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FlyDie, Volume Two
Nineteen more FlyDie comments across six threads: the three pillars of caste, what the Mughals took from the land, how the Rig Veda got written, Kerala’s three-cornered trade, and Bollywood…
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Xi, Putin and Pezeshkian Walk Into Delhi
X.T.M reads the BRICS summit in Delhi, with Xi, Putin and Pezeshkian present during a US blockade of Iran, as the West’s non-Western partners rerouting around it. He sees BRICS…
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Pakistan, the deciding hinge between the West & CRINK
X.T.M argues that Pakistan is one of the most dextrous middle powers, sitting at the hinge between the West and the China-Russia-Iran bloc. He says its position, professional military and…
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Trump Has Birthed Eurasia
X.T.M argues that Donald Trump’s treatment of India has pushed Narendra Modi towards the SCO summit alongside Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, and reads the occasion as the start of…
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🪙 What’s in a Name? Mukesh, Not Mukash.
Prompted by a misspelling of Mukesh Ambani’s name, X.T.M argues that upper-caste Indians wrongly expect wealth to buy Western respect, describes a Brahmin–Baniya compact, and says China profits quietly from…
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China: The Unseen Winner of the Indo-Pak Skirmish?
A short framing note followed by a relayed Telegram-circulated account and a commenter’s quoted view of the May 2025 India-Pakistan air clash, claiming Chinese systems outperformed Western ones and that…
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Pakistan Is Showing Restraint. That Should Worry India.
Argues that Pakistan’s restraint after the Pahalgam attack is calculated strategy, not weakness, comparing it to Prussia and to Russian patience after 2014. The author says India’s hawkish base is…
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India at a Crossroads: Superpower or Spectator?
Argues that the unipolar moment is over and five great powers now compete, each with its own grand strategy, so India must decide whether to shape this order or watch.…
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Yalta vs. Helsinki – Sir Alex Younger and the New Global Intelligence Order
Summarises a video by former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger, who argues that the world is contested between a Yalta model of great-power spheres of influence and a Helsinki model…
