The Alt-Media Community at large is comprised of “anti-Zionist activists” who already distrust India due to its close ties with Israel and also mistakenly believe that BRICS is a security bloc, which preconditioned them to believe that its Army Chief admitted to helping the US sink an Iranian ship.
Agreed. All journalists are to some extent hamstrung by their sources (see Sy Hersh's precipitous decline in discerning his sources). Escobar, as a journalist, should have been more careful about retweeting videos without some sort of disclaimer as to their provenance. However, that's the nature of Xitter: pure id.
Andrew, we know what jester( and perhaps worse) jester is Escobar, but as usual, you are very, very, very too much nice with India.
I find the acts of this country disgusting.
Few years ago, India swore eternal friendship and backing to Iran. Few months after, it totally stopped its purchase of oil to Iran. Three days before the agression of Iran, Modhi did a disgusting and abject porn show in Israël.
You can play with words but the true is that India condemned Iran and only Iran.
India claim it never said to Trump that it will stop its purchases of oil to Russia but in facts, it severely lowered those purchase and now the Gulf is shut, it come back begging to Russia.
Ok, I don't know indian mentality but how do you want to respect such a big fat grocer without guts.
I believe Andrew's focus here wasn't on absolving India but more on the fact that we should remain critical of the news we consume, regardless of the ideological source. In this case BRICS+ bashing as well as a narrative of Iran being cornered, back stabbed and beleaguered by everyone. India's MO will eventually boomerang.
you refer to the turkic invaders of iran, that later invaded india? that's in fact an argument you should have protected them during the initial invasion...
There was a powerful Dravidian racist empire known as the Rashtrakutas existing in Peninsular part of India at that time, a very big empire indeed. Its rulers practised untouchability and superstitious worship of anthills. Because of its ingrained hatred towards the Indian masses. This dynasty colluded with emissaries sent by Arabs who lived on the Persian Gulf littoral in the 9th century. Those emissaries succeeded in compromising the Rashtrakuta Queen by seducing her and her mother with their virile charms. As a result of such manipulation, those Arabs managed to manipulate the debauched Dravidian Rashtrakuta queen into wreaking vengeance on principalities based in northern India which had been carrying out a protracted struggle against the barbarian hordes that had conquered and occupied Iran some years ago by opening an unprovoked second front against them and settling priestcrafty untouchability-mongers as colonists in the Southern flanks (Chhattisgarh) of the northern principalities for social-engineering the demography. Such was the magical influence of the Arab charmers on the ugly Queen enamoured of the raw virility of the
Saracenic demigods that she ordered captives brought as war booty from the northern plains by her marauding army to be tortured to death on hot stoves just for the fun of watching victims suffer in tribulation, a feat which inspired her depraved court poet laurette Ranna to pen the lines "tortured like a fly trembling upon a heated saucer".
Nadir Shah was a Turk (Afshar) tribesman, who had assassinated the last ruler of the Safavid dynasty and ascended to the throne.
Incidentally, Shah Pahlevi, the poster boy of USA and its Dravidian surrogates, sat daily on the Peacock throne on which his coronation ceremony had taken place. The Peacock throne in Tehran is believed to be a replica of the millions of dollars worth gem studded Peacock throne which had been looted from India by Nadir Shah's army. Why did the Dravidian priests who feign Hinduistic pretentions with the sole motive of hijacking Indian foreign policy and popular sentiment on the American bandwagon not ask their dear friend the Shah Pehlevi to return the Peacock Throne to India along with indemnity reparations?
Bibi has been doing a fine job creating anti-Zionists by the millions, if not billions, all by himself. Then comes Modi, giving him a big hug, just before Bibi waging a war that is going to impoverish everybody, especially an already piss poor country. Think the story writes itself just fine.
For decades, people like Bibi and his predecessors were able to 1) rob and kill without recourse, while 2) the US was able to provide a region wide "security umbrella" cover against any moaner. What the current war demonstrates, to the whole world, especially to the Arabs, is that neither holds water anymore. Welcome to the new world!
Modi visited Israel one or two days before the attack. That is why it was so easy to believe Fake News. To be generous we can assume he tried to dissuade Bibi but some questions remain.
You can think that, it's your right, but it's not mutually exclusive with acknowledging that this viral video is an AI-assisted fake originating from a popular Pakistani journalist. You can dislike Modi while recognizing that his Army Chief did not in fact say what the video claimed.
I was just stating that because Modi shares Israel's and the US's fascist ideology. That factors into India's politics and decisions. I wasn't disagreeing with your assessment. Which I agree with 👍🏻
Serious question: what are your views on the Jewish people? I have a thesis that anti-semites are always also Hinduphobes. Just wanted to add one more data point. Thank you in advance.
The video may be fake, but that doesn't mean that India didn't seek to curry favor with the Americans.
Some times curry favouring, some time downright prostrating.
Agreed. All journalists are to some extent hamstrung by their sources (see Sy Hersh's precipitous decline in discerning his sources). Escobar, as a journalist, should have been more careful about retweeting videos without some sort of disclaimer as to their provenance. However, that's the nature of Xitter: pure id.
I see Escobar as a fantasist, the Alt-media Luke Harding.
I used to follow Pepe Escobar like 20 years ago but have since tend to ignore Pepe's writings which I'd more or less describe as shiny garbage.
It's not like the Iranian war ship had a cloaking device so it wouldn't have been necessary for India to reveal the ship's location.
He's wrong all the time, and whenever caught out, he just moves on to the next thing.
I stopped listening to him.
