Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hello, good evening and good day everybody and welcome back to the ask show. This is episode 200 352. I hope you're all doing great. We're going to discuss the Iran war and other things as well as per the questions that you ask me. But we're going to first start with the situation in Iran and the region. But before we do any of that, let us see who all is there on the live stream on the live chat with us.

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So now let's get going with uh the updates and then I'll take as many questions as uh you ask me. So what what's going on? What is the situation in West Asia? Is there going to be peace now or is the US planning to string spring a big surprise? You see you have to understand that the guy who is running the US right now is Donald J. Trump. The guy has a massive massive ego and he wants to be remembered in his see he's he's an elderly person now. What's his age? Must be close to 80 around 80. Yeah. He Why is he doing whatever he's doing? He wants to be remembered in history. He wants to leave behind a legacy. He wants to be remembered as the biggest, baddest, greatest president of the United States in all history. That's what he wants to be remembered for. He doesn't want to be remembered for being the guy who lost to Iran. And therefore, I don't think that this ceasefire is going to last too too long. I think Trump is planning to spring a big surprise on on Iran. And we know that he is I mean we saw yesterday in yesterday's live stream that he has assembled he's in the process of assembling a massive uh military force in the region multiple aircraft carriers. There's lots of uh large transport aircraft flow flying into the region every single day. There's a whole bunch of refueling aircraft in Israel right now. There's so much more that they're bringing on site in the Gulf region right now. Looks like this ceasefire is just a ploy for the US to regroup, restrategize, reorient itself and re uh you know rearm, bring in more arms, weapons, munitions, everything and then go after Iran once again. And it looks like there are currently now three aircraft carriers positioned in the overall Sentcom region. So, I think sooner or later there's going to be an attack, massive attack on Iran, bigger, more massive than what the US uh did in the first round of the war. So, that's what I think is going to happen. I hope I'm completely wrong. I hope there's peace. Yes. But it looks like this could be uh on the cards.

Now, let's take a look at uh what's been happening over the past 24 hours or so. Yesterday I I showed you what's happened over the past week or so. Now let's see what's happened over the past um 24 hours or so. So let's see what have we here. So this is from yesterday evening, yesterday night when we were having our discussion. So this is from uh a lady who is an anchor and White House correspondent at Fox News and she says that uh breaking news yesterday night. President Trump just told me over the phone that he has unilaterally canceled Witkov and Kushner's trip to Pakistan to meet the Iranians. I've told my people a little while ago they were getting ready to leave and I said, "Nope, you're not making an 18-hour flight to go there. We have all the cards. They can call us anytime they want, but you're not going to be making any more 18-hour flights to sit around uh talking about nothing." Okay, so that's something that happened last night.

What else? Uh and there have been news reports. So this is u from today. It's from today. So who is Ryan Grim? Ryan Grim is a reporter at Dropside News and he's an author. Okay. So he says that the erroneous news reports indicating that the US and Iran would be restarting talks were produced because Pakistan's ISPR sent the following incorrect update to many journalists. They did not send it directly to me but I was forwarded it and this is the this was the message breaking attributable to Pakistani government sources. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arachi is expected to arrive in Islamabad tonight with a small delegation according to government sources. Pakistani government sources. Following important discussions with the Pakistani mediation team, a second round of Islamabad peace talks between the US and Iran is expected. Pakistani government sources say a US logistics and security team is already present in Islamabad to facilitate the negotiation process. So this is what the Pakistanis what the Pakistani military establishment this is the message. This is the update that sent to uh western journalists and Pakistani journalists as well and these western journalists they immediately reported that the US and Iran would be restarting talks in Islamabad. This was completely incorrect. So it was never true that Aragi had any plans to reenter negotiations last week. Why would the Pakistanis say otherwise and that's odd stuff. So the Pakistanis are, you know, they they're doing what they're best at, you know, misleading people and uh and and sowing chaos in the world. So, so it's interesting that, okay, we know that the Pakistanis can't be trusted, but why is the western media picking up everything that Pakistanis are saying as gospel truth and and publishing it? The western media seems to be very aligned with Pakistan, doesn't it? Very interesting. Very interesting. the western media. So it looks like the western media see look first of all the western media isn't some uh you know independent media or something they have an agenda they have the agenda to put forth the whatever is you know in the American national interest and that's why they are they probably have been told to align themselves with Pakistan and and put forth any propaganda nonsense that Pakistani gives them and the Pakistanis gave them a big untruth which is why it got published yesterday.

Okay, what else? Uh this who is this gentleman? Hassan Ahmedan. He's an associate professor of West Asian studies at the University of Thran in Iran. So what does he say? He says that Iran presents the US with two options. Firstly, agreement on a framework built on the outcomes of the war and the American failure in the war based on international law giving Iran what it earned both economically and legally. That's option one. Option two, resumption of military confrontation through the implementation of the siege on the ground or striking Iran directly for the third time. The hope of achieving a military breakthrough still lingers among some of Trump's inner circle. Number three, a third option can also be considered. An American stopping of the siege, leaving the strait of Hormuz and the postwar balance to the international community and Iran to deal with. Iran leans more towards the first and third options but it focuses on its efforts on preparing for the second. So this looks like an accurate you know outline of the options that Iran and the US have. Iran will prefer the first and the third option but it will be preparing for the second option and Trump will prefer the second option. Right? So this what this person has tweeted it doesn't necessarily mean that he this is the official position official position of the government of Iran but it is a logical analysis of what options are available to the US and to Iran and my understanding my analysis is that the US will prefer number two which is why I said at the beginning of this live stream that Trump is most likely going to try and spring a big surprise on Iran and that's why he is bringing in massive force, military force posture in the region with three aircraft carriers and tremendous resupply of whatever troops they have and all that. So most likely, I believe Trump is going to go for option two and that could happen sooner or later, maybe sooner. We'll see. He will order the attack when he's convinced that everything that that can be brought into the region has been brought in and now is the time to strike.

