India holds all the cards in the Indo-Pacific

[Cobra Arbok]

I think you should simply post the articles for the interested ones to read and use their brains. If choosing to be live that 'India is not a regional power' gives them a mental satisfaction, you should actually encourage that.

If there was a sort of filter option that could limit readers to those actually interested in intellectual discussion, I would do that. Unfortunately, no such option exists. That is one of the drawbacks to internet forums such as this one I suppose, anyone can post.

The above are not facts but opinion pieces by authors who are not reputable analysts. In order to confirm your original assertions of india being a powerful nation, analysts from the world's best and most powerful think tanks like the CATO institute, Royal Institute for International Affairs or the Tavistick Institute would need to confirm it.

Yet I am pretty sure you take people like Andrew Korybko seriously.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

The fact that all of the world's major powers want India to fall in their "camps" should be proof enough of India's importance. I have also posted some non-Indian articles saying the same thing(BTW, this was published in the South China Morning Post). I will post them below for your convenience. But talking to you is like talking to a brick wall, you aren't actually interested in facts and evidence, you are only interested in confirming you ignorant, preconceived notions

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/russ...shed-in-global-politics.629326/#post-11662324

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/russia-india-china-share-a-room-with-a-view.629324/#post-11662321

Yes I agree India is a regional power...

vis-a-vis... her neighbors like Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives, B'desh, Sri Lanka and that's about it...the buck stops here.

 

[war&peace]

India is holding all the cards in a place that has resulted in a severe diplomatic constipation for her. Modi seeked the help of president Trump to bring out those cards but then rest of India refused the helping hand

How much koolaid are you on? Don't other Indians here find this guy's comments as cringe?

No human can drink the koolaid they drink. It can cure 33 millions diseases including cancer, diabetis, HIV etc

 

[Cobra Arbok]

Yes I agree India is a regional power...

vis-a-vis... her neighbors like Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives, B'desh, Sri Lanka and that's about it...the buck stops here.

I am not talking about India being a power relative to any neighbors. I am talking about India being a power due to its strategic position and blue-water navy that gives it a lot of influence and power projection over the Indo-Pacific region as a whole.

Simply bullying smaller countries does not make one a major power. But following you logic, does Pakistan even count as a regional power? Because it has virtually no influence in its neighbors(Afghanistan and Iran) and cannot even control anti-Pak groups from operating freely in Afghanistan. The Taliban doesn't seem to care about groups such as the TTP and BLA either. So Pakistan saying India does not have any relevance in world politics is the perfect example of pot calling the kettle black

 

[N.Siddiqui]

It can cure 33 millions diseases

Wow....that's equal to the number of Bhagwans they have.

Looking at the millions of Gods they have they are a regional power but only in hearsay and fictitious claims.

 

[war&peace]

Wow....that's equal to the number of Bhagwans they have.

Looking at the millions of Gods they have they are a regional power but only in hearsay and fictitious claims.

I think that number is 330 million

 

[N.Siddiqui]

I am not talking about India being a power relative to any neighbors. I am talking about India being a power due to its strategic position and blue-water navy that gives it a lot of influence and power projection over the Indo-Pacific region as a whole.

Blue water Navy...Yes!! does that makes it a regional power.???

Army and Airforce...NO!!!

https://indianexpress.com/article/i...ase-better-than-ours-army-vice-chief-4766949/

I think that number is 330 million

Oops !! you are right it was 33 crore...maybe India counts them too in their regional power greed.

 

[war&peace]

I am not talking about India being a power relative to any neighbors. I am talking about India being a power due to its strategic position and blue-water navy that gives it a lot of influence and power projection over the Indo-Pacific region as a whole.

Mate, you're being too humble...

Yesterday my experimental radio telescope accidentally locked on some signals from another universe ..one of the universes in the multiverse, and my Swedish friend and cryptographer helped in decoding parts of it. The intelligent life in that universe is also scared of India and its mighty naval power. They feared none except India in the entire hyperverse.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

I am not talking about India being a power relative to any neighbors. I am talking about India being a power due to its strategic position and blue-water navy that gives it a lot of influence and power projection over the Indo-Pacific region as a whole.

Yes India has this strategic position, Pakistan isn't any less strategically placed, slightly more actually.

 

[Cobra Arbok]

Mate, you're being too humble...

Yesterday my experimental radio telescope accidentally locked on some signals from another universe ..one of the universes in the multiverse, and my Swedish friend and cryptographer helped in decoding parts of it. The intelligent life in that universe is also scared of India and its mighty naval power. They feared none except India in the entire hyperverse.

Interesting. Maybe I will make a thread about that next.

 

[fallstuff]

Interesting assertion considering the events of past Feb 27, 2019, why would a major power fail to make any credible gain on that day not to mention the loss of a fighter aircraft on a retaliatory action by Pakistan.

Then there are the issues of Maoists running wild in at least 5 Indian provinces where cops don't even go out at night in Maoists controlled areas. The issue of Kashmir remains unresolved and the insurgency in the entire NE.

No other major power has so many issues like India has, heck no other country in the world has so many issues like India.

 

[Cobra Arbok]

Yes India has this strategic position, Pakistan isn't any less strategically placed, slightly more actually.

Not on the Indo Pacific. Pakistan does not have the centralized location on the Indo-Pacific that India has, nor does it control both of the region's major chokepoints. Pakistan's strategic value is limited to the Afghanistan conflict, and that will end eventually.

But I do not want this thread to turn into an Indo-Pak debate, even though some trolls want to make it one.

 

[Microsoft]

Not on the Indo Pacific. Pakistan does not have the centralized location on the Indo-Pacific that India has, nor does it control both of the region's major chokepoints. Pakistan's strategic value is limited to the Afghanistan conflict, and that will end eventually.

But I do not want this thread to turn into an Indo-Pak debate, even though some trolls want to make it one.

Have you looked at a map?

 

[war&peace]

Interesting. Maybe I will make a thread about that next.

Go ahead and I'm sure 99% of sanghis will believe it as 100% truth.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Simply bullying smaller countries does not make one a major power. But following you logic, does Pakistan even count as a regional power? Because it has virtually no influence in its neighbors(Afghanistan and Iran) and cannot even control anti-Pak groups from operating freely in Afghanistan. The Taliban doesn't seem to care about groups such as the TTP and BLA either. So Pakistan saying India does not have any relevance in world politics is the perfect example of pot calling the kettle black

Actually India being paranoid about Pakistan makes it a bigger power, Pakistan maybe not that powerful, has to punch above its weight.

And since Pakistan faces a constant threat from India has to get some parity with India, so if you look at the population difference it is about 1: 6.5, if you look into the airforce and army stats of the two countries the ratio narrows down to 1:2.5, Pakistan vs India. Or in some cases 1:3 in some numbers...

Pakistan makes up for the low numbers and less quantity with being more lean and mean, more thrifty in military splurges, and through quality...