zephyreks

Gotta do what you gotta do

Al Jazeera has been almost completely fair for commentary outside of the Middle East...

Fast and cheap? Is that what you call losing 60 thousand lives to eke out a salient on low ground?

How is Ukraine ever going to get air superiority? The West is basically trickle-feeding then equipment.

Russia's manufacturing PMI is at, what, 55.9 this month? In fact, the Russian Bank is literally worried about higher than expected inflation because their economic output has been too high.

And of course, by slowly crumbling you mean that one salient near Robotyne? The one that's known to be in a region of low ground surrounded by defences on high ground? That line?

Fact is, so long as India can keep buying Russian oil at whatever price OPEC dictates, Russia can keep financing the war. A lot of Russian industries can function entirely domestically (and thus don't really stress foreign exchange reserves) - the main limiting factor I'd expect is high-tech electronics coming from India and China. Russia's war economy has been remarkably resilient given the circumstances.

Wonderful, another witch hunt.

Scientists need funding and public support. That's the role of politicians.

NASA would never have made it to the moon without public support for the billions of dollars that went into NASA coffers. Kennedy deserves credit for finding funding and public support for NASA.

Reminder that India is still happily trading with Russia by buying their arms and buying their oil. In fact, India and Russia together found ways to circumvent the oil price cap and most Indians support Russia in Ukraine.

India is not an American ally. They're neutral and self-interested as they've always been.

The US already has one enemy with a billion people, why not two?

Why would India join any sphere? India's success historically has always been from a policy of neutrality and having the Himalayan mountains block any ideas against that neutrality.

If the goal is economic transformation, socialism works.