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The spares supply problems are slightly overblown. It was a bureucracy, supply and money problem, not a technical problem.
Since Parrikar, it is slowly being resolved. Quite slowly though. But the sanctions should accelerate the process.
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The IGA was signed a few months ago.
This contract was possibly one of the most important ones we have signed with Russia in the last 20 years. It was in the making since 2015, spearheaded by Parrikar.
Since Parrikar, it is slowly being resolved. Quite slowly though. But the sanctions should accelerate the process.
After Modi-Putin meet, Russia scouts for private Indian players to make defence spares
The new agreement will be a bonanza for Indian defence companies since Russian equipment constitute about 70 per cent of Indian military assets.
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India, Russia eye more joint collaborations, pact soon for manufacturing defence spares
Once inked, the agreement will help faster servicing and higher availability of defence equipment for all 3 services — Army, Navy & Indian Air Force.
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The IGA was signed a few months ago.
Defence Production Units
An Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) on “Mutual Cooperation in Joint Manufacturing of Spares, Compo
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This contract was possibly one of the most important ones we have signed with Russia in the last 20 years. It was in the making since 2015, spearheaded by Parrikar.
We often discuss the ill effects of indoctrination in primary & secondary education in the syllabi in Pakistan where Hindus, Hinduism & India are repeatedly demonised & condemned as untrustworthy infidels among other slurs & stereotypes.
Have we ever paid attention to what is it they teach in UK? Apart from the above samples I've come across some really astonishing displays of ignorance by men & women with rather "impressive academic credentials" now part of academia or media or TTs.
Why do I say this? I mean we're all acquainted with Paddy & his views on British colonialism in India , but then he's Paddy, you'd say. What else do you expect from him? While that's true but Not so fast , I'd respond.
Sample this - a few days before R Day this year when Modi declared that Netaji Bose's statue would be unveiled at India Gate near the Tomb of the unknown Soldier a "South Asia Specialist" actually condemned the move labelling Netaji as a Nazi collaborator categorically stating that this was a Sanghi ploy to shore up support for such muscular nationalism by downplaying Gandhi Nehru the INC's etc role in the freedom struggle & that Netaji didn't enjoy much public support in India.
Now around that time this woman & her views on the matter weren't an isolated view. There were plenty of others echoing her PoV.
In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia | John Pilger
John Pilger: Washington's role in Ukraine, and its backing for the regime's neo-Nazis, has huge implications for the rest of the world
In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia
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Washington's role in Ukraine, and its backing for the regime's neo-Nazis, has huge implications for the rest of the world
A pro-Russian activist with a shell casing and a US-made meal pack that fell from a Ukrainian army APC in an attack on a roadblock on 3 May in Andreevka, Ukraine. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty
Tue 13 May 2014 15.30 EDT
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Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a "brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis", as if the truth "never happened even while it was happening".
Every year the American historian William Blum publishes his "updated summary of the record of US foreign policy" which shows that, since 1945, the US has tried to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democratically elected; grossly interfered in elections in 30 countries; bombed the civilian populations of 30 countries; used chemical and biological weapons; and attempted to assassinate foreign leaders.
In many cases Britain has been a collaborator. The degree of human suffering, let alone criminality, is little acknowledged in the west, despite the presence of the world's most advanced communications and nominally most free journalism. That the most numerous victims of terrorism – "our" terrorism – are Muslims, is unsayable. That extreme jihadism, which led to 9/11, was nurtured as a weapon of Anglo-American policy (Operation Cyclone in Afghanistan) is suppressed. In April the US state department noted that, following Nato's campaign in 2011, "Libya has become a terrorist safe haven".
The name of "our" enemy has changed over the years, from communism to Islamism, but generally it is any society independent of western power and occupying strategically useful or resource-rich territory, or merely offering an alternative to US domination. The leaders of these obstructive nations are usually violently shoved aside, such as the democrats Muhammad Mossedeq in Iran, Arbenz in Guatemala and Salvador Allende in Chile, or they are murdered like Patrice Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of Congo. All are subjected to a western media campaign of vilification – think Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, now Vladimir Putin.
Washington's role in Ukraine is different only in its implications for the rest of us. For the first time since the Reagan years, the US is threatening to take the world to war. With eastern Europe and the Balkans now military outposts of Nato, the last "buffer state" bordering Russia – Ukraine – is being torn apart by fascist forces unleashed by the US and the EU. We in the west are now backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler.
Having masterminded the coup in February against the democratically elected government in Kiev, Washington's planned seizure of Russia's historic, legitimate warm-water naval base in Crimea failed. The Russians defended themselves, as they have done against every threat and invasion from the west for almost a century.
But Nato's military encirclement has accelerated, along with US-orchestrated attacks on ethnic Russians in Ukraine. If Putin can be provoked into coming to their aid, his pre-ordained "pariah" role will justify a Nato-run guerrilla war that is likely to spill into Russia itself.
Instead, Putin has confounded the war party by seeking an accommodation with Washington and the EU, by withdrawing Russian troops from the Ukrainian border and urging ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine to abandon the weekend's provocative referendum. These Russian-speaking and bilingual people – a third of Ukraine's population – have long sought a democratic federation that reflects the country's ethnic diversity and is both autonomous of Kiev and independent of Moscow. Most are neither "separatists" nor "rebels", as the western media calls them, but citizens who want to live securely in their homeland.
Like the ruins of Iraq and Afghanistan, Ukraine has been turned into a CIA theme park – run personally by CIA director John Brennan in Kiev, with dozens of "special units" from the CIA and FBI setting up a "security structure" that oversees savage attacks on those who opposed the February coup. Watch the videos, read the eye-witness reports from the massacre in Odessa this month. Bussed fascist thugs burned the trade union headquarters, killing 41 people trapped inside. Watch the police standing by.