Idem, for more than five years.
At the best he is a jester, at the worse it's a fake nose.
Andrew, we know what jester( and perhaps worse) jester is Escobar, but as usual, you are very, very, very too much nice with India.
I find the acts of this country disgusting.
Few years ago, India swore eternal friendship and backing to Iran. Few months after, it totally stopped its purchase of oil to Iran. Three days before the agression of Iran, Modhi did a disgusting and abject porn show in Israël.
You can play with words but the true is that India condemned Iran and only Iran.
India claim it never said to Trump that it will stop its purchases of oil to Russia but in facts, it severely lowered those purchase and now the Gulf is shut, it come back begging to Russia.
Ok, I don't know indian mentality but how do you want to respect such a big fat grocer without guts.
I believe Andrew's focus here wasn't on absolving India but more on the fact that we should remain critical of the news we consume, regardless of the ideological source. In this case BRICS+ bashing as well as a narrative of Iran being cornered, back stabbed and beleaguered by everyone. India's MO will eventually boomerang.
India and Poland are probably the two only topics about what I don't agree with Andrew
Iran was never our friend and never will be.
Look up Nadir Shah.
you refer to the turkic invaders of iran, that later invaded india? that's in fact an argument you should have protected them during the initial invasion...
There was a powerful Dravidian racist empire known as the Rashtrakutas existing in Peninsular part of India at that time, a very big empire indeed. Its rulers practised untouchability and superstitious worship of anthills. Because of its ingrained hatred towards the Indian masses. This dynasty colluded with emissaries sent by Arabs who lived on the Persian Gulf littoral in the 9th century. Those emissaries succeeded in compromising the Rashtrakuta Queen by seducing her and her mother with their virile charms. As a result of such manipulation, those Arabs managed to manipulate the debauched Dravidian Rashtrakuta queen into wreaking vengeance on principalities based in northern India which had been carrying out a protracted struggle against the barbarian hordes that had conquered and occupied Iran some years ago by opening an unprovoked second front against them and settling priestcrafty untouchability-mongers as colonists in the Southern flanks (Chhattisgarh) of the northern principalities for social-engineering the demography. Such was the magical influence of the Arab charmers on the ugly Queen enamoured of the raw virility of the
Saracenic demigods that she ordered captives brought as war booty from the northern plains by her marauding army to be tortured to death on hot stoves just for the fun of watching victims suffer in tribulation, a feat which inspired her depraved court poet laurette Ranna to pen the lines "tortured like a fly trembling upon a heated saucer".
We took in the Zoroastrians, now called the Parsis of India.
Ok, so why few years ago, Modhi swore eternal friendship to it.
Either he was a liar, either he is now a man without word.
Or both
Or he's acting like a Western politician.
Nadir Shah was a Turk (Afshar) tribesman, who had assassinated the last ruler of the Safavid dynasty and ascended to the throne.
Incidentally, Shah Pahlevi, the poster boy of USA and its Dravidian surrogates, sat daily on the Peacock throne on which his coronation ceremony had taken place. The Peacock throne in Tehran is believed to be a replica of the millions of dollars worth gem studded Peacock throne which had been looted from India by Nadir Shah's army. Why did the Dravidian priests who feign Hinduistic pretentions with the sole motive of hijacking Indian foreign policy and popular sentiment on the American bandwagon not ask their dear friend the Shah Pehlevi to return the Peacock Throne to India along with indemnity reparations?
Pépé Eskobar is Bolshevik
Bibi has been doing a fine job creating anti-Zionists by the millions, if not billions, all by himself. Then comes Modi, giving him a big hug, just before Bibi waging a war that is going to impoverish everybody, especially an already piss poor country. Think the story writes itself just fine.
For decades, people like Bibi and his predecessors were able to 1) rob and kill without recourse, while 2) the US was able to provide a region wide "security umbrella" cover against any moaner. What the current war demonstrates, to the whole world, especially to the Arabs, is that neither holds water anymore. Welcome to the new world!
Modi visited Israel one or two days before the attack. That is why it was so easy to believe Fake News. To be generous we can assume he tried to dissuade Bibi but some questions remain.
Modi is a fascist, though.
You can think that, it's your right, but it's not mutually exclusive with acknowledging that this viral video is an AI-assisted fake originating from a popular Pakistani journalist. You can dislike Modi while recognizing that his Army Chief did not in fact say what the video claimed.
I was just stating that because Modi shares Israel's and the US's fascist ideology. That factors into India's politics and decisions. I wasn't disagreeing with your assessment. Which I agree with 👍🏻
Ok
Define fascist first. These days it means "right wing."
Unfortunately for you, he's the opposite of right wing, wasting billions of our money on useless schemes.
The difference between him and his opposition is marginal.
Modi his a Hindu supremacist. That makes him a fascist🤦♀️
You're repeating Western and Pakistani propaganda.
He is nothing of the sort.
During his PM-ship he has wasted more money pandering to the desert cult than his "non fascist" predecessors.
During his PM-ship not one murderer or child rapist has been sentenced to death, unless they were Hindus.
During his PM-ship laws which target Hindus have been made even more atrocious.
He promised to implement UCC but made things worse.
I could go on, but I can tell you lack the critical thinking skills required to comprehend what is real and what is propaganda.
More proof that Modi as a fascist is completely incompetent:
https://x.com/poornimanimo/status/2031191548134830442
Serious question: what are your views on the Jewish people? I have a thesis that anti-semites are always also Hinduphobes. Just wanted to add one more data point. Thank you in advance.