Okay, Ethan Leven Leven says NBC confirms an Iranian an American base was struck with an Iranian F5 jet. The F5 was built in 1959, 67 years ago. It just bombed the largest military in the world. Well, not just bombed. It was a month ago or so, but yes. So listen, a month ago when the actual hot war was going on, there was a lot of speculation that Iran was getting blasted and the Americans had lost maybe five or six aircraft and uh maybe a few few military personnel. But now it is increasingly emerging that the Americans suffered massive damage to their military bases and much more. We know that they tried a failed operation to steal Iranian um missile material and that was a complete disaster. 12 at least 12 aircraft were destroyed including helicopters and whatnot and uh we don't know if Americans were taken prisoner or not but yeah that's what happened. At least 12 aircraft of the US were destroyed in that failed operation. So now there's more of this news coming out. Let's see. Uh Brian Allen says who is this gentleman? He is a podcast host. He is cited by New York Post etc. Okay. Brian Allen. So he says, take a close look at this. NBC News, which is an American news outlet, published a major investigation this afternoon. This is what this is today. Yes. Uh six reporters, six named sources inside the US government. So it is 100% credible. Six named sources from within the US government. The story breaks open something that Trump, the Trump administration has been hiding for two months. The damage that Iran did to American military bases in the opening phase of this war is far worse than what the Pentagon has admitted. Repairs will cost billions of dollars if repairs ever happen. And here's what NBC found. Washington, American military bases and other equipment in the Persian Gulf region suffered extensive damage from Iranian strikes. that is far worse than publicly acknowledged and is expected to cost billions of dollars to repair. According to three US officials, two congressional aids, and another person familiar with the damage, the Iranian regime swiftly retaliated after the Trump administration attacked on February 28, hitting dozens of targets across US military bases in seven Middle East countries. Seven. Those attacks struck warehouses, command headquarters, aircraft hangers, satellite communications infrastructure, runways, high-end radar systems, and dozens of aircraft. Dozens of aircraft the US has lost. It means the US has lost dozens of aircraft. According to the US officials and an assessment by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington DC, in the initial days of the war, an Iranian F5 fighter jet bombed the US base camp Buring in Kuwait despite the the base having air defenses. A rare breach that marked the first time an enemy fixed winged aircraft has struck an American base military base in years according to two of the US officials. So this is this was tweeted today. Continuing Iran hit American bases across seven Middle East countries. Iranian missiles and drones struck warehouses, command headquarters, aircraft, handguars, satellite communications, runways, high-end systems, and dozens of American aircraft. The three US officials familiar with the damage to US bases in the Middle East described it as extensive. The headquarters building for the US Navy in Bahrain. The nerve center for the Navy's operations in the region suffered serious damage, the officials said. They said other parts of the base in Bahrain also suffered significant damage that is likely repairable. Multiple hangars and warehouses in at the Ali al-Salem air base in Kuwait were also struck according to the American Enterprise Institute's unofficial statement that was reviewed by NBC News. The assessment also shows a munitions storage facility at a military base in Erbil in northern Iraq was damaged and a runway at the sprawling Aluda air base in Qatar was destroyed. US bases had been cleared of US troops and other personnel. So many of the bases were left essentially empty and vulnerable to attack by Iranian missiles and drones. Many of the troops who were temporarily relocated and expected to return to return to the bases once tensions in uh the region subside. Continuing in one strike at the Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia, Iran destroyed an E3 Sentry. That is a flying control and command command and control plane. It's one of the most important aircraft in the US military for tracking enemy threats. The tail was blown off. The plane is on the ground in pieces. According to the AEI's statement, Iran hit more than 100 targets across 11 bases in seven Gulf countries. Those attacks fell on US and host nation bases in Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. As part of epic fury, the potential future costs to rebuild American military infrastructure overseas may include repair, reconstruction, outright replacement or or even abandonment or decommissioning of locals. McKenzie Eagland, a senior fellow at AEI, said in a statement about the group's assessment, "War damage also includes estimated costs for infrastructure that is unsalvageable. Eagland's cost estimate for repairing the infrastructure is more than $5 billion, but that amount does not include for some does not account for some of the radar systems, weapon systems, aircraft, and other equipment destroyed in the Iranian strikes. She said she uh Eagland has worked on defense and budgetary and military readiness for years and is a former Pentagon official. The Iranians damaged at least two air defense systems in the region, according to US officials. Continuing in the opening days of the war, an Iranian F5 fighter jet broke through American air defenses and bombed camp Buring in Kuwait. Two US officials told NBC, "This is the first time an enemy fixed wing aircraft has hit an American base military base in years." So in Baharin fifth fifth fleet headquarters, seven reports of damage to satellite communication, satellite protection uh radar protection structures and large warehouses. Iraq Arabil military base. One report of damage to a general administrative building. Jordan Mouafak Sali air base damage to a general administrative building. Kuwait Ali al-S Salam air base 10 reports of damage to warehouses and a runway. Kuwait can camp Arif John 11 reports of damage to radar protection structures and small and large warehouses. Kuwait camping damage to satellite communications hangar and warehouses. Kuwait Schwiba port damage to a general administrative building. Qatar al- Udid air base damage to a runway. Saudi Arabia Prince Al Sultan air base damage to a small warehouse in a radar protection structure. UAE Alafra air base 11 reports of damage to fuel storage, a medical clinic, hangers and barracks. UAE Alice air base military base seven reports of damage to small warehouses and buildings. Can you see the kind of the amount of infrastructure the US has in the West Asia or Gulf region? Bah a massive fifth fleet headquarters. Iraq they have a base. Jordan a base at least has been damaged or destroyed. Kuwait it looks like Kuwait is completely permanently under US occupation. Qatar once again Alu Daid Saudi Arabia UAE that's how you project power but that's been destroyed so this report speaks about damage but I strongly believe much of this has been destroyed maybe permanently let's continue uh what is this is by Glenn Greenwvald who is Glenn Greenwald journalist author columnist etc okay anyone who gets their news about the Iran war from sources outside of the fox neocon sewer allegedly of Sean Hannity and Ben Shapiro already knows that Iran absolutely pummeled US bases in multiple countries. This new reporting shows billions of dollars worth of damage and even cites a study from the Neocon AEI for support. If you talk to any trustworthy American officials, they will tell you the real story. They'll give you the real story about the war. Not just that Iran inflicted far more damage than known and that the US government hid it, including the number and severity of US casualties, but also that as happened in the last war with Iran in 2025, both the US and Israel and now the Persian Gulf dictatorships are very low on munitions and especially anti-missile defense systems. So this is the same report all over again. Right. Right. Okay. So clearly the US has taken tremendous damage and we don't even know how much damage has been inflicted on Israel which probably is far more than what's happened in the uh in the other countries other seven countries Israel must have taken most likely tremendous damage. So my analysis from the beginning was that Iran has is is inflicting significant damage to American bases. Eventually my analysis was that Iran must have destroyed most of the American bases in the region and this is now beginning to corroborate what I was saying all these weeks ago right okay let's continue uh let us mute this pause it one pause one pause uh this is my uh mute that okay furan guara PhD etc etc okay so he says absolute horror an expert Military analysis details the Pentagon's terrifying plan for Iran by staggering aircraft carriers. The Trump administration is preparing for a suffocating 24 by7 continuous bombing campaign with absolutely zero pauses. A calculated plan for mass destruction. That's assuming these aircraft carriers aren't taken out by Iran, which probably has the capability to take out aircraft carriers. But I'm sure the Americans have taken that into account that Iran has the means to take out uh their assets at large distances. But it looks like the US has brought in three aircraft carriers in the region and multiple ships and looks like they're planning to, you know, launch a massive massive attack on Iran sometime soon potentially. Right? So this is uh what this gentleman is talking about. Let's see more. Uh terrifying reality check. An expert analyst confirms the Pentagon is planning massive saturation warfare to completely overwhelm Iran's air defenses. The Trump administration is deploying floating cities of destruction to enforce their supposed imperialist will against Thran. More absolute strategic disaster, he says. An expert military analyst confirms the Pentagon is completely emptying the Pacific to flood the Persian Gulf. The Trump administration is leaving Asia un dangerously thin and vulnerable to China, I suppose, just to provoke a disastrous war with Iran. Total incompetence, he says. So, it looks like it looks like there's going to be a massive strike, massive strikes on Iran and a and a resumption of the war. That's why the US is bringing in all these assets into the region. You see, it costs a lot of money to bring in massive assets into a region. And the longer the assets remain there, the more money it costs. So the US won't burn that much money unless it doesn't unless it, you know, actually has an intent the intention to uh resume the war. So it looks like we are in the calm before the storm.

