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UN Greeted with No-Fly Zone Ukraine Rallies
On March 1st, 2022, Pro-Ukraine activists rallied outside of the UN in NY to call for NATO to create a No-Fly Zone over Ukraine. The rally was called “The No-Fly Zone over Ukraine” rally. As CBS News reports “Dozens of people crowded the area…..”
The nature of such a sparsely populated rally is generally dubious from the start, though not necessarily. However, when a corporate media outlet is painting a rosy picture on dozens of people attending your rally to call on NATO to risk nuclear war to save Ukraine from Russian jets, one would be remiss not to reserve a measure of skepticism regarding the nature of the activists themselves. Not that I’m judging them if they are (insert mysterious government alphabet here). States gonna do what states gonna do, as the saying goes.
I just want to set the real context of the nature of the plea that was made by 20 some-ish people in New York that might bring about armed conflict between countries with nuclear weapons. I just want to bring that context to bear before we celebrate twenty some-ish people showing up on a reasonably decent day in New York City outside the UN headquarters building to attempt to influence NATO to send jets to confront Russian jets so we can protect Ukraine.
Whatever your feeling about Ukraine, be it for Russia, for Ukraine, or whoever, I can assure you that no-fly zones over Ukraine would most likely be a horrible outcome for all parties involved.
A story like this is a little feeder, a tester, to see what kind of response they get from the idea of a no-fly zone from the peoples, wrapped behind the safety of it not being ‘experts’ or journalists starting off with this idea of a no-fly zone, it is actually a grassroots movement, a peoples’ movement in support of sovereign nationhood and whatnots.
There are many ways to support Ukraine, but risking armed conflict with a nuclear power is not one of them. Perhaps Poland can assist by declaring war on Belarus, and see if Russia is then willing to risk conflict with a nuclear power by going after a member of NATO without nuclear weapons.
That is a whole lot of risks in and of itself, but it would STILL be less riskier than declaring a No-Fly Zone over Ukraine. If you support Ukraine, their next move, sadly, is to make it as brutal as they can while they stave off the inevitable, though the new exiles should already be forming up, being trained, many to go back and constitute the initial ongoing resistance to Russian presence.
It’s a grim future, though, and offers, perhaps, a decade or more of grinding down lives in a substandard, unstable world where no Ukrainian would long want to stay anyway. I suspect Russia will attempt to move Russians in where Ukrainians move out. We might then be witnessing the elimination of a whole people should their diaspora not hold together under common values and customs that can be lived out wherever they are.
The best we can hope for is Russia realizes, after eventually taking Kiev (and they soon most likely will), that the going is too costly, so they’ll accept a reduced Ukraine that still holds its autonomy even as it loses more territory. Outside of that, there is little chance any nuclear power will directly confront Russian troops. Poland is the strongest contender to being able to intervene militarily, but only against Belarus. Russia would then have to decide whether to escalate by attacking a NATO nation or not. Even if Poland is the best option, it’s not a very good one. All we can do is supply, arm, take care of the family members of the fighters, if we want to help Ukraine.
If we want to help Russia, well, we would simply stay out Russia’s well, but, geopolitically, America can ill afford to do so. Now that China is coming forward to offer to mitigate talks between Russia and Ukraine, America might do well to increase her supplying of Ukrainians to assure, if there is a deal, Ukraine remains on the table for the West.
Ukraine is the gateway between the Empires of the East and the Empires of the West. No hegemonic power can long hold sway in this part of the world if Ukraine is in the hands of their enemies. It is the launching pad in either direction due to where it lies, in the East European Plain.
Unfortunately, this makes the Ukrainians political footballs for eastern and western powers, from America to Russia, China to Germany, Ukraine is the spoils of other nations more than she is her own.
Let’s keep a watch on this whole no-fly zone rally and hope, for everyone’s sake, it doesn’t grow legs.
