Raphael
SENIOR MEMBER
- Joined
- Mar 1, 2012
- Messages
- 3,287
- Reaction score
- 5
- Country
- Location
Then the thread title should reflect the same
Who cares, it's ultimately a stylistic choice. The thread about India's collapsing economy uses the title of an early article on the plunging rupee.
Nepal, in a way, is military protectorate of India. Indian Army maintains seven Gorkha regiments consisting of troops recruited mostly from Nepal. So Nepal doesn't have the independence to have defence relations with other countries.
No it's not, and this is a truly misinformed and delusional worldview. Protectorates more or less don't exist anymore, they were a humiliating imperialist construct in which de facto sovereignty is revoked.
If Nepal were really a military protectorate:
1. India would have troops stationed in the country.
2. Nepal would not be permitted to tilt closer to China than India, as stands the status quo.
3. Most damning of all, India would likely have annexed the country decades ago, a la Sikkim.
The fact that India recruits for Gorkha regiments may speak of the country's enduring poverty, that desperate youths have to prostitute themselves out as mercenaries and fight under a foreign flag, but says nothing of the sovereignty of their homeland.