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Oh boy.... So have they figured out the new evolving basket of goods to measure inflation on next?

It needs autocrat goons of real intensity to do this in sri lanka from their end. Rajapaksa (the younger) even banned (non organic) pesticides on a whim....and tried a mini mao approach (dbling down on it, rejecting all advisor input etc) and got a mao result in the agricultural production...

Earlier related bit I made in quad thread: However this one goes, hopefully they pick a different name to "Quad" again heh... @500 @Philip the Arab et al.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-us-israel-uae-coming-together-to-form-a-2nd-quad/articleshow/87095072.cms NEW DELHI: Israel wants India, with its transformed relationship with the Arab world, to play a greater role in the Middle East’s emerging strategic landscape. On the eve...

Been 10 pages since I was in this thread last(I'm sure theres been plenty of civil debate and exchange of understanding and views changed in in interim heh)....this popped up in my feed recently...

If this pans out, the TEDBF project will die prematurely @Gessler @Gautam @Milspec @crixus et al. @Zapper

https://theprint.in/defence/eye-on-mega-deal-with-navy-dassault-will-fly-rafale-marine-to-india-in-2022-for-showcase-trip/751244/ Dassault Aviation had been in talks with Navy for the naval version of Rafale even before the French giant signed the contract for 36 air force fighters in 2016...

Another dimension evolving in French - India relations @Vergennes https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/information-tech/how-a-frenchman-sitting-in-paris-transformed-wipro/articleshow/87102989.cms

Their "rajapaksa" govt ran to CCP for all kind of white elephant projects........and now they come back to India for basic thing... This is export of zombie-project culture to badly run govts @Viva_vietnamm ....the consequences... @VCheng @Jackdaws @crixus et al.

Amid a severe fuel crisis,Sri lanka has asked for a 500 million dollar loan from India to pay for its crude oil purchases. This comes a few days after the Sri Lankan energy minister Udaya Gammanpila warned that the current availability of fuel will last only till january next year. Note that Sri...

Respect!

Later I will bring some of the older naval aviation replies in larger navy thread to here...and maybe pin this one...

To be fair, one must live somewhere and experienced somewhere deeply to know it well enough to pronounce credible judgements. You need to break bread with them, live with them, love them and hate them (and all in between)....and listen to them and fight with them...and make peace with...

I disagree on the notion of collapsing/collapsed. I am no ally of the severe strategic mistakes the US has been doing since the cold war ended (and also much of their unecesary genesis during the cold war as well). The war on poverty since LBJ time (when he wasnt occupied with listening to...

Definitely. JAXA for example funded the bulk of my friends PhD here (in Canada) as just one example....in a cooling system theory, research and prototyping. Australia has had notable success in scramjet arena for its size....a conversation that would often come up (with some humour involved)...

I welcome such efforts to reduce govt extraction from sectors that can employ labour well. India needs to change more of its farm labour to construction labour still. Govt overhead needs to be reduced as close to zero here.

They are largely two sides of the same coin. Underneath the political bigwigs the bureaucracy basically prevails and continues whatever the administration, and it is a cut above rest of Indian states in general. Delivery matters because there is severe anti-incumbency force present in TN....so...