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@RebelNewsOnline This Banker knows chemistry and now Next gen computer science!

Bull shit artist.

[Not Just Headlines @Notjustheadline]

🚨INDIA FINALLY ANSWERS AMERICA: India Sidelines Quad, Builds JAI, Calls Out Pakistan’s F-16s & Exports Operation Sindoor Doctrine

At the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus in Cebu, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made a series of moves that carried a much larger strategic message.

First came the JAI moment.

Instead of putting the spotlight on the Quad, Rajnath Singh publicly highlighted Japan, Australia and India, the three partners moving forward without US.

Then came the tougher message for US.

During his meeting with US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Rajnath Singh raised India’s concerns over America’s decision to provide Pakistan with a major F-16 sustainment and modernisation package. India’s objection was not simply about Pakistan receiving weapons. It was about the possibility of sensitive American technology eventually reaching China and it's impact on terrorism.

But India did not stop with criticism.

It offered something far more consequential to the 19 countries participating in the ADMM-Plus framework.

India offered its counter-terrorism experience.

Rajnath Singh presented Operation Sindoor as practical, battle-tested experience rather than classroom theory. India’s message was that decades of confronting terrorism have created an operational playbook that can be shared through intelligence cooperation, joint exercises and capacity-building.

Then comes the BrahMos factor.

Southeast Asian nations are increasingly focused on maritime security and the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific. The Philippines has already acquired BrahMos from India. Expanding such defence cooperation gives New Delhi something far more valuable than export revenue: long-term strategic relationships in China’s neighbourhood.

And Beijing noticed.

China did not send its Defence Minister to the meeting. Instead, its defence attaché in Manila represented Beijing. Chinese commentary subsequently portrayed the gathering as another example of geopolitical bloc-building and criticised the growing security cooperation involving the US, Japan and regional partners.

But there was an intriguing detail.

India itself was not the primary target of Beijing’s criticism.

That tells us something about New Delhi’s strategy.

India is not abandoning America. It is not joining China. It is not becoming subordinate to either bloc.

It is building its own room to manoeuvre.

[Tejasvi Surya @Tejasvi_Surya]

History will perhaps judge Prime Minister Narendra Modi as one of the most consequential reformers of our times, in the league of Lee Kuan Yew and Deng Xiaoping. In one crucial respect, his achievement may be even more remarkable.

The World Bank’s latest estimates reveal an extraordinary transformation. Nearly 50 crore Indians moved above the lower-middle-income poverty line between 2011–12 and 2023–24. Extreme poverty fell from 27.1% to just 2.6%.

Consider the circumstances in which this transformation has taken place. A decade marked by a global pandemic, wars, geopolitical instability, supply chain disruptions and slowing global growth. Yet India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing major economies.

But what makes Modi’s leadership truly exceptional is the political environment in which he has pursued this transformation.

Lee Kuan Yew, the architect of modern Singapore, once famously remarked, “No single person can change India.” He pointed to India’s extraordinary linguistic and social diversity and the immense difficulty of governing such a complex nation. He contrasted this with China, which he considered far easier to govern and transform because of its more centralised political system and greater linguistic cohesion.

Lee Kuan Yew transformed Singapore. Deng Xiaoping transformed China. Both were extraordinary leaders. But Singapore was a small city-state, while China’s transformation took place under a one-party political system.

India is different. A billion-plus people. Hundreds of languages. Extraordinary social, cultural and regional diversity. Competitive elections, powerful state governments, independent institutions, competing interests and multiple constitutional checks and balances.

Reforming a country of this complexity, at this scale, while continuously seeking and winning the people’s democratic mandate, requires a rare combination of political acumen, administrative ability and leadership.

Modi has demonstrated that democracy and decisive development are not mutually exclusive.

That is perhaps his greatest contribution, not just to India, but to the global faith in democracy itself.

When the history of great reformers of the 21st century is written, Narendra Modi will deserve a place among the foremost.

[Federal Reserve @federalreserve]

Approval of application by The Bank of Nova Scotia: https://t.co/RTW11jrYJS

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@dmichaelclary Compared to Vivek you are big L liberal.

You just don’t understand his history.

Sad.

[Kevin Pietersen🦏 @KP24]

The India I know and love!
cc - @narendramodi 🙏🏽

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@jillyonthehilly This guy is a moron.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The value of Terafab’s output will place it in the top 20 of country GDP in a single building

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@MinhazMerchant @sgurumurthy @firstpost Excellent analysis.