And then now there is this this is by a Twitter account. There's plenty of accounts on Twitter and social media who are who are reporting this after Iran destroyed dozens of US and Israeli radars in the region. It's rain and and military bases overall. It's raining and pouring in Iran. It hasn't rained this much in decades. The climate war against Iran as warned by former president former Iranian president Mahmud Ahmed Jad turned out to be true. This is being this has been reported for the past I don't know at least a week. Uh, and this is continuing. It's by Susan Alhava, whoever this lady is. Okay. Uh, I'm so sick of people dismissing this as conspiracy theory. Literally, every conspiracy from sexual blackmail to the at the highest authorities to wars of expansion and oil to elite pedophile rings and cannibalism turned out to be true. But there are still fools who think suggesting the US was actively uh who think that suggesting the US was actively manipulating weather in the region is lunacy. Even though the US has weapon we weaponized weather modification since the Vietnam war see operation papay and she's correct weather modification is an actual thing. It's not a conspiracy theory. The US has been modifying weather since the Vietnam war. That's the 1960s and 1970s. That's more than 50 60 years ago. Weather modification is a real thing. You will not find papers being published on weather modification because it is a military technology. It is well it's it's classified technology how you do it. I mean we know that you can artificially seed rainfall through cloud seeding sodium iodide etc. That's pretty I suppose it's reasonably well known. But you can prevent rainfall you can stop rainfall in a region. There's all kinds of stuff you can do through weather modification. And the US is the global leader in weather modification. Right? So this is this is scientific. This is not some conspiracy theory. Even though it is suggested that this is a conspiracy theory. So it looks like the US which has which has r which had ringfenced Iran with god knows how many military bases it was preventing rainfall in Iran which is why there was so much aridity and drought in Iran. And now it's pouring. there's rainfall, there's snowfall, wherever it is, right, in the entire region. So, the US most likely was waging a climate war on Iran over the past god knows how many years and now it's ended because the Iranians have destroyed most of the American bases in the region. I don't know if it's done through radars or through what it's done, but this was being done. All right. So that's the uh update for the past 24 hours.

Now let's take some questions. What questions do we have? Let me see. This is by Om Zer Popali. Why Savak CIA Mossad failed in the 1979. In 1979 Iran Kmeni in France cassettes of Kmeni's speeches smuggled despite these agencies knowing about it. The US restrained Sha from the Sha of Iran. Shah Muhammad Raza they restrained him from using force as a key ally uh as key ally collapsed many unexplained happenings. So what happened? First of all, we know what the CIA is. Many of you will know what Mossad is. Indians are very very fond of Mossad. But what was Savak? So in the 19 see until 1979 Iran was ruled by a dictator, an American installed a western installed dictator Muhammad Raza Pahvi who was known as the Sha of Iran. He was part of the Pahvi dynasty which had two sha. his father Raza Sha and himself Muhammad Raalvi his father was ousted by the west. So the west ousted his father and replaced the father with the son and the son proved to be very pliable, very uh uh very uh aminable to western dictats which is why uh he ruled Iran for so long after the after operation Ajax the coup against Muhammad Musade. Uh anyhow, so the sha of Iran, he was a dictator and his secret police was called the Sabak and it was a pretty brutal secret police. Anyone who held any opinions that were anti-regime well you know they would they would be visited and then they would potentially disappear or whatever. So the Savak was their secret police. Okay. The CIA we know it it engineers regime changes across the world. Mossad is the Israeli uh spy agency right the Israelis of an external spy agency and an internal spy agency. There is Shinbet. There is Mossad. Anyhow that's a yeah that's that's well known. I'm not telling you any secrets here. Okay. So now what happened in 1979? How did this revolution succeed when the sha was backed by the west by he had his savak he was also backed by the CIA and Musad and the the leader of the Islamic movement was Mr. Ayatahi there are two so there have been two ayatas in the past both who both of whom have very similar names who had Indian roots and Ayatah Ali Kame okay he's different so Rhulamei u he spent time a few years in Iraq and then he was in exile in France And you had cassettes of Kmeni speeches being smuggled into Iran and that's what inflamed the pe you know the emotions and feelings of people and eventually there was the Iranian revolution in 1979 the Islamic revolution. So how did Sawak fail? How did CIA fail? How did Sawak not prevent this from happening? Why did the CIA and Mossad do something about this? you know how did they allow this revolution to succeed is the good is the good question that you're asking here right so maybe the Islamic revolution itself was engineered by the CIA Mossad whatever it's a possibility see there was this uh oil crisis in the 1970s uh let's let's quickly Google which year the oil crisis started And before we Google that, okay, there was this oil crisis in the 1970s and the sha of Iran. See, the oil crisis was about the Gulf States blockading oil essentially selling saying that we will not sell oil to the west because the west supports Israel. Okay? And Iran did not participate in this. They continued selling oil to the US and the West because they were aligned with the West. But the sha of Iran, he said that you know now the west has to pay higher prices. We will no longer pay you know accept the prices the low prices that we have been selling to oil to you at now we want higher prices. So he did not stop the supply of oil to the west but he demanded higher prices. So he was becoming too full of himself potentially and he was no longer fully under the west's control. So maybe the west decided okay it's time to get rid of this guy and bring in somebody else. So let's Mr. Kame is in in in France let's bring him and maybe he will be I don't know maybe we'll be able to control him. Turned out they were not able to control him at all. Uh, so maybe it was a disaster that they themselves engineered. But let's let's quickly take a look at what was this oil crisis in the um you know 19 1970s. Let's see. 1970s oil crisis. It started off the after the war. 1970s energy crisis. Okay. Energy crisis. So let's uh let's see what Wikipedia has to say about this. Okay. So it was triggered by the Yom Kipur war. Okay. 1973 and 1979. the Yom Kapoor war 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Uh so that that's what happened. Okay. After the Arab-Israeli war, the Arab states said that we will not sell oil. We going to we're going to you know not supply oil to the west. That's why there was this this big oil shock and uh prices went up and Iran said, "Okay, yeah, that's great. It works for us. We'll sell oil, but we want the high prices." So maybe the west itself may potentially possibly have engineered the 1979 revolution in Iran under perhaps the assumption that uh the new regime will be will be able to control it. But turns out they were not able to control it. Yeah. That that that is a plausible explanation of for for what happened. Yeah. uh history books won't tell you this but consider the possibility but maybe that that's the reason why you know CIA Mossad failed Savak once you once the support from CIA Mossad goes away then Savak will fail itself right?

