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[The Backchannel @The_Backchannel]

The Foreign Minister says they have no hesitation about giving their lives. He means the people's lives. Not his own.

There might be a soft coup by IRGC against the theocracy, but the regime will survive.

Here are the signs, and what comes next. A full update. 🧵⬇️
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[Clash Report @clashreport]

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

We have no hesitation about giving our lives.

[The Backchannel @The_Backchannel]

Attracting Indian talent to not just support the national rejuvenation but also to thrive individually.

As @pranaykotas brilliantly summed it - "Swades, sans sacrifice"

[The Seeker @TheSeeker268]

India just launched a flagship scheme to recruit top Indian-origin researchers living abroad and bring them back to India to conduct high impact, cutting-edge research. The scheme offers research grants, relocation support, and access to advanced research infrastructure.

📅 Last Date: July 15, 2026

[The Backchannel @The_Backchannel]

Something I've been arguing for a long time.

China's 1000 talents program propelled its techno-security state to the same league as the United States.

While this is a welcome initiative, it remains unmatched in scale and scope to our northern neighbour.

[The Seeker @TheSeeker268]

India just launched a flagship scheme to recruit top Indian-origin researchers living abroad and bring them back to India to conduct high impact, cutting-edge research. The scheme offers research grants, relocation support, and access to advanced research infrastructure.

📅 Last Date: July 15, 2026

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

Difficult to believe that the finals are not in Ahmedabad.

[Soutik Biswas @soutikBBC]

‘India is a republic of the uncles, by the uncles, for the uncles’. https://t.co/9cTPERguiR

[Clive Ward @CliveWardauthor]

I could never really be friends with or spend any personal time with someone who doesn't immediately know the answer to this question. Sorry, but there it is. Not negotiable.

[Kushan Mitra @kushanmitra]

That will create a low pressure zone bringing in moisture-laden winds from south. Now if there only a name for this phenomenon!

[The Backchannel @The_Backchannel]

Indian embassy in China mastering @CGTNOfficial style brand building

[India in China @EOIBeijing]

Can a power plant create more fuel than it consumes? Sounds impossible, right? Well, India just did that.

India’s 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has achieved first criticality after decades of work. With this, India became the 2nd country with a commercially operating fast breeder reactor.

@MEAIndia

@PIB_India

@IndianDiplomacy

[The Backchannel @The_Backchannel]

Ragebait.

[Derek J. Grossman @DerekJGrossman]

Wasn’t India.

[The Backchannel @The_Backchannel]

Co-prosperity is coming 🤣

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Japan will deploy about 1,000 combat troops to the Philippines for the 2026 Balikatan exercises, the first such deployment there since 1945. - PNA

[The Backchannel @The_Backchannel]

Might have to draw upon my strategic reserves.

[Beats in Brief 🗞️ @beatsinbrief]

🚨 India may face possible beer shortages as Iran war disrupts glass bottle & can supply

Brewers warn of summer crunch, seek ~12–15% price hike. (Reuters)

[The Backchannel @The_Backchannel]

2026 so far:

🇻🇪 US military kidnaps a sitting president (Maduro, Jan 3)

☢️ Last US-Russia nuclear arms treaty expires with no replacement (Feb 5)

🇮🇷 US & Israel launch airstrikes on Iran, killing Supreme Leader Khamenei (Feb 28)

🇦🇫🇵🇰 Afghanistan & Pakistan also at war simultaneously

🇨🇩 Rwanda effectively annexes eastern Congo through rebel proxies

🇺🇦 Ukraine war grinds into year 4 with no end in sight

🇸🇩 Sudan's civil war quietly becomes one of history's worst humanitarian disasters

🌍 USAID gutted — 22M+ lives at risk by 2030 per estimates

86 days in.

[The Backchannel @The_Backchannel]

A Turkish tanker named ALTURA, possibly loaded with Russian crude oil, was attacked with Kamikaze drones in the Black Sea, 15 miles off the Istanbul Strait.

[The Backchannel @The_Backchannel]

The #1 foreign policy decision in American history was a cheque.
Not a missile.
Not a tariff.
Not a threat.

A cheque — sent to rubble — that rebuilt the world.
America used to know this. Somewhere, it forgot.

Follow @The_Backchannel for more context the headlines miss. 🔗

[The Backchannel @The_Backchannel]

As the US wages war on Iran & dismantles every institution it created — History already has a verdict

Historians at @CFR_org ranked the 10 greatest foreign policy decisions America ever made

Every. Single. One. Is the opposite of what's happening right now

A Thread 🧵👇

[The Backchannel @The_Backchannel]

#1: The Marshall Plan

1948.

Europe was rubble. The 1947 harvest was the worst since the 19th century. Communist parties were gaining ground.

The US had already won the war. It could have gone home.

Instead: $13 billion. 16 countries. Including former enemies.

The logic? Win the peace, or the war meant nothing.

The greatest foreign policy decision in American history wasn't a weapon. It was a cheque.