Rally outside United Nations calls on NATO to impose no-fly zone over Ukraine
From www.cbsnews.com
2022-03-01 17:44:00
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NEW YORK — As the conflict in Ukraine reaches its sixth day, many across the world are condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin, including a group of protesters who took to the streets Tuesday on Manhattan’s East Side.
The rally, called “The No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine,” kicked off at around 10 a.m. across the street from the United Nations. Dozens of people crowded the area, calling on NATO to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine so Russia cannot perform airstrikes.
The group joined a growing number of rallies across the world condemning Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine. Cars and trucks could be heard honking for blocks, showing support for the cause.
“It’s extremely difficult to support Ukraine, because of Russia’s threats. So I guess just trying to show as an international community that we support them and we’re hoping for their safety,” one demonstrator told CBS2’s Elijah Westbrook.
Many of the protesters Westbrook spoke with said they want the…
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Black Families Turning to Homeschooling Because Racism?
Are black families choosing homeschooling because schools are racist? That’s what a NY Times article suggests. The article pulls an anecdotal story of one family whose son learned at a white-dominated school that slaves were just receiving “on-the-job-training.”
I must say, if your school has any literature that words slavery in that manner, ALL parents should be at the next school board meeting demanding that racist agit prop be removed from school. If this story is indeed true (and I am operating under the assumption that it is), it doesn’t match what I learned about slavery in school, and I went to school back in the 1970s and 80s.
I grew up when the tv mini-series was on everyone’s mind. I watched the whole series with my family. I learned early on of the racist, genocidal history of America. I didn’t learn that I was responsible for it or that I should be treated like a sinner because of the actions others who had the same melatonin levels as me did evil things.
I may have learned about George Washington’s apple tree in elementary school. By high school, I learned he had slaves. I learned there was no apple tree. I didn’t learn that I was the creator of evil and that everyone that looked like me, looks like me, are the creators of evil too. I didn’t need to learn that lie to see the mixed results of the American experiment.
Hopefully, the article is merely anecdotal. I’d love to believe it was outright false. If it is not, let us hope people suffered consequences for allowing such evil to get into the minds of our children using taxpayer dollars to do so. It would be like telling children that their parents literally invented slavery and racism and now the new society is going to fix what these evil parents did to make everything so hateful and racist and bigoted. What kind of emotional trauma would that create in a forming mind?
I suspect there are many black families that are taking their kids out of school for far more reasons than the school is racist. I suspect a lot of kids in nearly-all-black schools are getting taken out of the system as well, as more and more Americans, of many races, come to see how damaged our current education truly is.
More than teaching children to hate each other, as our schools are currently doing, they are also teaching kids to pass standardized tests. They are cramming them with memory lists to pass tests that will create little lasting habits of action which these kids will find anywhere remotely useful in life.
They prepare them for a world by telling them everything that came before it is evil, so we will start with a clean slate, judging people based on their race, sexual preference, and gender alone (where race and gender become synonymous with ideology, so that ‘black’ is a politics plus black biology, while ‘white’ is a politics that overrides biology).
Perhaps many black families find such un-American actions as stigmatizing people based on their beliefs, gender, sexual preference, and race something they wish to protect their children from. Perhaps many families, of many races, are beginning to understand how important it is for all of us to be one American race, defined not by our DNA but by our commitment to live out the standards set out in the Bill of Rights with our neighbors.
We seek to live in a land where we don’t want, don’t need your approval, but demand your respect when we exchange value with one another. This is the land of the free, where tolerance still means never forcing anyone to approve of anyone or anything but treating everyone like their favorite cousin when they exchange value with them in shared American space, space not defined by free association fellowships but by public ones. I suspect that hope is shared by many, across many other divides.
It is a world that the authors of such stories wish to prevent us from having, a world where America keeps progressing towards her Bill of Rights potential, a potential that has already undone slavery and brought the women the vote, enabled gay and lesbian couples to have the same marriage rights as heterosexual couples and is still challenging our assumptions of what it means to live in a land whose ultimate authority is rested in the state’s record on respecting each individual’s bills of rights, to treat everyone with respect as if they matter as much as you, even if you ‘know’ they clearly don’t.