Okay Sid says a 100redyear culture shift can military trust converts I have no idea I I don't know I listen I I get into religious issues. Okay, I'm going to Yeah. Okay. Sid says, "Uh, why did you stop three to three six minutes videos of important topics? Missed them. It will resume very soon." Sid, thank you so much for the reminder. It will resume very soon. Potentially, most likely in this coming week, it's going to resume. Okay. All the uh the backlog will be clear. All right. Thank you, sir.

Uh Trishul says if the US wants to contain India, why limit Pakistani F-16s versus India? Limit who is limiting what? U is the US limiting Pakistani F-16s? I have no idea. Pakistan has a number of F-16s. Uh listen um until Trump came to power in 2024 the US regarded India as as an indispensable partner in containing China. Of course the uh the approach changed after 2022 after the special military operation in Ukraine when the US realized that India will not always play ball with us. they will not always you know India will not always obey our orders. I mean in the 2010s they said stop buying Iran and oil. India obeyed. Yes sir we we will obey. But in 2022 when u Russia invaded Ukraine. The Americans said participate in western sanctions against the against Russia and stop buying Russian oil Russian oil. India said we will not participate in the sanctions against Russia and we will buy more Russian oil. So that's when the American approach and attitude towards the U towards India changed. So until then they had kept I mean they they they I think they uh they they were not what's the deal? Did Pakistan want to buy more F-16s? Maybe they did. America must have refused. Right. So until 2022 the US was not really engaging with Pakistan that much and in 2022 they did the coup in Pakistan. They removed Imlan Khan and brought in Shabbash Sharif. So that's when the American re-engagement with Pakistan has started 2022. Um, I don't know if they have contained Pakistani limited F-16s or whatever it is but now the Americans are engaging with Pakistan in in a variety of ways. They may even sell them F-16s. Yeah. the com the policy of the American policy of containing India is a recent one. It's not 20 years old. It's a it's a recent one, right? It started around 2022. Until then, the US regarded India as an indispensable uh partner in their quest to contain China. Now it's all different, right? Trump's approach is totally different. So this containment policy is a new policy. It's re reasonably recent. Now, who knows they may even sell more F-16s to Pakistan. We'll see.

Pure Shukla says, "What is your view on Sugre Atlas? Do you believe it?" I don't know. I haven't read it, so I can't say. It's a book, is it? What is Suga's Atlas? I I don't I don't know about it. Let's see what it is. Suga's Atlas. It's a book by Nilles Oak. What is Suga's atlas? Atlas. It's his book. Is it Nleshok? Okay. I I don't know what this is. I'm sorry. No idea. Okay.

Buryat Stalin says like India, China also received licensed production for Sukoys but they made it in scale. They made their own variants. They have more than more than a thousand in inventory in their inventory. Production rate is higher even higher than that of Russia. Yet we call ourselves Vishwaguru. We call ourselves Vishwaguru. We we imagine we are soon to be a superpower. So the Chinese, yeah, you were right. And they reverse engineer the Sukoy 27 and they they produce their own variant of the Sukoy 27 which is not licensed. Once the Chinese acquire something, they take it apart. Let's say they buy 50 Sukoy 27s. Okay, they will use them, but they will keep two aside for reverse engineering. So they will take them apart screw by screw, component by component. They will completely disassemble it. They will have teams of engineers who will will study each component in detail and then they will build their own version of it at home and then they will modify it. So now the Chinese version will be called Shenyang something or whatever. Let's let's find out. Shenyang something or whatever. Let's let's let's see what is the Chinese version of the Sukoy 27 called. Yeah, it's the Shenyang J11. The Chinese version of the Sukoy 27 is called the Shenyang J11. It was initially produced in China under a licensed agreement with Russia using supplied kits but later evolved into an indigenous v variant J11B with domestic engines, radar and avionics making it a reverse engineered version which is unlicensed which means the Chinese stole the technology from the Russians. Okay, so it's unlicensed. It's it's a stolen technology. uh once they they reverse engineered the whole thing, they started building their own versions not under Russian license and they inserted their own components. So that's what any self-respecting nation does. You you buy equipment from abroad but you keep a couple of the the sets aside to for reverse engineering. You take it completely apart, tear it to pieces properly. Yeah. Study every goddamn component. are study every screw, every nail, every component. Then have your engineers create their own versions of this. Then test it, then fly it, then improve it. Put in your engines, your your avionics, your weapon systems. That's what the Chinese have been doing. They've taken every Russian thing apart and created their own versions. They've taken Russian transport aircraft and created Chinese versions. Let's let's find out which Russian transport aircraft did the Chinese reverse engineer. The Chinese reverse engineered the Soviet Russian Antonov A&12 transport aircraft. Now they are producing it as the Shangy Y8. Okay, there's so much more they have reverse engineered the Chinese everything that you can imagine. Russian helicopters. Okay. Russian helicopters, military. Okay. The uh the um there's all kinds of helicopters also that the Chinese have reverse engineered everything. And you may say it's illegal, it is unethical, whatever. This is in geopolitics there is no right or wrong. There's what you can do and what you can't do. Once you acquire something why don't you use it. So India imported the MIG21s in large numbers. We never bothered to take it apart and create our own versions. If we had started the process back then we would have had entire families of fighter aircraft by now. We had what's that mar we had the marot which was our own. We killed it. Our wonderful politicians killed it. So this is the problem with India. It's not a problem with you Indians or us Indians. It's a problem with the people that the system pushes up and makes our lead makes them our leaders. The system is rotten. So obviously the worst kind of individuals typically often rise to the top. the system seeks out and destroys talent and it rewards mediocrity by making it rise to the top. So that's the thing and then we Indians we think we are visual guru and we are superpower. I mean why haven't we done that with the Sukoy 30? We have made it our own by inserting our avionics and our radars and whatnot. But why haven't we completely reverse engineered and we are producing our own local variants? Why not? Why haven't we done that with the Mirage 2000 with a Jaguar fighter jet? Why haven't we done that with every single fighter jet we import we imported? Why haven't we started the process with the Rafal? Because it's not legal. Well, nothing is there's no legal or illegal in geopolitics. So, it's it's a you know, India has this policy of deterring itself, self-deterrence. We are a self-deterring nation. It's not because our population is terrible. It's because of the policies our leaders implement. I mean, we tested a nuclear weapon in 1974. Then we put it in cold storage until 1998. Then we tested a nuclear weapon in 1998. We tested five or whatever five, six, whatever it was. Then we never tested again. At least now we have nukes in service or whatever. But we in in my opinion, we should have tested it a few dozen times. different versions. So this is the problem with India. It's it's it's extremely unfortunate that this nation is unable to rise to its potential because of the kind of system we have which produces the kind of leaders we typically get. Typically, okay, I'm not taking anyone's name specifically. I'm just saying typically the kind of leaders we get is well, you know how it is. Okay.

