Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Hindustan Times" channel.

  1. The first sentence should have read "in LIEU of" not "lie of". Proofreading matters.
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  2. Russian leaders were and are to Eastern Europe as Winston Churchill was to India, but it was easy to permanently buy Indian allegiance with weapons shipments. Indian worship of the Kremlin is permanent and uncritical making that a spectacularly effective investment. BTW the Russian Federation is not the Soviet Union, which imploded due to economic and social incompetence and whose former Warsaw Pact conquests do not mourn its passing.
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  3. Concern troll detected.
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  4. The Times should send its own reporters and trust no one.
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  5. Putin is to Ukraine what Winston Churchill was to India. Buying Indian loyalty with weapons was just business and standard Soviet practice but it's paid off for Russia. India would be freer if it builds DOMESTIC weapons not from the US or Russia (though licensing tech from Korea or Israel is usually a safe bet). India could be a military powerhouse and replacing Russian junk with modern, Indian-engineered systems means economic growth and international freedom to act. Indian manufacturing costs mean military sales could succeed like vehicle sales where Indian products sell globally and the economies of scale plus the political influence that goes with arms would be pure win.
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  6. Let's remember nuclear weapons were on both sides of the Warsaw Pact border for decades before the implosion of the USSR and consensual evaporation of the Warsaw Pact. Poland having been invaded by Russia more than once in history has no desire to repeat the experience. While it's understandable for India to worship Putin as its loyalty is long bought and paid for by weapons shipments, that in no way makes Russia any less imperialist than the old British Empire under which Indians were starved and murdered. Putin is to Ukraine as Winston Churchill to India.
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  7. Russian rule over Ukraine was comparable with British rule over India, so why do Indians adore Putin and resent Ukrainian self-determination? I find this quite interesting because it took so many years and lives for India to free itself from British rule, yet Indians care nothing for other people who fight and die for their own freedom from imperialist rule. What's behind that? Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin blithely sacrificed their conquests to starvation to pursue their colonial aims. Should Churchill be adored as a deity the way Putin is by the Indian public?
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  8. So why didn't their three day Special Military Operation seize Kiev and the rest of Ukraine as promised?
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  9. Interesting that India is so in love with Putin whose dealings with conquered territory are quite like how the British Crown abused India.
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  10. This may be extremely difficult to understand but what the idiot public are told by idiotic hyperbolic "news" media has nothing to do with operational reality. (Media exist to put eyeballs on content which is the modern revenue model.) Flying defensive CAP missions is a wise use while leaving offense (mostly) to expendable drones. Neither Russia nor Ukraine have air dominance because both are too poor to afford US-style combined arms operations so drones really are the best suited tool for this particular war.
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  11. That goes with espionage. Of course the death penalty may be a gambit with an eventual settlement. It is unwise to let former senior officers take employment in competitor nations since they can be expected to divulge information under torture (no need to pretend human rights exist in the Middle East) and even if released the damage is done. Prior military should have reasonable retirement benefits to reduce the influence greed would have on weaker people (EVERY armed force has a few troops who should never have been inducted).
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  12. Heavily loaded cars are frequently VBIEDS when they're moving in a Middle East war zone. No civilian in their right mind would be on the streets near any point of contact in such a tiny area.
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  13. I remember USSR/Warsaw Pact fans being overly impressed with themselves too. Tanks die in war. Note the Abrams wasn't K-killed nor does it toss turrets (unless there is a massive buried IED beneath the road which has happened) and the crews don't tend to fry inside.
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  14.  @GeneralCreed  Russia is responsible for the entire global Left and the Cold War never ended. There is not some "either or" choice between border control (elect Trump and solve that) and preventing a NeoSoviet respawn. I get that youth don't know much or anything about what they imagine ancient history, but Russian imperialism never died. I was on the free side of the Berlin Wall back when Putin was still a KGB agent. He did not take losing lightly.
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  15. Why do Ukrainians not have the right to self-determination?
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  16. Israel like India faces an existential threat by Jihadist savages. Democracies must defend themselves and each other.
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  17. They should have been armed and trained since youth. Israel direly needs a universal commitment by Jews to personally defend themselves and each other. Pacifism in the face of evil, is evil. A universal healthy nationalist gun culture is the bedrock of democracy.
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  18. The CCP antagonizes all its neighbors except North Korea, and is the major threat to Indian interests after Pakistan.
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  19. ISIS is likely to attack all who resisted it. The pattern is historically familiar.
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  20. Russian military incompetence and lack of funding (its GDP is lower than California's) make this mostly a public relations gesture. INDIA should build out its sea power more aggressively as India is wealthier and far more competently run than the Russian Federation. Indian sea power will be a major deterrent to its opponents (Chinese trade cannot all go by land and ships are by far the best way to move bulk cargo) and secure civilian maritime trade. There is no reason India cannot choose to build shipyards then ships at Chinese or South Korean scale. The Indian ocean wasn't named by accident and fading neocolonial empires like the Russian Federation (who treat their conquests like Winston Churchill did the Indian peoples) cannot maintain maritime power projection at the scale required. Indian basing and seaport buildout is an enormous opportunity for India to develop more skilled manufacturing and raise its standard of living. Russia cannot loiter forever (it lacks underway replenishment and supporting vessels) while India has nearby geographic presence.
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