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Our passport is already ranked worse than North Korea's. We are fourth worst in the world, in the company of banana republics.

Yup, they were very happy to avail his services (and pay him) to engender themselves to the US Establishment. Criminals.

Has the J-35 order been officially confirmed? When are deliveries due?

I agree. But who cares? It's like doing really well in some video game. At the end of the day, what difference does it make in the real world? None. Everybody with even a single functioning brain cell knows Bajwa did it. An extractive minority was happy with the results. Every other sensible...

You think they didn't ensure (covert) control during the past two decades, especially after GHQ and various other 'secure' bases were attacked by militants?

Trophy hunting licenses are allowed only for old males incapable of reproducing. It funds conservation of the rest, and has been quite a success. (PS: I am against all forms of hunting for pleasure.)

Incredible!

Let's respond how our nat sec / intel establishment knows how: make sex tapes of the militants and release them. That should solve our problems!

Bilkul, sir. Mein tau fundamental truths ki baat karta hun. Not specific to any country or institution. This is the very first rule of power. Helpful in political philosophy, constitutional theory (separation of powers, institutional design, etc.) ;)

100000000%. Been teaching my students this fundamental truth. The class just concluded at LUMS. First of its kind :)

Drown the country, keep IK out. Drown the country, keep tools of coercion above the law. Drown the country, keep plots. The Establishment logic is legendary.

This radar looks great, and I'm always happy to see tangible increases in our (actual) defense capabilities. Perhaps he's laughing because Pakistan itself has become a quasi-failed state. India has serious issues, but the government is flush with cash and no single institution can hamstring the...

Exactly. MBS knew that this is his ticket to longevity after all the palace intrigue that it took to put him where he needed to be. Young people essentially want to party and want more freedoms more often than not. He delivered. Now he's wildly popular at home, at least in the most relevant...

I'm so glad people (like you) get it. So many people here (arm chair strategists) have no clue how deterrence should work, just like our generals.

Actually, there is pretty open criticism against military adventurism and leadership in the West --- do you just believe what generals/uncles say in WhatsApp chats? LOL. Exactly! Western militaries, unlike in Pakistan, are not wholly above / outside of the law. They aren't engineering...

Everything makes sense. The part you didn't get meant to ask: can't just Israel build something like that itself, given its advanced defense production/innovation industry locally?

It's nice when we can finally agree on something :) The issue is about both deterrence and governance. Better governance at home, deterring the backers of terrorist movements abroad. One of the biggest failures in recent decades has been the ISI's inability to meaningfully raise the cost for...

What advantages does it offer that the Namer doesn't... or that Israel's innovative domestic defense industry can't build/integrate? Neat piece of kit, btw.

And I expected substantially more sophistication from you. Azad Kashmir has never been under any sort of de facto occupation, and there has been no proxy war there. Nothing has changed. IOK, on the other hand, is important to us for several reasons, including our water security (if we take...

And we have been even more generous and given away IOK to India on a silver platter. Hollow statements, ISPR jingles, and street renaming constituted the entirety of our response.