It's not about being unprincipled, the non-alignment policy goes all the way back to Nehru. In practice, India has been closer to Russia though. The Soviets intercepted aircraft carriers sent by USA and UK to attack India during 1971 war, for example.

Of course, if a country isn’t with the US, they’re against it, and thus India is being slowly funneled towards the East

Eh, I don't agree. Being pro-China would be political suicide, I don't see this happening unless the West monumentally fucks up diplomatic relations. Despite the media uproar, they didn't sanction India for buying Russian gas.

Haha, that's not Hitler and the monopoly guy. These are just some side characters from Tintin and the blue lotus.

True, this might convince absolutists to soften their position.

I don't think this will convince people who believe in abstinence. The argument isn't perfect anyway, because if you have consensual PIV sex you know that pregnancy is a possible outcome whereas in your example it's completely random.

If only Indians knew about the Himalayas.. /s

It's not as straightforward as you make it seem. Just take a look how the Indian government has reacted to events perceived as aggressions: China has been building military infrastructure in disputed territory, there was a conflict in Galwan and yet the Indian government responded by just banning some Chinese apps. On the other hand, the Indian government launched surgical strikes in Pakistan occupied Kashmir a couple of years ago in response to Pakistani terrorists attacking an Indian military base.

Finland and Estonia urge EU to stop issuing tourist visas to Russians (https://www.ft.com/content/33173b4e-aa75-46b6-ae6b-83c2591c1c10)

“Stop issuing tourist visas to Russians,” Kaja Kallas, Estonia’s prime minister, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. “Visiting Europe is a privilege, not a human right. Air travel from Russia is shut down. It means while Schengen countries issue visas, neighbours to Russia carry the burden (Finland, Estonia, Latvia — sole access points).”

Sanna Marin, Finland’s prime minister, told state broadcaster Yle: “It’s not right that at the same time as Russia is waging an aggressive, brutal war of aggression in Europe, Russians can live a normal life, travel in Europe, be tourists. It’s not right.”

What a joke, lol. I wonder if they feel the same about America or Israel (or any other country in the imperial core).

Tbh, I initially thought it was PR but I clearly underestimated the number of Hillary stans.

What's up with all the smug Hillary memes on Reddit lately? Do you guys think she might be preparing to run again or is this just redditors being redditors?

Only China and India have no first use policies.

Browsed a thread on r/politics after a long time and it has reignited my hatred for liberals.

:party-sicko:

I love this meme, lmao: https://www.reddit.com/r/arcane/comments/r0cle7/no_spoilers_politics/

Right? If I were American 🤢 , I would be more worried about the FBI having my data. I've never understood the argument about CcP sTeaLinG dAtA, when they can't do anything against you with it.

Eh, I interpreted the thread to mean countries which are subservient to USA to their own detriment. Otherwise, every single capitalist country is "ideologically cucked", no?

I know about that. That's why your comment doesn't make sense. Germany is destroying their economy to kowtow to America, meanwhile India purchased cheap Russian oil and isn't even getting sanctioned for it. It's the opposite of cucked. :shrug-outta-hecks:

India is closer to Russia than USA, so idk what you're talking about.

:assad-must-stay:

It's probably written for those who want to follow FIRE (financial independence/retiring early).

did we really need IT support?

Yes? Idk how it works in your organisation, but where I work IT support is responsible for responding to tickets caused by user error, known issues and they try to provide workarounds for simple issues. Any tickets which require code changes are handled by the software engineer who is oncall. Would be wasteful if I also had to respond to tickets which do not require in-depth knowledge of the codebase.

I've personally encountered more issues with Ubuntu than with Windows, so I don't see what this has to do with Microsoft tbh. Mac is great but they have control over the hardware and don't offer backwards compatibility like Windows does. :shrug-outta-hecks:

What's up with all the buildings on fire in Russia? Sabotage by 3 letter agencies? Genuine dissatisfaction of the Russian people? Or is it just overemphasis by Western media for propaganda purposes?