Let us hope the families that do encounter such actual racism in our schools finds a truth out there that leads them to a shared hope in an America with Bill of Rights protections for all, in all our public spaces. Continuing down this path of factional division will only help America’s enemies, who hate the black American as much as they hate the Asian American as much as they hate the White American, etc, etc, etc.
The Chinese State loves the subterfuge, the self-hate, the doubt, the devastation on American morale that the DNC Left is pressing on us through its schools, its media, its control of the means of social and cultural production. Don’t become a useful political football in the DNC charade, black America. Stay with the Bill of Rights people. Divided we fall. Together we stand.
For Black Parents Resisting White-Washed History, Homeschooling Is an Increasingly Popular Option
From news.yahoo.com
2022-02-28 17:30:03
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Brian and Andrea Thomas help their two youngest children with their homeschooling lesson at their home in Richardson, Tx. on Feb. 23, 2022. Credit – Ilana Panich-Linsman for TIME
For Shari Rohan, it was a social-studies lesson that described enslaved people receiving “on-the-job training.” For Zanetta Lamar, it was the fact that her son was the only Black student in his grade. For Andrea Thomas, it was realizing just how little she had learned about Black history while attending both public and private schools.
“I did not want my children to have that same experience,” says Thomas, who, along with Rohan and Lamar, is now homeschooling her children, becoming part of a movement that once was seen as the domain of white, conservative families. “I wanted them to have a deeper understanding of history and the flaws within our history.”
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Homeschooling Has Become More Popular Among Black Families
From time.com
2022-02-28 17:30:00
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For Shari Rohan, it was a social-studies lesson that described enslaved people receiving “on-the-job training.” For Zanetta Lamar, it was the fact that her son was the only Black student in his grade. For Andrea Thomas, it was realizing just how little she had learned about Black history while attending both public and private schools.
“I did not want my children to have that same experience,” says Thomas, who, along with Rohan and Lamar, is now homeschooling her children, becoming part of a movement that once was seen as the domain of white, conservative families. “I wanted them to have a deeper understanding of history and the flaws within our history.”
Homeschooling increased nationwide after the pandemic disrupted in-person learning; among households with school-age children, the percentage who reported homeschooling them rose from…
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Far Left Muscle Rejects Biden’s Union
The muscle wing of the DNC, the faction that brings the kids whose milkshakes bring all the fires to business owners in urban centers run by local politicians even more beholden to this muscle than the DNC is, has announced through its token ‘appease the muscle’ spokesmodel, Rashida Tlaib (AOC was doing a cooking with goldleaf sesh on the insta at the time), that the muscle is not happy with Biden’s limp-lefted plans.
Dude LITERALLY led a chant to “FUND THE POLICE” after all the muscle did to scare the universe into thinking white devils were LITERALLY about to kill everyone in their sleep that didn’t have a Confederate Flag tattooed to the insides of each eyelids.
“Thankfully”, a few black business owners lost their business to the fires, and one lost his life, to assure that the white devil would not burn their businesses down and kill…..wait a second!
The real read on this is simple. Rashida and AOC and the other muscle faction foils are there to feign horror that the establishment is engaging in gambling RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES! But, to the muscle faction, if you ever read us (and we know you do, and we love it), let me just say, kids, you being played.
You should really read up on the Brown Shirts and how that ended for them. That’s you, that’s how the DNC views you, muscle to be disposed with after they want to go ‘legit.’ No more fires, no more you.
The RNC has its own muscle faction spokesmodels feigning shock that the establishment is gambling RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES! I won’t name names but Marjorie Taylor Greene randomly and whatnots. Not the RNC nor the DNC will ever truly appease the muscle in their groups, and, perhaps, we are all better off for that. But, at least in the case of the DNC, what they DO WISH to accomplish still continues to be the ongoing existential threat to an American Constitutionally-Limited Republic with our Bill of Rights standards of Individual Liberty as the cornerstone of the legitimization of government power in these lands as they haven been since their inception.