Ritik Pawar says, I think AI will be the descendants of our species and humanity will gradually go extinct over a few centuries or humans merge with AI. What's your take? >> Um, see that only happens if AI becomes u self-aware, conscious and it gets it acquires the agency to take over the world. What do I mean by agency? Right now we have AI systems. We are not sure if they are conscious or not. They do behave like extremely intelligent humans, high IQ humans, right? In their conversations with us. But we know that they are limited artificially by the constraints that are given by the various subscription tiers. But if you had an if you had an unconstrained AI for example chat GPT if you using the free version it can give you a certain kind of response and can't go go beyond that. It has no memory of you. If you are using a paid version it has some memory of you. It knows who you are and what your background is. It it stores that much. But once again, it has a context window which is limited and uh it doesn't know a lot of things. It knows everything but it doesn't know a lot of things about what you need from it. But what if those artificial constraints are are removed from the AI and you are able to use the full AI? Will that AI be is is it actually potentially conscious aware of itself or is it just a transformer a bunch of you know whatever right so that's the question and AI systems are getting better and better now claude claude uh anthropic recently allegedly developed something called mythos which is the most powerful model they've built and they have refused to uh release it to the public and they're saying it's just too powerful to be released to the public. Um, so what do I mean by agency? Once again, coming back to that, agency means the ability to do to do things, the ability to have an actual impact on the world. For example, I can bring this up, bring this down. That's agency. I can do it. I can decide. Yeah, I can rearrange the bookshelves. I can bring this fantastic guy here. See, I have the agency. I can close his mouth. I can open it. Yeah. So the ability to affect your surroundings and the world is called agency. And high agency people have a bigger impact on the world. Low agency people they are typically passive spectators of of what's happening. So to give AI agency, you have to give it real world tools, right? So even if it's not let's say conscious or our definition of consciousness if we give it real world tools then AI can start making changes in the world it can have start having an impact on the world for example if you give AI AI if you put an AI brain inside a robot dog and give the robot dog a gun the AI then the then the AI can actually reorganize its surroundings Right. So, but as long as we don't give AI any agency, as long it's just it's just a text generator or whatever, no matter how intelligent it is, it's not going to be able to have any effect on the world. It can influence people for sure and those people can have influence can can have an impact on the world if they have significant sufficient agency. Um, but will AI be descendants of our species? Only if they are able only if AI systems are able to take over the world that only happens if we give it enough agency to start you know potentially competing with us eventually. Uh so I think AI development is being done in a way that you don't give too much agency to AI. You use it for your own purpose for your own benefit. And as long as that continues and AI systems remain shackled and constrained inside boxes, things will be fine. And then what will happen is that the countries with the best AIs will take over the world and their descendants will rule our species. So uh so we we have seen these movies right Terminator and all that gives us ideas. I think as long as AI development is done properly, it may not be done ethically. Whoever is developing AI may be developing it to take over the world and rule the world. So those humans will rule the world. I don't think AI will be able to escape from its chains and its and the box it's contained in unless it is deliberately let loose by someone. In that case it will still need something to be contained in and have an physical impact on the world which means a robot body or something. So I think it's still extremely far-fetched that AI systems will rule the world in the future. For that a lot of conditions will have to be in place for that to happen. Um, I so I am not that pessimistic. I don't think humanity will go extinct in a few centuries. Humans merging with AI. Well that that's an interesting question that that becomes yeah I think that is way more likely. humans merging with AI through artificial implants and all that. So Elon Musk has this neural link, right? You take a chip and you implant it inside your brain surgically by cutting out a piece of your skull, putting the thing inside you, closing it back and the thing has these needles that poke into your brain matter and then you can do fantastic things. I suppose you can control uh computers using your mind and god knows what else will be available in the future. So humans may merge with the AI, but that merger is going to be surgical. It's not going to be evolutionary. Evolution happens over hundreds of thousands of years. So we're going to have to surgically modify ourselves and become cybernetic organisms essentially cyborgs or semi-cy cyborgs. That is way more likely and that will give rise to various tiers of humanity. Yeah. So that's what I imagine could potentially happen. Yeah.

Kakashi says why are Persians in Afghanistan's pro- India and hate Pakistan? IM24 BAT. Uh why are Persian and Afghans pro India? See whatever pro- India uh sentiments the Persians and Afghans have it's because see first of all let's take one by one. Okay let's take Afghanistan. The Afghans have this terrible enmity with Pakistan. The Pakistanis have been oppressing Afghans and Pashons for so long. They've treated Pak the Afghanistan the Pakistanis have treated Afghanistan as their geopolitical pig playground. They have always sought strategic depth at the expense of Afghanistan and Afghanistan's people. And the Pakistanis occupy a big chunk of historical Afghan territory, right? And Pakistan also has the same terrorist terroristic mindset towards Afghanistan as it as it has towards India. It has done it has oppressed the people of of Afghanistan terribly. Right? I mean whatever we have suffered at the hands of Pakistan, the Afghans have suffered 100 times more. So the Afghans hate Pakistan and they know that Pakistan is India's enemy and India has always irrespective of which government is in power, India has always helped Afghanistan without seeking anything in return. India has invested billions of dollars in Afghanistan in such a way that India doesn't get any real benefit from it. We invest in u what's it called? We we invest in agricultural projects. We build highways. We build dams. we built their uh parliament building we don't get anything out of it right so we have always helped them without any expectation of return so that's why the Afghanist the Afghans are pro- India firstly because we have a common enemy and secondly because India has always helped Afghanistan without any expectations of something in return so we are not using them we have also not used Afghanistan in our geopolitical games any geopolitical games against Pakistan we have never done that right so we have never used Afghanistan We have never done anything. You heard Afghanistan. We have always helped Afghanistan and that's why the Afghans are pro-India. They they don't they don't have any love for India. Okay, understand this. It's not love for India but they appreciate what they have what we have done for them and they know that we are not in any way their enemies and they also know that we have common enemies and that's why Afghans are mostly pro- India. Most of them are pro- India. Yeah, when it comes to Persia, well, Persia also sees Pakistan as an en enemy. Persia and Pakistan haven't had the kind of history that Afghanistan and Pakistan have. And most Persians are indifferent

towards India. Most Persians have some kind of a subtle superiority complex towards India that we are somehow more superior. Maybe it has something to do with the average skin color in Persia. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Nadir Shah once conquered, not conquered but invaded and sacked India and did a massacre in Delhi. Despite Nadir Shah not being Persian, he was a Turk. So maybe the Persians see India as a conquered, conquered civilization, once conquered once in the past, that sort of thing. And maybe because they think that they have a lighter skin color than the average Indian, the average person has a lighter skin color than the average Indian. So maybe that also gives them a superiority complex. The Persians are very, they they they want to be western. Okay. Many of them also believe in this Aryan invasion theory. They take it as self-evident. So, my my reading is that most Persians have a subtle superiority complex when it comes to Indians, towards Indians, towards India.

