Agni III test fired successfully: India joins the ICBM club!

[Provost Harrison]

Re: Agni III test fired successfully: India joins the ICBM club!

Originally posted by aneeshm
I am almost beside myself with joy

You are strange!

[Dinner]

How is this missile an ICBM if it can't reach another continent?

[Provost Harrison]

Inter County Ballistic Missile

[Sandman]

Originally posted by dannubis
this thread makes sense...

no how about developing your country just as the chinese do?

not nationalistic enough i guess

Nationalists often have trouble mixing their daft notions with economic development. Some can pull it off, but most are happy to let their country rot as long as meaningless milestones are passed.

[BeBMan]

Agni is kinda cute though.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by aneeshm


lol remember that we had a total peacenik pissant for a Prime Minister (Nehru), who didn't allow the army to use the Air Force, which would have allowed us to totally pwn China LOL?????//slash???

I hate the Congress.

I'm pretty sure China would pwn you today, too. At least they invest in infrastructure, instead of in "LOL MUSLIMS ARE TRAITORS" BJP-madness.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Sandman


Nationalists often have trouble mixing their daft notions with economic development. Some can pull it off, but most are happy to let their country rot as long as meaningless milestones are passed.

You forget that India's current economic boom started around the middle of the term of the previous BJP government. The reforms instituted at that time have led to a surge that continues till now. BJP led states almost inevitably do better than Congress led states on economic indices.

For instance, Rajasthan, which had a deficit during the Congress regime, a deficit so severe that it didn't have enough money to implement the state's development schemes, now is running a slight surplus, and has more than enough cash to implement all the stuff they wanted to do to develop the state. The Chief Minister - a woman, by the way - Vasudhara Raje - managed to cut the flab.

Gujarat is so prosperous that visitors to the state from other parts of the country feel that they have entered the first world. Narendra Modi thinks not in terms of competing with India's other states, but with China, all the while staying within the democratic framework.

[Nubclear]

Gujarat is so prosperous that visitors to the state from other parts of the country feel that they have entered the first world.

And then they fly to Beijing and see what real development is like.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Tacc


I'm pretty sure China would pwn you today, too. At least they invest in infrastructure, instead of in "LOL MUSLIMS ARE TRAITORS" BJP-madness.

They probably would, I'm sure.

Point is, can they survive the internal political upheavals of the next 50 or 100 years, the way we are guaranteed to?

China has to democratise sometime, and if even one thing goes wrong, they're pretty much sunk. If they never democratise, then they'll stagnate, and be torn apart by internal dissent.

It sucks to be a commie, doesn't it? Even if you do everything right, that damn emancipation happiness from other countries adopting it ruins it.

As for investing in infrastructure: the BJP has envisaged two projects which could change the face of India beyond all imagination:

The Golden Quadrilateral + North-South corridor

and

River Linking



The GQ/NS is nearing completion, and will be finished within a few more years.

If and when the River Linking project is completed, India becomes the country which it is impossible to compete with in terms of agriculture - we will swamp the world. Say goodbye to water scarcity or floods.

[Nubclear]

v.


One is India. One is China. Guess which one is which!

[Kuciwalker]

Re: Agni III test fired successfully: India joins the ICBM club!

Originally posted by aneeshm
I think the logical next step will be to bring the USA within range. Given that it is at the other end of the world, that means that the whole world will then be in range.

We can still bomb you and your nukes back into the origins of Hindu civilization, *****.

[Kuciwalker]

Tassi: that had better be time-lapse photography in the last one.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Tassi: that had better be time-lapse photography in the last one.

Apparently you have no idea what time-lapse photography is.

[aneeshm]

Re: Re: Agni III test fired successfully: India joins the ICBM club!

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


We can still bomb you and your nukes back into the origins of Hindu civilization, *****.

Part of the plan is not to actually do anything until you're impotent by comparison, and until you attack.

Patience is a virtue.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Tacc

One is India. One is China. Guess which one is which!

One is a democracy which tries to respect its own people. The other is a dictatorship which throws you out of its prime cities if you don't have a job, and takes your land away if some industry promises to get the state more tax revenues.

Guess which is which.