Rashida Tlaib Challenges Biden on Progressive Agenda in SOTU Response
From www.newsweek.com
2022-03-02 05:13:32
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Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has challenged President Joe Biden in a progressive response to his State of the Union address.
While much of Tlaib’s Tuesday night speech on behalf of the Working Families Party took aim at Republicans, the “Squad” member also challenged Biden to take action on progressive campaign promises while highlighting divisions between progressives and centrists in the Democratic Party.
Tlaib touted progressives and praised parts of Biden’s agenda before singling out “corporate-backed Democratic obstructionists,” whom she blamed for stalling the president’s Build Back Better plan.
“No one fought harder for President Biden’s agenda than progressives,” Tlaib said. “We rallied…
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Nuke-Hosting Japan Scares China
Chairman Xi is a bit ill at ease after leading Japanese luminaries, including former PM Shinzo Abe, have called for Japan to host US nuclear weapons as a deterrent in light of the Ukraine invasion.
Fumio Kishida, the current Prime Minister of Japan, quickly shot down the idea, but yet the talk continues in Japanese circles. Meanwhile, the Chinese chose not to so easily dismiss the call by Abe and others, saying, through their mouthpiece Wang Wenbin, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman.
He stated, “Japanese politicians have frequently spread fallacies related to Taiwan and even blatantly made false remarks that violate the nation’s three non-nuclear principles.
“We strongly ask Japan to deeply reflect on its history”, Wang added, and warned Tokyo to “be cautious in words and deeds on the Taiwan issue to stop provoking trouble”.
This seems like a great move to assure the Japanese people will not take this personally and actually start to support the hosting of nuclear weapons on their shores.
China rattled by calls for Japan to host US nuclear weapons | Japan
From www.theguardian.com
2022-03-01 06:02:00
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China has reacted angrily to calls by Japan’s influential former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, for Tokyo to consider hosting US nuclear weapons in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising concern over Chinese aggression towards Taiwan.
….Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, quickly rejected Abe’s call for a debate on the nuclear-sharing option. “It is unacceptable given our country’s stance of maintaining the three non-nuclear principles,” Kishida, who represents a constituency in Hiroshima, told MPs this week.
Wang Wenbin, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, told reporters in Beijing: “Japanese politicians have frequently spread fallacies related to Taiwan and even blatantly made false remarks that violate the nation’s three non-nuclear principles.
“We strongly ask Japan to deeply reflect on its history”, Wang added, and warned Tokyo to “be cautious in words and deeds on the Taiwan issue to stop provoking trouble”.
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Silicon War Powers?
With Silicon Valley and other big tech companies seeming to mostly be choosing Ukraine over Russia in their recently-started war, nation-states of the world are learning lessons that might not be the kind Silicon Valley would like them to learn.
Tech is making it known that neutrality in war is not something nation states can count on tech for sustaining. In the Ukraine War, Silicon Valley is finding itself choosing to block this agent but not that agent, is choosing to take this government on as a client but not this government.
All of the nation-states of the world are paying close attention to what tech can do, in general, to affect the outcome of war, but also, they are paying close attention to the type of power tech can have in impeding your nation-states war efforts should you find yourself outside the club.
These actions by tech, or Silicon Valley in large part, but hardly exclusively, are sending signals to nation states that will continue to accelerate the process of the nationalization of social media and the internet in general. The cost for relying on obs (one big system) solutions is a potential loss of sovereignty as a nation-state altogether should the enemy that is invading you is in with the Silicon Valley crowd.
Tech Companies Help Defend Ukraine Against Cyberattacks
From www.nytimes.com
2022-03-01 00:50:58
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WASHINGTON — Last Wednesday, a few hours before Russian tanks began rolling into Ukraine, alarms went off inside Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center, warning of a never-before-seen piece of “wiper” malware that appeared aimed at the country’s government ministries and financial institutions.
