need of cash, as my investments are not liquid. If you could please kindly send me some money, I promise to repay you many times over, as my Pakistani oil profits come flooding in.
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  6. Pakistan was created based on communalism and even has sectarian provisions in its constitution like declaring Ahmadiyas non-Muslims. Pakistan is so sectarian and communal that they regularly blow up Shia and Sufi Muslims praying at their mosques. Pakistanis can't even tolerate fellow Muslims let alone non-Muslim minorities -- that's how sectarian/communal they are. And then they try to point fingers at others -- what a farce!
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  7.  @Khan-ot4ny  you sound like some brainwashed fanatic who only knows how to spit bile. India is seen by the world as a more rational international actor that seeks coexistence and development -- unlike your military-run banana republic, Pakistan.
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  8. Of course a Pakistani will praise Shirwan's biased "report" - because it totally parrots the Pakistani viewpoint, in a completely slanted way, without consideration for key facts!
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  9. Post-Brexit UK geopolitics would be interesting.
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  10. The only possible silver lining is that all the research into these advanced hypersonic propulsion technologies might possibly lead to a new generation of aerospace vehicles which can enable rapid intercontinental transit, and maybe even facilitate launch vehicles traveling from Earth to orbit.
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  11. If Iran wasn't prepared to join the fight, it would have never initiated this 10/7 attack on Israel in the first place. Iran is behaving like it's already received guarantees from stronger powers. :face-purple-wide-eyes:
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  12. I can imagine that dictatorships and police states would like automated vehicles to be in communication with a central control system at all times. Then people's movement can be more efficiently monitored, and restricted if necessary.
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  13.  @Khan-ot4ny  you're bragging about China -- are you Chinese or Pakistani? Maybe you should first learn about what China does to Uighurs.
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  14. Whoa, whoa, whoa there, Shirvan of Caspian Report! How do we really know that some of these specifics happened? How do we really know that "members of the mob" infiltrated the armies of Ali and Aisha to conspiratorially cause chaos and mayhem? To me, this sounds like some kind of apologist window-dressing, to canonize and exculpate the beloved Ali and Aisha, to make them sound like they could do no wrong - when in fact their own negligence and petty egos may have directly caused the outbreak of war. The "mob" may be some classic scapegoat conveniently erected to make Ali and Aisha both look perfectly innocent. In other words, you seem to be telling the story in a very intimate first-person way, as if you had traveled back in time to originally witness the events firsthand. How/why should I trust your narrative? What do you know that everybody else doesn't?
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  15. India is simply responding to Pakistan's relentless provocation - as anyone will, when goaded enough. Pakistan suffers from irredentism.
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  16. When I see the street agitation in Thailand calling for constitutional changes, it seems like China would have an interest in driving those constitutional changes to facilitate its dominance over the politics and policies of Thailand. In particular, China is very interested in building the Kra canal to allow its ships to traverse through the Thai peninsula -- including its naval ships, of course. This could allow them to directly cross into the Andaman Sea, bypassing the Straits of Malacca and the Andaman & Nicobar archipelago.
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  17.  Krishnkant Singh  do you understand that China does not see us as a potential partner, but as inferiors who need to be shown their place, in order for us to become more obedient supplicants to them?
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  18. I don't agree in the use of the words "irrational" and "xenophobia" here. Supporting one's own national sovereignty is neither "irrational" nor "xenophobic". Countries should be in control of their own national policies, and not have them dictated by others or by opportunistic events.
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  19. Oh, the training camps are in northern Pakistan where the US can't hit them - like Haqqania - and of course all of Southern Afghanistan is one big training field for them. But certainly India has recently attacked Pakistani training camps in POK using satellites to precisely coordinate surgical strikes. But clearly, as the numerous terror attacks inside Pakistan have shown, Pakistan's intense cultivation of terrorist movements have even put Pakistan itself at risk. So you don't need to take my word for it - just look at all the suicide bombings in Pakistan to recognize that they've turned their own soil into a house of terror.
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  20. On the contrary, BJP has earned the confidence of the people with its track record against corruption. I don't know what highground a Pakistani would hope to take in giving lectures on corruption - your Nawaz Sharif and your Zardari have all been upto their eyeballs in corruption, and so has your army which is full of profiteers.
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  21. Hah - and the US doesn't re-draw rules?
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  22. Andaman & Nicobar Islands are our Gibraltar
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  23.  @Spectification  India is not interested in interfering with ordinary shipping -- it's China's navy that India has concerns about, since it would be used to project force against India.
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  24. ​ @Sergey Bebenin - Ukraine was committing human rights atrocities against civilians -- bombarding civilian areas with shells and missiles. Ukrainian military incorporated hardline ethno-fascist groups into its ranks, and sent them to fight in ethnic enclaves where they killed ethnic Russian civilians. Ukraine has never been an homogeonous land, and those ethnic Russians were native to the soil, and were being ethnically cleansed by the fascists.
