Geopolitics by Swapnil

Bhartiya 🇮🇳 in the UK 🇬🇧
InsureTech professional with keen interest in Geo Politics

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

Journalist: President Trump praised PM Modi as a tough negotiator. Does this mean India has finally arrived on the world stage?

Foreign Secretary Misri: India has been on the world stage for the last 7000 years when I last checked

[Geopolitics by Swapnil @Geopolitics_brf]

@HCI_London @MEAIndia @UKinIndia @BritIndianVoice @ficci_india @PiyushGoyal @biztradegovuk @BJP4India @narendramodi
#UKindia #Tradedeal

[Frontalforce 🇮🇳 @FrontalForce]

IAF Official's Wife Alleges R*pe, Forced Conversion. 2 Abduls Arrested, Maulana On Run

Now they are targeting our soldiers families 😡

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

On behalf of men I’d like to apologise for
• agriculture
• civilisation
• urbanisation
• literacy
• construction
• industrialisation
• technology
• transport
The things that have led to climate change. @deespeak should immediately give up all of these.

[Dr. S. Jaishankar @DrSJaishankar]

Spoke to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio this evening. I reiterated India’s strong protest at the attacks by the US Navy in the Gulf that killed three Indian mariners. Such lethal actions against commercial shipping are not justified.

[Shesh Paul Vaid @spvaid]

The same Western media, along with Al Jazeera, that never misses a chance to lecture India on press freedom is now facing a complete blackout across the entire Middle East. All footage and clips emerging from Iran's ballisitic missile attacks in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait are coming from OSINT sources, not the mainstream media. The sheer hypocrisy is hard to miss.

[Ja. @prince_the_duck]

Support such videos my friends, we gotta flood internet with such videos

[Geopolitics by Swapnil @Geopolitics_brf]

Kaisa jhatka laga @INCIndia ... I don't think in any century going forward you will ever win

[Subhakeerthana @bhakisundar]

I can't fathom what I saw. A CM bites into an apple, flings it at the crowd. Picks up another, gnaws at it like a monkey, lobs that one too... and the crowd scrambles for it like a divine blessing. This country is beyond redemption. Nobody can save these people from themselves!

[Ram @ramprasad_c]

Yes, Britain famously transferred wealth to India. When British arrived in India its share of the world economy was 4%. When they left in 1947, they had taken it to 23%, roughly equal to all of Europe combined.
On a serious note.
The Indian railways were financed entirely by bonds sold on the London Stock Exchange. British investors were guaranteed a return of 5% per annum by the colonial government. A guaranteed return, in an era when no other safe investment in Britain offered anything close. And who guaranteed those returns? Indian taxpayers. Indians paid for the construction. Indians paid the guaranteed profits to British shareholders. Indians paid for the equipment, which was manufactured exclusively in Britain and shipped to India at inflated prices. One mile of Indian railway cost twice what the same mile cost to build in Canada or Australia, because the guaranteed return meant there was no incentive to control costs. The more it cost, the more British investors and suppliers earned.

And what were these railways designed to do? Move raw materials from India’s interior to ports. Cotton from the Deccan to Bombay. Jute from Bengal to Calcutta. Coal from Bihar to wherever the Empire needed it. Tea from Assam to London’s drawing rooms. The routes connected mines and plantations to harbors. Not cities to cities. Not people to opportunities. Raw materials to ships. The Indian public’s transportation needs were, as Shashi Tharoor put it, entirely incidental.

Oh, and the railways also moved troops. Very efficiently. So that when Indians protested being looted, the British could deploy soldiers to shoot them. That was the other “infrastructure investment.”

But wait, there is more. Before the railways, India had the world’s finest textile industry. The British smashed the looms, broke the weavers’ thumbs (this is not metaphor, this is documented history), imposed tariffs on Indian cloth, and shipped raw cotton to Manchester to be manufactured into garments that were then sold back to Indians. India went from being the world’s largest textile exporter to an importer of British cloth within a generation.

The Bengal Famine of 1943 killed an estimated 3 million people. Churchill diverted food supplies from Bengal to already well-supplied British troops and European stockpiles. When informed of the famine, his response, on the record, was to ask why Gandhi had not died yet. This is the “infrastructure investor” Musk is defending.

India contributed 2.5 million soldiers to fight in two World Wars on Britain’s behalf.

So let us summarize the colonial “investment” in India. They took a 23% global economy and left it at 4%. They destroyed the world’s finest textile industry. They built railways with Indian money, for Indian resources, generating British profits. They engineered famines that killed millions. They drained an estimated $45 trillion in today’s value over 200 years.
That’s some unprofitable adventure.

[Babu Bhaiya @Shahrcasm]

Mamta ~ Aap Sab Konsi Party Ticket Se Election Jeete The ?

Rebel MPs - TMC.

Mamta ~ To Mujhe Support Karo...

Rebel MPs - TMC...

[India First Post @ifpost47]

The people at BBC are not only racist to Indians but also classist towards their own citizens

What do they mean by NHS nurse?

Doesn't she have a name?

[Muji Singh Rangi @mujifren]

Saar I have no political affiliation Saar

100% pure organic movement Saar

Who is Kejriwal Saar

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

“Anti Fascist” N Ram finds it hilarious that Revanth Reddy modelled & named HYDRAA after Hitler’s organisations and favourite word. Imagine if any BJP minister had said this

[Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha]

Dear @ShashiTharoor , I enjoyed your spirited defence of Rahul Gandhi. Alas, it does not address the central thesis of my column and interview—his dismal leadership record. The facts speak for themselves.The Congress suffered heavy defeats in three successive General Elections fought under his leadership. Meanwhile, the number of Congress MLAs has come down by almost 50% under his watch.
In 2013, the Congress was in power in 14 states. That was the party Rahul Gandhi inherited. Now the Congress is in power in just 5 states. As the countrywide footprint of the party shrinks, surely its principal leader should be held accountable? Or is that a question too uncomfortable for the Congress to face?

[Tejasvi Surya @Tejasvi_Surya]

But will acquire 6 acres of Lalbagh to build tunnel road.

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

🚨 Just IN 🚨

Israel is planning to install a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in one of its major cities, confirms Israel's Consul General to Mumbai.

[DesiEsco🇮🇳 @DesiEsco7]

Use headphones and feel the music.

[Mandar Deepa Manmohan Sawant @MandarSawant184]

Congis are worried their 56 yr old shitnayak is being ignored by the Gen Z

[Aravind @aravind]

I think the millions and millions of Gen-Z followers of this movement from Kansas, Palestine, Pakistan, Ivory Coast, Malaysia etc couldn't join the protests. Because they were just phones in farms that failed to instigate the Gen-Z organically in India. DS has once again failed.