Vikram Singh

Surendra Veer Vikram Singh |
Research & Analysis. Defense, and Indo-Russian Relations | @UCLSSEES alumnus | Shooter | RT ≠ Endorsement

[Vikram Singh @svvikramsingh]

यदि यूरोपीय संघ रूस को दण्डित करने के लिए प्रतिबद्ध है तो रूस पर ऊर्जा प्रतिबंध लगाएगा और रूसी गैस और तेल खरीदना बंद कर देगा। रूसी उर्जा से यूरोप के घर रोशन होते रहेंगे और यूरोपीय धन से ही रुसी बंदूकों में गोलियां भरती रहेंगी।

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Unreal: the symbolism of Trump signing a surrender agreement at Versailles in which the US agrees to pay massive reparations is just too perfect.

I wouldn't be surprised if Macron weaponized Trump's complete ignorance of history and told him something like: "Mr. President, Versailles is where the most consequential deal of the 20th century was signed. Yours deserves the same stage."

Either that or Macron stumbled into the perfect historical parallel through sheer obliviousness - which, knowing him, is actually even more likely.

[Mahesh Jethmalani @JethmalaniM]

One detail from this Iran war should make every serious state sit up: credible reporting says Israeli leaders were shown an image of Khamenei’s body after it was recovered by Mossad agents - and that Israel had visibility on his fate faster than Iran could even confirm the death of it's supreme leader and shape the narrative. That’s not “tech”. That’s HUMINT + penetration.

Satellites don’t tell you who is in which room at what time. Signals don’t always survive encryption and discipline. What wins you wars and prevents surprises is human access so-urces, moles, defectors, recruited assets - the messy, thankless work of being inside the enemy’s bloodstream.

Israel has no luxury of being lazy at intelligence. It sits in a hostile neighbourhood with actors who openly want it erased. So it builds networks that aren’t “near the border.” They’re near the decision-makers. That’s what survival looks like when geography is unforgiving.

Now bring that lens to India. When you live next to Pakistan’s terror ecosystem and a Bangladesh theatre that keeps throwing up radical modules, you don’t get to be sentimental about “soft power” as a substitute for hard intelligence. You need early warning, deep penetration, counter-infiltration, and ruthless disruption - before the plot becomes a headline.

And this is exactly where the armchair moralists fail India. They love questioning operations after the fact. They hate the boring investments before the fact: intel budgets, source protection, language capability, field tradecraft, inter-agency fusion, and the political spine to back covert work without leaking it for TRPs.

Pop culture and superhit movies like Dhurandhar tells the story really well but makes it look stylish - one hero, one mission, one punchline. Real HUMINT though is the opposite: years of patience, ugly risks, zero credit, and often no medal because the best outcome is “nothing happened.”

This is not about chest-thumping. This is about statecraft. The world is moving into an age where wars are decided by who sees first, knows first, and shapes first. Israel gets that. India must get that - permanently. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and our intelligence apparatus, NEW INDIA definitely gets it.

Because 'terrorist harbouring neighbours' don’t send calendar invites before they strike. They send handlers, money, propaganda, and sleepers. The only answer is being inside that machinery early enough to break it.

If you want deterrence, stop thinking intelligence is an accessory. It’s the foundation.

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

My basic questions to government on Ethanol blending:

- Why aren’t we given the option to choose?
- Why no price cut when ethanol costs less?
- How it will reduce fuel consumption when mileage drops by 10-15%?

Silence isn’t an answer. Time for govt to come clean!

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Academia contains the highest density of meek cowards of any profession.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

This is why those who dismiss the Founding Fathers are destructive.

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

‘100 स्मार्ट सिटी वाला प्रोजेक्ट और 543 आदर्श सांसद ग्राम’ आपको पुकार रहे हैं…

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Imagine if our governments were run by people like Dr. Sowell instead of the lobotomized degenerates who currently do.

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

.@nitin_gadkari जी, ये कौन सी नई वसूली स्कीम है? इस पर भी वित्त मंत्री से कह कर टैक्स बढ़वा दीजिए। @narendramodi जी, हम टैक्स देने के बाद के बचे पैसों से गाड़ी लेते हैं। गाड़ी लेते समय रोड टैक्स भर देते हैं। फिर सड़क पर चलने के लिए हर पचास किलोमीटर पर टोल का टैक्स देते हैं।

टोल आप इसलिए लेते हैं कि सड़क बनाने का खर्चा निकल जाए। व्यक्ति वह भी सहता है कि चलो, सड़क तो अच्छी बन गई है। फिर पता चलता है कि ₹1896 की लागत वाली सड़क से ₹8349 करोड़ टोल वसूला जा चुका है।

मिडिल क्लास को काम छोड़ कर, सड़क निर्माण एवम् टोल वसूली के तंत्र में आ जाना चाहिए। असली पैसा वहीं बन रहा है।

[खुरपेंच @khurpenchh]

क्रीमी लेयर वाले और ac में बैठ के ब्रेड में क्रीम लगा के खा रहे हैं
नॉन क्रीमी वाले सड़क पे लाठी खा रहे हैं।

#BharatBand

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Europe is belatedly discovering how unbelievably stupid it was to import millions of people from cultures that despise Western values and which often promote hatred toward the people who have let them in.