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  25. There's no relationship between Kashmir and Palestine - other than the fact that Islamist terrorists seek to exploit both conflicts to further their agenda. musicalman, your comments about Kashmir are rubbish - are you pretending that Islam is native to Kashmir and the oldest ethnicity there? Don't be ridiculous.
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  26. "We are now at war with 𝙾̶𝚌̶𝚎̶𝚊̶𝚗̶𝚒̶𝚊̶ Maphilindo"
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  27. Heck no - the Russians have gotten reassurances from China, which has more than ample demand for Russian energy supplies. Russia wants concessions on Ukraine, and China on Taiwan. So naturally they're both working together for mutual benefit.
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  28.  @udontknowme7798  As mentioned in the beginning, India has retaliatory strike capability, so China can't use a nuclear strike unless it wants to be hit back.
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  29. 2sunami Uhh, documented by whom? What was their objectivity? "Analyse" is a word - give us a transparent analysis, citing your sources and how you came about your interpretations. Otherwise, the "analysis" I'm hearing sounds a lot like political spin.
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  30. Shirvan, rather than showing a one-sided bias, if you really believe there's geographic determinism, then why not also explore the geographic determinism for the United States as well? By the same standard, a similar argument could be made that America's own geographic distance from the Eurasian continent compels it to become a Far Emperor constantly meddling in the affairs of these distant lands, under the pretext of defending "freedom", "liberty", etc which are in increasingly dwindling supply at home.
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  31.  @Spectification  India is a responsible international actor, and does not interfere with regular commercial shipping. As you point out, that would only attract the ire of the international community. However, China's naval expansionism is a different matter, and India is not alone in its concern about it.
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  32. China has a naval base which can be supported by this canal. This will enable China to deepen its claims on the South China Sea.
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  33. I think that because these are religious figures, there's a whole lot of incentive for the faithful to put spin on their actions, and make them more palatable - like a Hollywood movie. In real life, real history doesn't always have everyone behaving perfectly nobly, or being tragically misunderstood, etc.
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  34. Habiba, speaking of dividing people - what do you have to say about Pakistan's latest scheme to divide Gilgit-Baltistan away from Kashmir and make it Pakistan's fifth province? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7FPLjkXkAE2_fT.jpg Any opinion to share on it, or cat got your tongue? More Pakistani stuntsmanship, as usual.
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  35. I haven't heard of any man-portable anti-ship missiles, though. Fighting at sea is much harder to do for guerrillas, and they don't really have any place to hide.
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  36. China + North Korea + Cambodia that's all I can come up with
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  37. I still wish to congratulate you on your attention to such important issues, and liked the overall style of your presentation.
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  38. Debangsu Sarkar - India is a pluralistic democracy like America
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  39. Putin is an okay guy - he's no saint - but he's a patriot who's looking out for his country's national interests. It's worth saying that Russia is not the USSR, and is not exporting communist totalitarianism around the world. Communism is dead - Islamism is the only totalitarian ideology still vigorously trying to spread itself worldwide. That's why ISIS is still spreading and Taliban & AlQaeda are making a comeback in Afghanistan. Islamism is the real threat. After WW2 ended, it was important to discard the old threat of Nazism and wake up to the new threat of Communism, and now with the end of the Cold War, it's important to discard the old Moscow threat and wake up to the new threat of Islamism and Chinese expansionism. Huntington pointed out that China and Islam would partner together to oppose the Western world.
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  40. +Akin Khoo -- if China's puppet Pakistan nukes India, then India will nuke both Pakistan and China. We have the means to reduce PRC and its infrastructure to rubble. All of their infrastructure simply means they have more to lose.
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  41. ​ @Do you want to give me le kiss? - so no more Paris Climate Treaty? Does that suddenly get thrown out with this latest geopolitical event? Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel by far.
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  42. @Recovering_Californian US Democrats / Liberals who lose elections believe everything bad happens because of Russia.
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  43. Andaman & Nicobar Islands are our Gibraltar
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  44. Some idiot politicians and generals are talking about 'No Fly Zones' It's ridiculous play a game of chicken with a nuclear-armed power.
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  45.  @jeyaramsathees6128  - nothing has been renamed, just the artificial Article370 has been sidelined. Ladakhis are still overwhelmingly Buddhist, and have long wanted to be free of Srinagar's grip. Jammuites likewise don't want to be dominated by the Valley.
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  46.  @NKhaannn  - Entire Pakistan is collapsing. Desperately running with begging bowl trying to save themselves. In Pakistan, poor are fighting for food.
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  47. "Up the krieg without a paddle" 😬
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  48. As he goes into exile, Zelensky can hand over his T-shirt and cargo pants wardrobe to Syria's new guy
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  49. Justin doesn't want you to know, in case you're not okay with it. He and his party are more about ensuring their future interests, rather than yours.
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  50. +Zain YG -- it's the artificial name created by Pakjabis in Islamabad to lord over the Pashtuns.
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