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Lot of it traces back a long time to really understand it well and put into context....Burma's history is quite fascinating subject. Their large scale repeated wars with Thailand/Siam....their respective identities/issues formed during that (same for Khmer and Vietnamese further east). How...

It's essentially turned into a civil war now. Largest I have seen it since the democratic forces are officially backing the rebels and anyone that is against the junta (remember it was NLD that brought all groups together to invest into the new constitution which has been effectively scrapped...

It just RFI stage, so it goes to OEM (Otokar in this case w.r.t Turkey) rather than specific product (Altay) they have made (since brochures on that already out there). Though specific products (i.e production chain) do show proven capability so definitely high influence in making the RFP later...

I agree it will degrade @Kaptaan ....remains to be seen how much since there is lot of things in play as to how other neighbours see Taliban. We will simply catch up early summer 2022 on this and see how many of your predictions came true.

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Lack of veto or strategic partnership etc, is not necessarily any deal breaker....as we have enough going on with France more broadly. We should do this by the book as far as possible given the size of this and also we need the best deal possible. So I just dont think the Germans, Koreans or...

Indian Economy just needs to get lot bigger and broader...given its population. There is only so much that can be done without that raw sustenance. Economic heft just does things no amount of words and finesse etc can do (rather that should come after to help it...rather than other way around...

Guys, I would also not write off South Koreans here, let us see how RFP downselection goes (and if they say combine an effort with Germans in some regard given how they have collaborated in proven sizeable way). Remember South Korea has the only proven SSK design commited to, manufactured and...

Yeah so using your argument, NOT selecting Barracuda-SSK (like RAN can afford to, but we simply cannot).... would be step in right direction in getting more capacity for every rupee on the final bill. Its highly non-ideal situation for sure as much as we can project/analyse in first half of...

Yah but I mean more from why arab countries would approach US geopolitical umbrella on it as "the go to". For one, you get France and UK kind of automatically thrown in (among P5) if done that way. This stuff is de jure not necessary (NPT itself is very grey in lot of definitions, so IAEA has...

This project is ongoing: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/hindustan-shipyard-to-build-5-naval-support-vessels-with-turkish-help-101614007642406.html

It can go further in another driver aspect, because there is fairly large trade surplus in India's favour each year....about 6 - 7 billion yearly in last couple years before covid crisis. This means by economics.... there is inherent price-competitive advantage (currently) that Turkey would...

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