[The Rājanyas @the_conqueror56]

India needs better architecture and aesthetics.

Our cities are all pathetic in planning, space, cleanliness, colors, beautiful plantations etc. Here's Barcelona compared to Delhi on the left. A complete overhaul is needed. 🧵 Thread...

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Today is Thomas Sowell’s 94th birthday.

https://t.co/QvQ1o5LeOn

[Dilip Mandal @Profdilipmandal]

यहां भारत में लोग मर रहे हैं गर्मी और लू लगने से और कुछ लोग हैं कि दिन-रात राफा और गाजा कर रहे हैं. जबकि उनको ये भी ठीक से पता नहीं है कि दुनिया के नक्शे में ये जगहें हैं किस जगह.

कौन किसको मार रहा है, क्यों मार रहा है, किसने शुरू किया. किसने किसको बंधक बनाया, भारत का हित किसके साथ होने में है, कुछ नहीं पता. न इन बातों से मतलब है. न इतिहास पता है, न भूगोल.

बस, धार्मिक आधार पर विरोध या समर्थन करना है. कुछ सेक्युलर बिना सोचे समझे गाजा-गाजा कर रहे हैं.

भारत में चला खिलाफत आंदोलन भी ऐसा ही ही. पहले विश्व युद्ध के बाद तुर्की के खलीफा की खिलाफत खत्म हो रही है. उनके साम्राज्य के यूरोपीय हिस्से आजाद हो रहे थे. उस दौर में सारे साम्राज्य ही कमजोर हो रहे थे.

तुर्की की जनता खलीफा के खिलाफ विद्रोह करके लोकतंत्र लाना चाह रही थी.

तुर्की के खलीफा सारी दुनिया के मुसलमानों के खलीफा हुआ करते थे. उनकी पदवी हलीफ ए मुस्लमीन होती थी. खैर वो दौर गया. तुर्की की सरकार ने 1924 में खिलाफत का अंत कर दिया.

आखिरी खलीफा, जिनका कोई महत्व नहीं था, 1944 में मर गए.

पर इसी बीच, तुष्टिकरण के लिए कुछ नेताओं ने भारत की बेचारी जनता को 1919 में खिलाफत बचाने के आंदोलन में कुदा दिया था. गांधी को लगा था कि ये करने से भारत का मुसलमान असहयोग आंदोलन में आ जाएगा. रणनीतिक फैसला था. पब्लिक आ भी गई.

लेकिन इसी सब के कारण आगे चलकर भारत का विभाजन हो गया. विभाजन की बुनियाद इन धार्मिक नीतियों में है.

छोटे राजनीतिक स्वार्थ में देश का बड़ा नुकसान हो गया.

राजनीति धार्मिक आधार पर होनी ही नहीं चाहिए.

बहरहाल गाजा और राफा के मामले में जो भारत की पॉलिसी है, वही मेरी पॉलिसी है. भारत ने जितना दुख जताया है, उतना दुख मुझको भी है. मैं भी चिंता जताता हूं, क्योंकि भारत सरकार ने चिंता जताई है.

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

Proven: the US is a banana republic, where prosecutions, judges & juries can be rigged. I’ve said this before & I’ll say this again - they’ll kill Trump or end his candidacy. At this point the US is in the same category as Russia & China - systematic targeting & elimination of opposition candidates.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

There is no greater indictment of judges than the fact that honest people are afraid to go into court, while criminals swagger out its revolving doors.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Throughout human history, there was one thing that protected one's tribe: The recognition that the tribe across the river was dangerous and would attack if it thought it could win the battle. This is history. Imagine that now in the West, our most fundamental virtue is to REJECT any survival reflex in seeking to protect ourselves against ideologies that exhibit perfect animus toward us. Rather, we celebrate those ideologies and seek to turn our societies into mirror images of countries where such ideologies rule. It is the ultimate civilizational collective mind parasite. It is the ultimate Greek tragedy. It is Collective Seppuku albeit void of any honor or dignity: "Take our children, take our women, destroy our culture, mock our societies, destroy our religions, but please please please don't call us bigoted. I'll show you the way to my children as long as you don't call me a bigot." The greatest tragedy that humanity has ever seen because it is fully self-inflicted due to parasitic thinking and suicidal empathy. [Save this tweet]

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

The illusion that you can take in large numbers of people from a fundamentally different culture, without jeopardizing your own culture — and everything that depends on it — should have been dispelled by many counterproductive social consequences in Europe, even aside from the fatal dangers of terrorists.

Most refugees in the Middle East can be helped in the Middle East, and many Americans would undoubtedly be willing to financially help Muslim countries like Jordan or Egypt to care for these refugees in societies more compatible with their beliefs and values.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Instead of trying to propagandize children to hug trees and recycle garbage, our schools would be put to better use teaching them how to analyze and test what is said by people who advocate tree-hugging, recycling, and innumerable other causes across the political spectrum.

The point is not to teach them correct conclusions but to teach them to be able to use their own minds to analyze the issues that will come up in the years ahead, which may have nothing to do with recycling or any of the other issues of our time.