Steel Axis

MBA grad| Sports geek| Hockey-Football-Cricket| Automobile Geek| Biker| Passionate about defence & security issues, geopolitics, espionage and diplomacy|

[Comman Man @CommanMan777589]

This not what the world expects from Bharat !!

India created history by winning its first-ever gold medal at the World Rowing Cup in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Indian Army rowers Lakshay and Ujjwal Kumar Singh achieved the historic feat in the lightweight men’s double sculls final.

The Indian duo clocked 6:26.09 to finish ahead of Hong Kong and the Netherlands, clinching the gold medal.

[Steel Axis @avsubham]

@gharkekalesh Just loved every bit of it. Hahahaa

[Steel Axis @avsubham]

@GabbbarSingh Just like how Odisha saw lol

[Steel Axis @avsubham]

@CivitasSameer Im from Odisha…chennai sambar is the actual OG. Blr sambar is meetha pani with a kick…

[Steel Axis @avsubham]

@3nlsw @AezakmiXen73749 @Neetivaan Instead of this…why not answer his question??

[Steel Axis @avsubham]

@aseisheated

[Steel Axis @avsubham]

Biharis are loud mouths. Mfs won’t be having food to eat 3 times a day but doing bakchodi is thier bread n butter and mind that cheap accent 😖😏

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Delhi: Over resignation of BJD MP Sasmit Patra from Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications & IT in protest against alleged disrespectful remarks against Former Odisha CM Biju Patnaik, BJP Nishikant Dubey says," Biju Patnaik ji was a tall freedom fighter, and BJP showed full respect to him...When Congress did injustice with Biju Babu, Jan Sangh and BJP stood by him...I repeat that I am releasing a series on the acts of Nehru-Gandhi family. Tell me, which allegation did I level at Biju Babu in my tweet?...If anyone is hurt by what I have written in my tweets, then I can only try to make them understand."

[KITKAT @KITKAT]

Regarding recent press coverage

[Steel Axis @avsubham]

@realSharmaJi25 Border

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

(Spoiler alert)

He is Nabil Gabol, a politician from the Pakistan People’s Party. Ever since Dhurandhar released, he had been basking in its glory, claiming that Jameel Jamali’s character was based on his life. He even blushed in interviews, saying people had started calling him Jameel Jamali.

But after Dhurandhar 2 came out, he has suddenly gone into full panic mode, insisting it’s absolutely not based on his life. Considering the IQ of Pakistan administration, don't be surprised if the Pakistan Army now picks him up and grills him properly on suspicion of being an Indian spy.

[Steel Axis @avsubham]

@Hacker_1495 @LolLol632658507 @ShivAroor Ok bro

[Steel Axis @avsubham]

@sidhant Bhakts will defend their father now. Why u posted this?

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

47% LNG supplies of India are from Qatar. It will impact us, Indian Energy officials on attack on energy facilities in West Asia

[Steel Axis @avsubham]

@coolcoder56 Raise your standards 😂😂😂

[Sensei Kraken Zero @YearOfTheKraken]

You can call Indians 76 IQ
You can say India has a rape culture
You can call Indians 'Third World Invaders'
You can use the worst slurs and racist language against Indians

But the moment you say the most obvious things criticising Pakistan and Islam
Popular 'Nationalists' will start falling over themselves to shower you with roses and praises

How pathetic, really

[Sania Ahmad @SaniaAhmad1111]

Sums up the Indian RW pretty much.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

6 YEARS: FROM COVID TO IRAN
TIME FOR SOME PAINFUL TRUTHS 🚨

Six turbulent years from Covid to the Ladakh standoff to Ukraine war to Trump’s tariff offensive to the current Iran war have exposed a hard truth. India remains dangerously dependent on the world for things a serious power should control at home.

Energy first, since that’s on everyone’s mind right now. India imports about 85% of its crude oil and roughly 50% of its natural gas. We depend heavily on overseas supply chains for critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and nickel that will power the next generation of batteries and energy systems. Any disruption anywhere from the Strait of Hormuz to sanctions on major producers immediately ripples through LPG prices, electricity costs and inflation. The current LPG anxiety during the Iran war is just the latest reminder of how exposed we are.

Defence is worse. Despite decades of rhetoric about indigenisation, India still imports roughly 45 to 50% of its major weapons systems, making it one of the world’s largest arms importers, if not the largest. During the Ladakh standoff with China (which is still on) the country had to rush through emergency purchases of munitions, drones, artillery shells and winter gear because either we don’t make those items or domestic capacity could not surge quickly enough. A country facing two nuclear adversaries should never have to scramble for weapons in the middle of a military standoff.

Pharmaceuticals reveal another uncomfortable truth. India is known as the pharmacy of the world, yet around 70% of our active pharmaceutical ingredients come from outside, including China. During Covid this vulnerability became obvious as India scrambled for oxygen, PPE kits, ventilators and key medical inputs.

Technology dependence is the most alarming of all. More than 90% of advanced semiconductors are imported, most high end AI chips and servers are foreign made, and critical digital hardware depends almost entirely on global supply chains. In an era where AI will define both economic power and military capability, this is a profound strategic vulnerability.

Add fertiliser precursors, rare earths, electronics components, solar modules and specialised machine tools and the list becomes even longer. Each time the world experiences a shock (Ukraine, Iran, Azerbaijan, Covid) whether it is a pandemic, sanctions on Russia, a war in West Asia or rising great power tensions India is forced into code red emergency management mode.

The uncomfortable reality is that true strategic autonomy requires historically painful decisions. Building domestic capacity in energy, weapons, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and AI will demand huge investment, long term industrial policy, and years of political risk. It may mean accepting higher costs and slower returns in the short term in order to build resilience for the long term.

But India’s election to election political cycle rewards short term thinking. No government wants to take decisions that may, beyond a point, take a decade to pay off. The decisions these crises compel from a country like India will mean a total dismantlement of our politics as we know it today. It will mean a generation of turning the country on its head.

Yet the alternative is worse. As things stand India remains structurally vulnerable. A country that has to scramble every time the world shakes cannot claim true strategic autonomy.

From COVID to Iran, the last six years have made that painfully clear.

[Vivek Singh @VivekSi85847001]

Map from cockpit of USAF Air Force One (Official plane of US President) showing entire J&K as part of Pakistan

[Steel Axis @avsubham]

@Mayankcoder0407 @c137_c @VivekSi85847001 Did you just denounce j&k for modi?