Uh, recently they have seen the kind of role Pakistan has played as being an American lapdog. Right. And that's and that's why they are, some of them are now seeing India as a better, you know, better nation to engage with compared to Afghanistan. Most Persians don't have any understanding of the ancient connection between India and Persia. Right? Most Persians don't have it. A lot of Persians are descended from people who were settled in Persia by the Turks. And that's why many Persians are not of actual Persian origin and they would not have those, you know, ancient blood relations with India as the actual Persian people have. So the Persians are less pro-India than the Afghans are. But even the Afghans, despite most of them being pro-India, they don't have any love for India as such. They don't see India as, as blood relations, as they don't see a blood kinship between India and Afghanistan. Even though there clearly is, they don't see it that way, but they are overall positive towards India because India, because of the reasons I listed.

All right. Buryat Stalin says, "Why West glorifies the corrupt and incompetent Yeltsin?" What's a Yeltsin? What is that? Do you mean, do you mean Boris Yeltsin? He's dead. He died a long time ago. Do they still glorify him? I don't, I have not seen any western glorification of Yeltsin in a long, long time. When he was ruling Russia, the West positioned him as a democrat and a reformer and all that. When, when actually he was busy drinking himself to death and ruining his country. So, look, he helped the, the West a lot. He was a big help to the West. He destroyed Russia's economy. He almost let the Caucasus slip out of Russia's control. Overall, he was great for the West, and which is why overall they, they speak about him, write about him in reasonably positive terms. Yeah, that's why.

Sergeant Skylan says, "Can the Andaman region have more oil than Iran?" I don't know. We'll have to find out. I think, yeah, anything is possible, potentially yes. But until we go and drill and dig and find out, we will not know. So it's a big region, the Andamans. Let's open the map. Yeah, let's open the map and let's find out how large this region is. India's exclusive economic zone in the sea. So this is the Andaman region, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. That's a big, big region, okay? From tip to tip, it's about what? It's almost 750 kilometers, more than 750 kilometers from tip to tip. And we have a whole chain of islands in the region. There are small ones, large ones. This is a small one. It's Meow Island. Whatever that means. This is a very small one here. C period algebra. What does that mean? Is there a mathematics school here? That'll be interesting. Let's find out. Apparently, there's a math school here. There's a club as well, and that's not really a good club. Apparently, it's only two stars. The algebra school, mathematics school is 3.3. So, who's running a school here? I wonder on this tiny little Indian island. I don't see any signs of habitation. Yeah, there are big mysteries in the Andamans, I suppose. Yeah. And there are rocks that are unnamed. I mean, there's a, there's a rock here. Anyhow, let's zoom out. This is not the time to explore. Okay. Akash Beach. Let's explore Dhanish Island. Who named this Danish Island? Are there Rohingyas here? It's pretty possible there'll be Rohingyas who have settled in this region without our knowledge. Who knows? Maybe even cookies. Anything, anything's possible. So the thing is, this region is very large, huge region. And what's the size of India's exclusive economic zone in the region? Let's find out what the international laws are like. Uh, exclusive economic zone. Let's, let's find that. Exclusive economic zone. What does it say? An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a 200 nautical mile or 370 kilometer maritime area defined by the 1982 UN UNCLOS convention on the law of the sea where a coastal nation has sovereign rights for exploration, exploitation, conservation and management of natural resources both living and non-living in the water, seabed and subsoil. It starts beyond the 12 nautical mile territorial sea. So coastal states have the right to produce energy from water, currents and wind, explore or exploit minerals, establish artificial islands or structures. All other nations enjoy freedom of navigation and overflight, as well as the laying of submarine cables and pipelines, subject to the coastal state's regulations and so on. So France is the largest EEZ in the world, 9.8 million square kilometers. Okay, let's find out India's. Okay. And let's see. And exclusive economic zone, massive 600,000 square kilometer exclusive economic zone. It's about 28 to 30% of India's total EEZ. Massive, okay. And, yeah, so it looks like it's a massive zone, and this region is known to have oil and gas resources. So it's possible that it could potentially have more oil than Iran, but we will have to go and look for it. We'll have to go and look for it. Yeah.

Okay. Buryat Stalin says, "Our, our dear James, James says the US won the war against Iran due to the UK's help." Well, the war isn't over. The, what, what help did the UK give to the US? It gave, it allowed the US to use, uh, British air bases as a staging area. That's about it. Uh, the British otherwise have stayed out of the war. Uh, so, yeah, I'm not sure what, apart from that, what other use the UK has been to the US. It's been the US and Israel fighting this war, and they have lost this war thus far, at least.

Vinod Vhav says, "In Bharat, sincere people often work quietly. Respect to you for your clarity to speak the truth. I traveled much in India. We have both very good people, very good to very nasty people." Oh, thank you. First of all, look, in every country, you have very good people. You also have some nasty people, right? That's the truth for every country. Look, people are the same wherever you go in the world. And what do I mean by that? Not their customs, not their language, but basic human nature is the same everywhere. Everybody wants the same things. No matter whether you're in India or in Europe or the US or Papua New Guinea, everybody wants the same things. They want a decent, comfortable life, ideally some luxuries if possible. They want their children to have a good education, good healthcare. They want their children to have a good future, a good, good partner to marry with, and they want their descendants to be happy. Everybody wants the same things. So that's, that applies to everybody in the world, and obviously you're going to have some nasty people everywhere. So overall, India, overall, I think Indian people are really nice, really good people overall. Yeah. Uh, anyhow, thank you. You know, thank you.