[Minhaz Merchant @MinhazMerchant]

Washington & Beijing worry that if India can grow at nearly 8% a year amid global wars, $100 oil, trade tariffs & El Niño drought, what might its growth rate be when the clouds clear? My @firstpost column https://t.co/NTmVsqAxB7

[Darshit Patel @darshitpatel84]

The Modi luck strikes yet again.

Barely 48 hours into Elon’s meltdown, and he single-handedly convinced the entire country why handing critical telecom infrastructure to an unpredictable billionaire is a massive security risk.

Modi looks like a visionary without lifting a single finger. 😃😃😃

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

This is the post of the year.

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

Exhibit A

[Conrad Black @ConradMBlack]

While Europe is distracted by disorders in France, revolving-door governments in Great Britain and the disintegration of the German coalition, a major shift is underway in Latin America. Flavio Bolsonaro’s first-round victory over the three-term president and seven-time candidate Lula da Silva is another decisive turn to the responsible right.

A series of conservative victories in Argentina, Paraguay, Honduras, El Salvador, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia has already constituted a tidal wave of support for a Pan-American and pro-American hemispheric shift. The addition of Brazil would complete an almost full sweep of the entire hemisphere, except to a limited extent Mexico.

The juntas have gone, and the old Peronist formula of blaming everything on the United States has given way to popular electoral forces emulating the United States. Not since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor policy of ninety years ago has America exercised such positive leadership in its hemisphere, as the final detritus of the ghastly Castro experiment in Cuba flounders dismally to its end.

[Chaya Eitan @ChayaEitan]

🇮🇱 IMAGINE THE SHOCK OF IDF SOLDIERS ENTERING HEZBOLLAH’S UNDERGROUND FORTRESS!

After years of intelligence gathering and preparation, Israeli soldiers finally entered the enormous underground complex beneath Ali al-Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon.

What they encountered was extraordinary.

A hidden military world carved into the mountain. Command centers. Weapons stores packed with rockets, missiles, drones and anti-tank weapons. Living quarters, kitchens, showers, generators and extensive underground passages.

Hezbollah had spent years building this fortified complex with Iranian support.

Imagine the realization: this was not just a tunnel. It was an entire underground military installation, designed to help Hezbollah wage war against Israel.

Israeli soldiers worked to secure the complex, clear its underground routes and enable the destruction of this massive terror infrastructure.

Years of construction. Enormous resources. A fortress hidden beneath a mountain.

And the IDF got inside.

🇮🇱 The intelligence. The courage. The determination. This is what Israel’s soldiers accomplished.

AM YISRAEL CHAI! 🇮🇱

[Kosher @koshercockney]

BREAKING 🔴

The United States has just imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court.

Only hours after the Nobel Peace Prize was ridiculously awarded to Navi Pilay (former ICC judge)

INCREDIBLE MOVE BY THE US 🇺🇸

Marco Rubio’s Press Statement October 9th 2026:

“For decades, Republicans and Democrats alike rejected the idea that the International Criminal Court had the power to prosecute American citizens, military servicemembers, or political leaders. America never joined the court. We don’t need it. And we don’t want it.

But globalist “experts” an ocean away don’t care what American citizens think.

They want the ICC to do more, including the prosecution of American citizens. Servicemembers defending their country, Border Patrol agents protecting our nation, and elected leaders ensuring our national security. They want more power, and they want it at our expense. 

President Trump will never allow the International Criminal Court to prosecute Americans. That is why, today, the United States is sanctioning the International Criminal Court. We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate.

We have been clear for over a year as to the basic gestures of good faith we have expected from the court. We exercised discretion and deferred this designation out of respect for our relationships and in hopes that the ICC would change course or would otherwise be restrained by States Parties. However, neither the ICC nor States Parties have yet taken meaningful steps to address our concerns. 

Despite their inaction, we hold out hope for a diplomatic solution. We have structured this action to provide an opportunity for States Parties to negotiate and present a solution to address our concerns. If these efforts do not bear fruit, we will continue to adjust accordingly.

Our message is clear: the United States and its people are not subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC. Both parties agree on this, but only President Trump has the resolve to take the action needed to end this threat for good. Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC. We expect our allies, many of whom are part of the ICC and that rely on American servicemembers for their defense, to rein in the court.

If they do not, the United States will continue its campaign to dismantle the ICC, brick by brick, until Americans are threatened no longer.

The ICC is being designated pursuant to section 1(a)(ii)(A) of Executive Order (E.O.) 14203.”

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@ronmortgageguy Almost all public sector jobs. Shouldn’t we be cheering?

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@MarcNixon24 When this guy is removed he will be reviled.

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@AgentSaffron It’s American policy not Trump policy.

Grow up kids.