It's all geopolitics

It's all geopolitics!

Absolutely ridiculous that a country where 75% live in abject poverty are busy
building themselves weapons to attack a neigboring country. India is a completely
corrupt, dysfunctional "democrazy" where volatile corrupt politicians can at any
time send off a missile to divert public attention, whip up nationalistic fervor just to
win votes.
I supposed we could thank western media like the Economist which continually
drum up China's "military rise" to egg India on in taking action. It doesn't take
much to egg the Indians into anything. They are volatile and gullible. I'm sure the
defense minister and his cronies in the military received plenty of kickbacks from
whomever sold them their nuclear arsenal. Only pompous baffoons like the British
would want to invade a poverty stricken, over populated country with little to no
natural resources like India. To say that they need these weapons for self-defense
is a joke. What do they need these weapons for other than to attack and invade
their neighbors? This will just push all of India's neighbors closer to China.
Some of us cheer India for having nuclear weapon capable of striking China but
did not realize that we can be unwillingly dragged into a global arm race. A few
years back, China has developed laser technology capable of shooting down
satellite in high orbit. It is probably feasible to adapt the same technology for
developing a missile shield, and they probably would now. Once that happens,
Russia and US will be forced to enhance our nuclear capability which may entail
increasing the number of warheads.
India being a democratic country does not mean that it is safe for them to have
nuclear weapon. 300 million Indians live under poverty of $2/day. Although the
GDP is increasing, their growth rate may not be sustainable – corruption
(remember the commonwealth game fiasco), hugh fiscal deficit, high population growth rate, running out or natural resources (running out of fossil water which a
large fraction of population is depended on in 20 years), high illiteracy, etc. It just
take one lunatic politician to stir up anti-China sentiment to divert attention of
government failure to retent office, or get elected, and things can quickly spiral
out-of-hand. Remember the high illiteracy rate. Democracy and high illiteracy rate
are a bad mix.
That way, the scientific world is actually focused on useful stuff for it's citizens.
Yeah, there's the convoluted route to a few civilian benefit from military
technology, but wouldn't you save more time and money by being direct, focusing
the research on civilian benefit? Let's not even get into military cost overruns, lousy
oversight, corruption etc.
And the geopolitical politics and drama? It's like trying to keep up with the
Joneses when your own house is out of order.
Something tells me India is getting played. And we've probably got a big hand in
it. Something to the effect of North Korea is to China like India is to the U.S. At
least our pawn is way bigger than China's.


		It's all geopolitics! Absolutely ridiculous that a country where 75% live in abject poverty are busy building themselves weapons to attack a neigboring country. India is a completely corrupt, dysfunctional "democrazy" where volatile corrupt politicians can at any time send off a missile to divert public attention, whip up nationalistic fervor just to win votes. I supposed we could thank western media like the Economist which continually drum up China's "military rise" to egg India on in taking action. It doesn't take much to egg the Indians into anything. They are volatile and gullible. I'm sure the defense minister and his cronies in the military received plenty of kickbacks from whomever sold them their nuclear arsenal. Only pompous baffoons like the British would want to invade a poverty stricken, over populated country with little to no natural resources like India. To say that they need these weapons for self-defense is a joke. What do they need these weapons for other than to attack and invade their neighbors? This will just push all of India's neighbors closer to China. Some of us cheer India for having nuclear weapon capable of striking China but did not realize that we can be unwillingly dragged into a global arm race. A few years back, China has developed laser technology capable of shooting down satellite in high orbit. It is probably feasible to adapt the same technology for developing a missile shield, and they probably would now. Once that happens, Russia and US will be forced to enhance our nuclear capability which may entail increasing the number of warheads. India being a democratic country does not mean that it is safe for them to have nuclear weapon. 300 million Indians live under poverty of $2/day. Although the GDP is increasing, their growth rate may not be sustainable – corruption (remember the commonwealth game fiasco), hugh fiscal deficit, high population growth rate, running out or natural resources (running out of fossil water which a large fraction of population is depended on in 20 years), high illiteracy, etc. It just take one lunatic politician to stir up anti-China sentiment to divert attention of government failure to retent office, or get elected, and things can quickly spiral out-of-hand. Remember the high illiteracy rate. Democracy and high illiteracy rate are a bad mix. That way, the scientific world is actually focused on useful stuff for it's citizens. Yeah, there's the convoluted route to a few civilian benefit from military technology, but wouldn't you save more time and money by being direct, focusing the research on civilian benefit? Let's not even get into military cost overruns, lousy oversight, corruption etc. And the geopolitical politics and drama? It's like trying to keep up with the Joneses when your own house is out of order. Something tells me India is getting played. And we've probably got a big hand in it. Something to the effect of North Korea is to China like India is to the U.S. At least our pawn is way bigger than China's.
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