Within three hours, Microsoft threw itself into the middle of a ground war in Europe — from 5,500 miles away. The threat center, north of Seattle, had been on high alert, and it quickly picked apart the malware, named it “FoxBlade” and notified Ukraine’s top cyberdefense authority. Within three hours, Microsoft’s virus detection systems had been updated to block the code, which erases — “wipes” — data on computers in a network.
Then Tom Burt, the senior Microsoft executive who oversees the company’s effort to counter major cyberattacks, contacted Anne Neuberger, the White House’s deputy national security adviser for cyber- and emerging technologies. Ms….
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Spinning Electrons Could Power Your Future Computer
Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt have made a breakthrough discovery identifying a rare earth material that could be an ideal candidate to become a spinning electron information processing center. The processor of the future could be powered by a rare earth material whose spinning electrons would process data at exponentially faster times than conventional CPU’s can accomplish.
The technology is relatively new in development, still mostly in the theory rather than application stage of development, but these latest results break down some key barriers, making this technology much more potentially applicable within a few years.
Innovative crystals for future computer electronics — ScienceDaily
From www.sciencedaily.com
2022-02-28 18:12:06
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While modern computers are already very fast, they also consume vast amounts of electricity. For some years now a new technology has been much talked about, which although it is still in its infancy could one day revolutionise computer technology — spintronics. The word is a portmanteau meaning “spin” and “electronics,” because with these components electrons no longer flow through computer chips, but the spin of the electrons serves as the information carrier. A team of researchers with staff from Goethe University Frankfurt has now identified materials that have surprisingly fast properties for spintronics. The results have been published in the specialist magazine “Nature Materials.”
….The problem in the development of spintronic materials is that perfectly designed crystals are required for such components as the smallest discrepancies immediately have a negative impact on the overall magnetic order in the material. This is where the expertise in Frankfurt came into play. “The rare earths melt at about 1000 degrees Celsius, but the rhodium that is also needed for the crystal does not melt until about 2000 degrees Celsius,” says Krellner. “This is why customary crystallisation methods do not function here.”
Instead the scientists used hot indium as a solvent. The rare earths, as well as the rhodium and silicon that are required, dissolve in this at about 1500 degrees Celsius. The graphite crucible was kept at this temperature for about a week and then gently cooled. As a result the desired crystals grew in the form of thin disks with an edge length of two to three millimetres. These were then studied by the team with the aid of X-rays produced on the Berlin synchrotron BESSY II and on the Swiss Light Source of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland.
“The most important finding is that in the crystals which we have grown the rare-earth atoms react magnetically with one another very quickly and that the strength of these reactions can be specifically adjusted through the choice of atoms,” says Krellner. This opens up the path for further optimisation — ultimately spintronics is still purely fundamental research and years away from the production of commercial components.
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Israel Achieves Zero Emission Green Ammonia Production
The Israeli company named GenCell recently released findings that show the company was able to produce green ammonia from water using a process that requires significantly lower temperatures and pressures than current methods. This method also produces no carbon emissions, making it a zero emission process.
Green Ammonia is used primarily for agriculture, but is also being developed a viable option to fossil fuel. It is also storable, and could then be converted as needed for fertilizer or power. The breakthrough is not ready for commercial production. If the methodology proves to be cost efficient, as early results suggest it would be, then green ammonia could become far more than fertilizer in the years to come.
Israeli GenCell scientific breakthrough zero emission green ammonia – The Jerusalem Post
From www.jpost.com
2022-03-01 18:51:00
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Israeli company GenCell Energy has announced they’ve achieved a major scientific breakthrough that enables the production of green ammonia directly from water at a very low temperature and pressure in comparison to the traditional ammonia production processes typically carried out around the world today.
Following their evaluation of GenCell’s scientific breakthrough, Japanese technology provider TDK Corporation announced they plan to continue investing in and developing GenCell’s innovative zero-emission green ammonia synthesis project towards its next milestone.