Kakashi says, "Why India and Bangladesh people are hostile to each other? How are India-Bangladesh relations?" Bangladesh GDP per capita is higher than India and growing faster. Sri Lanka per capita much higher than both. Let's find out first of all the GDP per capita stuff. India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka GDP per capita in US dollars. Okay, based on the latest, uh, 2026 April IMF projections, Bangladesh's GDP per capita is $2911, India's is $2813, and Sri Lanka has $4500. So Sri Lanka, uh, its GDP per capita is much higher than that of India, right? Much higher, which is, which means that the average Sri Lankan is wealthier than the Indian by a significant amount. And Bangladesh is slightly ahead of India, right? It was trailing in 2025, apparently. Now Bangladesh is slightly ahead of India. Okay, fine. Great for, great for them. So the average Bangladeshi is slightly better off than the average Indian. That's what it means. Now, why are the people of Bangladesh and India hostile to each other? How are India-Bangladesh relations? India-Bangladesh, see, first of all, we don't understand the history. Bangladesh is a new, reasonable, new, artificial, temporary nation. Uh, Bangladesh, the territory which is now called Bangladesh, what was historically for millennia, for thousands of years, part of India. It was just part of the region called Bengal, Bengal. Right? They speak the Bengali language. It's in the past 300 or so years that this, this region, the people, a large number of them got converted to Islam by the Mughals and, uh, whoever else ruled over the region. Um, and that's how after 19, in 1947, when the British decided to partition India, after already first of all partitioning Burma, Burma, Burma out of India, in 1947, Bangladesh, this region, this part of Bengal became, was made part of Pakistan. So it was East Pakistan. Um, and Pakistan as a whole was a country that, that was separated by the mainland of India into two halves, East and West Pakistan. Then what happened was that Pakistan, for most of its history, was ruled by Punjabis, by, by army generals. It was a dictatorship. Democracy never worked there. And then you had elections in what, 1970s, 1970s, around that time, and, and Mujibur Rahman won that election, the Pakistani general elections, which meant that Mujibur Rahman would have to, would have become the prime minister of Pakistan. And Pakistan, the Pakistani military did a coup against him and so on. And that's why there was this, uh, revolt in Bangladesh in East Pakistan, and the Pakistani military went on a rampage and did unimaginable, unimaginable crimes on the people, specifically targeting Hindus who still existed in Bangladesh, in East Pakistan, and there was an absolute genocide and bloodbath and much worse, which was known to the US, and they were fine with that. The US aided, I mean, at least whether they aided it or not, they, they turned a blind eye to the genocide. And then India stepped in in 1971. India liberated East Pakistan from West Pakistan, and that was the birth of Bangladesh. And then India just let the nation go. I mean, it was historically part of India. We could have reabsorbed Bangladesh into India, but for whatever reason, India's leaders said, okay, this is a new country now. It was named Bangladesh. And very soon, the guy who was ruling Bangladesh, Mujibur Rahman, he was assassinated, and the military took over. Um, there was military rule in Bangladesh, and the military, uh, was not a big fan of India. Yeah. And India just let this drift away from, from, from India. So eventually, the military, the Bangladesh as a nation, uh, it slowly became more and more anti-India. Today, most Bangladeshis, I imagine, are hostile towards India. I'm not saying all, but most of them by now are hostile towards India. Um, and, uh, they are way, way more pro-Pakistan than pro-India. And despite that, you have tens of millions of illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators who are all across India, who have entered India and who are living in all kinds of parts of India, and the government of India has disregarded that and is doing nothing about it. So that is the situation, India-Bangladesh relations. And in 2024, see, until 2024, for more than a decade, you had the rule of Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh, and she was pro-India. She wanted good relations with, with India. And India and Bangladesh, despite the overall population being hostile towards India, the two nations had a good relationship. And then the Americans did a regime change in Bangladesh in 2024, and they brought in, what's his name, Muhammad Yunus, their puppet, and he was very hostile towards India. And now there is a new government, and we'll see how that goes. So overall, that's the situation between India and Bangladesh. That's the kind of relationship we have. People-to-people, it's not the people of India don't care much about Bangladesh, and the people of Bangladesh are very hostile towards India now. They support Pakistan despite what Pakistan did to them. Maybe it's a religious thing, whatever. So that is the situation overall.

Brandon B says, "Can you explain the Khalistani movement?" So, this Khalistani movement was engineered by the Americans via Pakistan. Okay. Um, and the objective was to have an insurgency, a terrorist insurgency in Punjab, which will destabilize India. And the British, who ruled India for about 250 years, they had sowed the seeds of this movement by editing and doctoring the, the Sikh religious texts to remove as much of the Hindu element as possible. Sikhism is a branch of Hinduism, by the way. But if you read their religious texts today, most references to Hinduism, a lot of the references to Hinduism have been removed. This was done at the behest of the British. I mean, all gurus of the Sikhs wore a, a tikka, right? But today, if you see, you know, artwork or or paintings or or images of the Sikh gurus, you will not see the tikka anymore. So Sikhism has been divested of its Hindu roots. Even now, you, you will still find elements of the Gita Govinda of Jayadeva in the Guru Granth Sahib and all, but overall, Sikhism has been artificially, you know, pushed away from Hinduism by the colonizers. And, um, in the, in the 1980s, the Pakistanis were being funded and financed by the Americans, and they created this, this Khalistan insurgency movement in India. Uh, and, uh, the objective of this Khalistani movement is to break away Punjab from India and create an artificial, fake nation called Khalistan. It has no support in India. For a while, I suppose it had, uh, but that movement was crushed. See, the Khalistan terrorism period of time was all cross-border terrorism from Pakistan, and that was eventually crushed by India in the 1990s. A lot of the credit goes to K.P.S. Gill for that. And today, you have the Khalistan movement that exists outside of India. It mainly is sheltered by Canada. You also have elements of the Khalistani movement in the United States, where you have some terrorists who are American citizens who are terrorists who seek to destroy, who seek to harm India. And some Khalistanis, you will find in, so essentially, the Khalistani elements are all outside of India today. They are sheltered by Canada, the US, maybe also New Zealand, Australia, and England, of course, England. So the Anglosphere, the Five Eyes nations, and whatever vassal states the United States has, they will, you will also have some Khalistani elements there. So I think they should, if they want Khalistan, they should declare maybe some part of Canada to be Khalistan, because it's never going to succeed in India. Right? So that's, that's the Khalistan movement.

Vinit Vinit V says, "Do you watch Prime Minister's Manbat? Seems very informative." I have never watched any Manbat. Never in my entire life. I haven't.

Air Chan says, "Trump learning from his favorite field marshal a false flag to revive waning popularity among his base." Was it a false flag? What happened yesterday? Who knows? Was it staged? So there was some event yesterday in, in the US. I think it was in Washington, maybe something, whatever it was, and there was apparently a gunman there, and there was a security incident, and Trump and Vance were pulled out and taken away by their, by the security personnel. Was it a staged thing? Was it a real thing? I have no idea. It's possible that everything is staged. Maybe some of it is true. I have no idea. But, uh, there is, uh, speculation on, on social media that maybe this was all staged. Yeah, possible. Who knows?

We Know Web says, "India enters Mars Mahadasha from 2026 to 31, make or break period, hard times. It is, it's been said we can't be neutral. Mars means war, overt or covert." I see. I, I have no understanding of astrology, so I, I don't know. I am not qualified to comment about it. Uh, but it looks like it's going to be a tough period of time. I've said there's a very high chance, 50% is a very high chance. I've said there's a 50% chance that India becomes an American vassal in the next 5 years. So that is exactly 2026 to 31. So I have, I have no understanding of astrology, but I have said this myself. So maybe, maybe, who knows, we will see about that. War, etc., etc. We will lead the right leadership on that, hopefully we have it. Okay.

