Krishna Manoorkar

just a 'logic'al person | Ph.D. student, VU Amsterdam| Mathematics | Politics | Chess | IITK alumnus

[Ajay Ahlawat @Ahlawat2012]

Gen Raj Shukla makes great points

All these are great ideas- all of them, and timely too.

I have one disagreement though.

Suggestion made- We should build over a lakh drones (Shaed like) at 33k crores today.

Experience from Ukraine tells us that- in case of drones, the software changes every 10 days, the hardware changes every 10 weeks.

If we build and stockpile today, the would be outdated in a few months/years time.

Instead of building those drones, we need to build the capacity to build drones- all domestic- that can be surged when required. Stockpiling that many drones, for that long, is not wise.

[Krishna Manoorkar @KManoorkar]

"I've seen gluts not followed by shortages, but I've never seen a shortage not followed by a glut."

[Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta]

'The era of critical-minerals shortages is behind us. Era of glut is about to dawn'

David Fickling @davidfickling writes

[Krishna Manoorkar @KManoorkar]

@DikshaYrrr F8v ub9b

[Krishna Manoorkar @KManoorkar]

@avinashsamanta @IndinNederlands @DrSJaishankar How did you manage to get the appointment? Can you please inform me if possible?

[Krishna Manoorkar @KManoorkar]

For God's sake can these people either watch the game or shut up about things they have zero idea about. Victimhood complex.

[Prof राजीवः श्रीनिवासः @RajeevSrinivasa]

note that the Scandinavian didn't bang the table when he lost to the Chinese guy. why? because that's reserved for brown Indian.

i used to think Scandinavians were decent people. bitter experience over the years proves otherwise.

[Krishna Manoorkar @KManoorkar]

Israel does many things well, but this obsession to compare with them is stupid Indian trope.

[Krishna Manoorkar @KManoorkar]

Led country to:
- A place where his own Air Force was protesting against him.
- to mass terror attack where 100s got killed and kidnapped by a terror outfit
- Unable to stop nuclear Iran
- Years of wars without decisive victories
- severe drop in bipartisan US support

[Samrat @BhaiiSamrat]

Btao Hum inse Compare kar rahe they

[Krishna Manoorkar @KManoorkar]

Don't be Israel, be America/China. Results over posturing.

[Krishna Manoorkar @KManoorkar]

What is this Indian hawk obsession with Israel? Apart from.complete difference in positions of both, Israel has hardly improved its strategic position in years. It still loses people to terrorists and keeps fighting costly wars. Kill count and agression does define success.

[Krishna Manoorkar @KManoorkar]

We had our objectives, we achieved them, and we prepare for the next round (hopefully, creating even more massive economic, diplomatic and military differenial by then). Only problem to me is trigger happy Trump jumping the gun over our administration. But, that's just Trump.

[Krishna Manoorkar @KManoorkar]

What is wrong with degense 'X'perts? We managed to hit deep inside a nuclear armed state multiple times. Both terrorist and military sights destroyed. Great advert for domestic military industrial complex. Why exactly not de-escalate now?

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

I can't believe that @JDVance doesn't get that it is not about a specific case, but a grand principle; for the violation of due process is the mother of all slippery slopes.

[Balaji @balajis]

Here's the thing.

Sure, the EU can't defend itself without Republican allies. They're just LARPing. They have minimal military production. So they need the Republicans.

All true.

But Republicans can't defend themselves without allies either.

How can we prove that? Count up the core members of the American Empire:

🔴 Trump voters - 77M
🔵 Kamala voters - 75M
🇺🇸 Other Americans - 183M
🇪🇺 EU - 447M
🇯🇵 Japan - 125M
🇰🇷 South Korea - 51M
🇬🇧 UK - 68M
🇨🇦 Canada - 40M
🇦🇺 Australia/NZ - 31M

That's 1.1B people.
What Putin calls the Golden Billion.
But there are only 77M Trump voters.
So, it might be nice to have the other 1B+ on your side.

[Raj Shukla @Gen_RajShukla]

The Americans had estimated that negotiations with Zelensky would be easy; it would be Putin that would be the tougher customer

Yesterday's events - with Zelensky insisting on security guarantees even before signing the Minerals Deal, has come as a surprise

Dealing with Putin's maximalist demands will be even more difficult

Trump's team might like to review its foreign policy initiatives in two ways : one, public berating of national leaders is not a good idea and two, if the initiatives are driven by a pathological, publicly articulated hatred for Biden, it is not particularly helpful

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@Kasparov63 I truly do not understand how America benefits from siding with Russia. It's so mystifying that I can't help wondering again whether Putin has some kind of hold over Trump.

[Balaji @balajis]

It is very bad when the other guys are coordinated and the home team is not coordinated.

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

When they say Moscow is cheering, it's not figurative.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

No, Trump has destroyed America in the eyes of the world.