A doctor described trying to rescue people, "but I was stopped by pro-Ukrainian Nazi radicals. One of them pushed me away rudely, promising that soon me and other Jews of Odessa are going to meet the same fate. What occurred yesterday didn't even take place during the fascist occupation in my town in world war two. I wonder, why the whole world is keeping silent." [see footnote]
Russian-speaking Ukrainians are fighting for survival.
When Putin announced the withdrawal of Russian troops from the border, the Kiev junta's defence secretary, Andriy Parubiy – a founding member of the fascist Svoboda party – boasted that attacks on "insurgents" would continue. In Orwellian style, propaganda in the west has inverted this to Moscow "trying to orchestrate conflict and provocation", according to William Hague. His cynicism is matched by Obama's grotesque congratulations to the coup junta on its "remarkable restraint" after the Odessa massacre. The junta, says Obama, is "duly elected". As Henry Kissinger once said: "It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but what is perceived to be true."
In the US media the Odessa atrocity has been played down as "murky" and a "tragedy" in which "nationalists" (neo-Nazis) attacked "separatists" (people collecting signatures for a referendum on a federal Ukraine). Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal damned the victims – "Deadly Ukraine Fire Likely Sparked by Rebels, Government Says". Propaganda in Germany has been pure cold war, with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung warning its readers of Russia's "undeclared war". For the Germans, it is a poignant irony that Putin is the only leader to condemn the rise of fascism in 21st-century Europe.
A popular truism is that "the world changed" following 9/11. But what has changed? According to the great whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, a silent coup has taken place in Washington and rampant militarism now rules. The Pentagon currently runs "special operations" – secret wars – in 124 countries. At home, rising poverty and a loss of liberty are the historic corollary of a perpetual war state. Add the risk of nuclear war, and the question is: why do we tolerate this?
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I think it can safely be said none of us understand Russian or Ukrainian enough to tell the difference between them or to tell what's being conveyed in that video. For all you know that could well be a Russian fighter taking out Ukrainian targets but trust you to tell the difference.
A Putin-Macron call leaves France persuaded that Russia wants ‘control of all of Ukraine.’
A Putin-Macron call leaves France persuaded that Russia wants ‘control of all of Ukraine.’
On the call, the Russian president said that his goal, “the demilitarization and neutral status of Ukraine,” would be achieved “no matter what,” according to the Kremlin.
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A phone conversation between President Emmanuel Macron of France and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday offered little hope that the fighting in Ukraine would abate any time soon, with the Kremlin saying it had no intention of backing down from a war that “is going according to plan” and the French presidency warning that Mr. Putin appeared determined to invade the entire country.
“Our analysis of the military operations is that the Russian ambitions are to take control of all of Ukraine,” said a senior official in the French presidency, who briefed reporters on the 90-minute conversation between the two leaders and said Mr. Macron expressed “pessimism” after the call. "
Confirms what we saw from Sputnik.
Whatever he may say, I don't think that's the end game. That statement may well have been released to misguide the West. If he indeed does undertake such a move he'd be inviting an active insurgency supported by all those states on the rim - all NATO members.A Putin-Macron call leaves France persuaded that Russia wants ‘control of all of Ukraine.’
A Putin-Macron call leaves France persuaded that Russia wants ‘control of all of Ukraine.’
On the call, the Russian president said that his goal, “the demilitarization and neutral status of Ukraine,” would be achieved “no matter what,” according to the Kremlin.www.nytimes.com
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A phone conversation between President Emmanuel Macron of France and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday offered little hope that the fighting in Ukraine would abate any time soon, with the Kremlin saying it had no intention of backing down from a war that “is going according to plan” and the French presidency warning that Mr. Putin appeared determined to invade the entire country.
“Our analysis of the military operations is that the Russian ambitions are to take control of all of Ukraine,” said a senior official in the French presidency, who briefed reporters on the 90-minute conversation between the two leaders and said Mr. Macron expressed “pessimism” after the call. "
Confirms what we saw from Sputnik.
He will leave a rump state for not all of Ukraine is comfortable with Russian occupation.
By leaving behind a rump state with a Garrison to uphold a puppet regime he effectively creates a buffer & ensures the insurgency is limited to the rump state.
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We paid the West back in literally the same coin. "Dialogue and diplomacy".
Yes, that's the answer to all your problems, America.
A Putin-Macron call leaves France persuaded that Russia wants ‘control of all of Ukraine.’
A Putin-Macron call leaves France persuaded that Russia wants ‘control of all of Ukraine.’
On the call, the Russian president said that his goal, “the demilitarization and neutral status of Ukraine,” would be achieved “no matter what,” according to the Kremlin.
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A phone conversation between President Emmanuel Macron of France and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday offered little hope that the fighting in Ukraine would abate any time soon, with the Kremlin saying it had no intention of backing down from a war that “is going according to plan” and the French presidency warning that Mr. Putin appeared determined to invade the entire country.
“Our analysis of the military operations is that the Russian ambitions are to take control of all of Ukraine,” said a senior official in the French presidency, who briefed reporters on the 90-minute conversation between the two leaders and said Mr. Macron expressed “pessimism” after the call. "
Confirms what we saw from Sputnik.
Yes, they plan on "taking control" and installing a puppet.
If you think this is bad , evidently you haven't read what the Commies did to win in Stalingrad or the Chinese to force a stalemate in Korea. Do you want some good reading recommendations ?
USA is responsible for this war
And all the suffering
It looks like USA planned all of this
You pushed Ukraine and kept ignoring Russian protests about NATO expansion and ultimately
Russia just snapped