GenCell, based in Petah Tikva, is the leading provider of hydrogen and ammonia to power solutions.
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China Threatens US Over Taiwan Delegation
China has warned the United States of America that the recent delegation sent to Taiwan is a futile effort, that America’s efforts to support Taiwan are doomed to fail because “the Chinese people defend their sovereignty,” meaning Taiwan.
The shout came from a press conference held by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Wang Wenbin. The shout was met with sarcastic clapping and condescending gestures.
‘The Chinese people defend their sovereignty,’ Beijing slams US for sending delegation to Taiwan – South China Morning Post
From www.scmp.com
2022-03-02 02:01:50
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Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Wang Wenbin has urged the United States to stop all forms of official exchanges with Taiwan. Speaking at a press conference on March 1, 2022, Wang said any attempts of the US side to show support to Taiwan are doomed to fail. His remarks followed the arrival of a group of former top American military and security officials who flew to Taiwan on a US government plane earlier the same day. The US group is expected to meet the self-ruled island’s President Tsai Ing-wen, Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng and other senior officials to exchange views on cross-strait, military and security issues. Beijing views Taiwan as a renegade province that must ultimately be brought under its own control, by force if necessary.
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Navy Looks to Go Unmanned in a Big Way
The United States Navy is well in the process of developing new platforms that are unmanned, autonomous. Now, the Navy has announced plans to develop an autonomous code standard that will enable more rapid development of autonomous platforms, but also help retrofit legacy platforms with autonomous features.
The code is to be called Unmanned Maritime Autonomous Architecture, UMAA. It is being developed by the Navy’s Rapid Autonomy Integration Lab.
Navy Setting Stage for Influx Of Autonomous Systems
From www.nationaldefensemagazine.org
2022-03-02 00:53:35
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The Navy — which is pursuing an ambitious unmanned systems plan through a mixture of air, surface and underwater platforms — is working to test and mature those autonomy systems through multiple programs.
These include efforts such as new autonomy standards as well as the standing up of its Rapid Autonomy Integration Lab, said Capt. Pete Small, program manager for unmanned maritime systems at Naval Sea Systems Command.
Updating legacy platforms with new autonomy software codes can be an arduous process, he said during a briefing at the Surface Navy Association’s annual conference. To combat that, the Navy is developing an autonomy standard for code development called the unmanned maritime autonomy architecture, or UMAA.
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India’s Russian Tanks Mean Ukraine is Tough Topic
Once, India depended on force power toys from the United States and her western allies. Now, India relies more on Russian arms than American arms, even as India continues to slowly develop its own internal defense technology. For now, India faces real military threats from China and Pakistan, and her reliance on Russia for arms is causing her to take a two-step when it comes to how to address the Ukraine War.
So far, India has not strongly supported or condemned anyone, but some India YouTube news channels that regularly walk lock step with the current government have been decidedly pro Russian, and that might be explained by their dependence on Russia for military power.
Explained: How dependent is India on Russia’s weapons?
From indianexpress.com
2022-03-02 03:49:50
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India was reliant, almost solely on the British, and other Western nations for its arms imports immediately after Independence. But this dependence weaned, and by the 1970s India was importing several weapons systems from the USSR, making it country’s largest defence importer for decades when it came to both basic and sophisticated weapons systems. In fact, it has provided some of the most sensitive and important weapons platforms that India has required from time to time including nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers, tanks, guns, fighter jets, and missiles.
According to several people, the defence trade, which remains significant, is one of the important causes why India has not taken a critical stand openly against Russia. However, India-Russian ties cannot be viewed only from that perspective.
The legacy of buying weapons from Russia has made India somewhat dependent on it, and even though India has tried to expand the base of countries from which it buys new military systems, Russian-origin weapons still have the lion’s share. According to one estimate, the share of Russian-origin weapons and platforms across Indian armed forces is as…
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