China v India

[The Atheist]

Heh. Sounds like I was right about it being a nothingburger.

It always will be when it comes to China, because India will never catch up.

Modi will stick to throwing his weight around where the opposition have sticks & stones - Kashmir.

 

[The Atheist]

The border dispute enters a new phase, and it's killing thousands of kids!

(Goat kids, that is)

 

[theprestige]

And to think I was worried about another serious military flare-up in the world.

 

[The Atheist]

Susheel nailed it straight away - Modi playing to his fan base.

As soon as China came along with a couple of extra divisions, he pulled back.

 

[Susheel]

Right now, in the midst of the pandemic, the BJP is primarily focusing on the run up to the elections in the state of Bihar. mIllions being spent on campaign rallies. The rhetoric being engineered is that Modi has averted the border crisis through sheer Hindu masculinity.

 

[The Atheist]

The rhetoric being engineered is that Modi has averted the border crisis through sheer Hindu masculinity.

Quite bizarre that cults of toxic masculinity are happy to be led by someone who's the exact opposite of a strong man.

Modi's a short-arse weed, Trump's a draft-dodging coward, and a military tribunal had this to say about Bolsonaro:

According to this board, Bolsonaro had a "serious personality deviation and a professional deformation", "lack of moral courage to leave the Army" and "lied throughout the process"

I can then add in a few famous corporals who rose to power, and looks like there's some weird defect in the kind of people who follow them.

 

[theprestige]

Susheel nailed it straight away - Modi playing to his fan base.

As soon as China came along with a couple of extra divisions, he pulled back.

Susheel and I both. Your OP made it sound a lot more serious.

 

[theheno]

Susheel and I both. Your OP made it sound a lot more serious.

Ahh OK you can have some of the glory. Well done

 

[Susheel]

Well, it's now Nepal. They have recently redrawn the borders and the new map which will be officially endorsed by the Parliament. There were firings by the Nepal police at the border in which one Indian was killed and several others injured. Seems like our neighbours have realised the underneath that fat suit Modi wears, there is actually self centred snivelling rat. The problem began when the BJP in India began to infiltrate the hindu polity in Nepal to sow seeds of radicalism and fundamentalism during the first year of Modi's tenure in 2014. Nepal has more or less cold shouldered India since then.

 

[The Atheist]

Modi's ambitions remind me of English generals on the western front in WWI - taking over enemy territory one square foot at a time.

Modi does realise who Nepal is best mates with these days?

 

[Chanakya]

Countries, people, get the government the deserve. To bring in another cliche, fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me! India elected Modi not once but twice. What does that say about the people of India?

You don't get a Trump -- not twice, at any rate -- unless something's seriously broken somewhere.

Back in India: Who's representative, and who the anomaly? Gandhi, or this megalomaniac?

 

[The Atheist]

Back in India: Who's representative, and who the anomaly? Gandhi, or this megalomaniac?

Susheel will give you a better analysis, but as I see it, Modi and the current place the BJP sits in are direct descendants of the people who assassinated Gandhi. Like USA, it's a situation that has been decades in the making.

Swap BJP for the Republicans and Modi for Trump and you'd never know the difference.

 

[Delvo]

there's not an ice-cream's chance in hell Modi would try to actually escalate anything with China anyway - he is outclassed by an order of magnitude these days.

That's what Xi said.

 

[MRC_Hans]

Three days in, and the commentary is ORANGE MAN BAD. Is there even a China v India issue right now?

Yes, I agree. "Orange man bad" is immaterial. After all, we all know that.

As for China and India, I think none of them have much interest in a serious conflict, but both can use a bit of diversion from domestic issues.

Hans

 

[Manger Douse]

Indian soldiers killed in clash with Chinese forces:

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-53061476#click=https://t.co/7t7wfV4Fa6

 

[The Atheist]

But no shots were fired.

Looks like the Chinese have loaded the front with 14k Triad.

 

[dudalb]

Indian soldiers killed in clash with Chinese forces:

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-53061476#click=https://t.co/7t7wfV4Fa6

It was inevitible. When you have these border incidents constantly, someone is going to get killed.

 

[theprestige]

And what exactly are they fighting over? I don't think the land in disute is of much value, either economically or strategically.
One is reminded of o Voltaire's famous comment on the French and Indian War; "France and England are going to war over a few acres of snow".

Voltaire sounds like an ass. France and England were fighting over access to a literal New World of vast wealth to be exploited.

 

[Susheel]

The Modi government is in silent mode and heavily downplaying the situation. They initially denied the casualties and then went on to admit to a couple, and have now settled on 20. Of course "you should have seen the other guy". One media channel held the army personnel posted at the border to task and tried to divert any responsibility from the government. This resulted in a huge backlash on twitter against the channel.
The ModiSha duo are currently like the monkey clutching at a fist full of nuts (the state elections in Bihar) in a narrow necked jar. They don't want to let go of the nuts arranged at humungous cost and effort, to deal with the situation at the border.

 

[The Atheist]

Excellent post, mate - from the metaphor to the description of the action.