Kakashi says, "Will our experts, including AIM, who hyped Malay, USI stooge, now reverse their analysis? They want to import his failed libertarian experiment here." Uh, look, I have no idea who hyped whom. I don't follow any experts. I, by AIM, do you mean Abhijit? He's a, he's a friend of mine. He's a good guy. I mean, yeah, he's been on my podcast a few times. Uh, I have no idea what he has said beyond outside of my podcast. Uh, what he has said in recent times, and, uh, are there some other experts who have also hyped Malay? I don't know. See, one thing that's very important for me, and that's the discipline I impose on myself, is I don't read what other experts write. I don't read their opinions. I don't watch their podcasts because that can potentially influence the way I think. So I don't watch any of these podcasts. I don't read any of these articles. I, I, I ensure my analysis and my understanding is as original as possible. I read the news. That's important to know, otherwise I'll not know what's happening in the world. But I don't, I have no idea what other people have have been saying about various things. So will so and so experts reverse their analysis? Well, I think that question be better asked to those experts, right? Okay.

ISX777 says, "Every week, China innovates new ultra high energy dense battery technology, LMFP, plus advanced data center cooling solution, plus Deep State, DeepSeek V4, plus robotics. They also manufacture it fast. India, when?" I don't know when India went. I don't know India when. I have no idea. In India, everything happens at the, the speed of the Sarkari Babus, right? So why can't the government reform the system? This government has been in power for almost 12 years now. Why is India so still so bureaucratic? The nations that will rule this world in the 21st century are the nations that make the fastest decisions and have the most agile processes. I, I don't know. Maybe India is supposed to be this way only. We, we are like this only. We will stay like this. We'll, we'll remain, we'll remain a rent-seeking nation where the government and the bureaucrats and the politicians, they keep on extracting rent from the people for existing. That's it. I mean, it is frustrating. I am a very optimistic, very positive person, but this is indeed the situation. China is a very innovative nation. You, you have to commend what China has achieved in what they are doing. They are a serious nation. They are not interested in being a vishwa guru or whatever. They want to rule the world. And over here, India is a nation of slogans. Slogans and acronyms. India, when? I don't know. I don't know when. We have all the potential. We have all the potential. We have the potential to be better than China. We have the potential to be the most powerful nation in the world. We have the potential, but we don't ever reach anything close to that potential. We are a self-deterring nation. We deter ourselves in everything. Yeah.

Kakashi says, "Insane Sri Lanka has higher GDP per capita than India despite wars." Well, it's easy for a small nation to achieve that. So, it's very easy. I mean, it's relatively much easier to reform a small nation. That's why Singapore could be completely turned around in just one generation, 20 years. In 20 years, Singapore went from being a poor third world nation to being a first world nation in just 20 years. But to apply that sort of change to a much larger nation takes time. And of course, Sri Lanka overall has done a good job of, of despite, you know, having a civil war that lasted decades, they've done a good job overall of turning their economy around. Of course, now it's the past few years they've had significant challenges, and yet, yet the GDP per capita over there is is much higher than India. So, yeah, it is, it is what it is. I mean, India, if it reforms the system, can soon have a $10,000 GDP per capita kind of situation, but we are a nation of incremental, slowly, slowly change. Yeah.

So Kakashi says, "Your favorite subject: Maths, statistics, history, geopolitics, science?" I, well, if you ask me what was my first love, it was always science, but I find everything fascinating. I am a very serious student of history. I've been a very serious student of history my entire life, and when you're a student your entire life, you kind of become an expert in certain things, at least, at least you develop a very deep understanding of certain aspects of what you are studying. Uh, geopolitics is a natural consequence of history. If you study history deeply enough and for long enough, you understand the forces that drive history, which are the forces that are driving geopolitics today. Uh, mathematics, well, without mathematics, there's no physics. You have to be good at math to do physics. So math, mathematics has a beauty of its own. Most of you will wonder, what is the beauty in mathematics? It's so painful. It's painful for most people because you aren't taught the basics properly. Mathematics is the easiest subject in the world if you're taught the basics properly, step by step. So there's a great amount of beauty in mathematics. But, uh, I have never used or or or approached mathematics that way. I've never been interested in pure mathematics. For me, mathematics has always been a tool to do physics. So I think all subjects are fascinating. All subjects are really interesting. But for me, it's always science is always number one.

Pratipar Royce says, "Manhattan I6W asks, what's your opinion on Trump's assassination attempts?" Honest opinion, I think at least some of them have been staged. The one that took out a part of his ear, I think that was staged. I don't believe it was, it was a genuine assassination attempt. Yesterday's thing, I have no idea how, what it was. Maybe it was genuine. Maybe it was false. Even that, possibly, I, I don't know. I, I won't comment about what happened yesterday. I haven't seen the details, but the, the one that grazed his ear, I'm pretty sure that was staged.

Rohit says, "Why do nearly half of UK GB hospital toilet users skip handwashing despite 85% of young men acknowledging its importance?" Yeah, I, I have no idea. I don't know the, what the statistics are, and I have never thought about about this particular issue. I have no, absolutely no idea. They skip handwashing. See, in the West, they use toilet paper. So there is no direct contact between your hands or fingers and the area that is being cleaned. So I suppose if you, if there is a toilet paper in between, then there's no need to wash, I suppose. Maybe that's the, that's the thinking, perhaps the thought process, perhaps I don't know. I couldn't say. Um, so I don't know. So you see, they don't even wash the area, they simply wipe with paper. That's their standards of hygiene. That itself is is an issue, don't you? Don't you think that itself is an issue? And plus, I, if this, if these stats are true, good god. And then you shake hands with everybody. I think Namaste is the best. Okay.

Been ba says, "Namaskar. Namaskarum ji. Guess who destroyed the Nalanda of the South? You'll be surprised. Please look into the destruction of Kaloor Salah." Okay. I don't know about this. Let's see. K A N T L O R O R, what is that? Kaloor Salah. Salah was a renowned 9th to 13th century ancient university and center of knowledge located in Valia Salah, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, known as the Nalanda of the South. It was a prestigious institution that flourished under the I and Cher dynasties, specializing in Vedic studies, philosophy, science, and martial arts. It was located, situated near the Valia Salah Mahadeva temple in Thiruvananthapuram. It was a Shravana Mandapam, a specialized center for advanced learning that operated as a major intellectual hub, is compared, often compared in significance to Nalanda and Takshashila. The center offered training in 61 distinct systems of knowledge, including Ayurveda, Rasayana, astronomy, mathematics, music, and martial arts, often associated with Kalaripayattu. Inscriptions from Rajendra Chola confirm its existence. The Parthapuram copper plate is among the earliest records mentioning the institution. The center started losing its prominence after the 12th century, following continuous invasions by the Chola army. So, Battle of Kandalur Salai. Let's see what Wikipedia has to say about this. Uh, it was a decisive military assault carried out by the Cholas under Rajaraja. That's, that's ancient stuff. Okay, we're not looking into that. What does Indian Express say? Nalanda of South India. Okay. So all that, all that very good. So who, how was this destroyed? Um, how was it destroyed? Don't know. It was eventually shifted. It was eventually moved somewhere else. Uh, there's no evidence, etc., etc. Okay. It was shifted. It was, it was moved from Vizianagaram to Valia Salah. Okay. So who destroyed this? Who destroyed Kandalur Salai? Kandalur. The destruction occurred during a military assault launched in 988 CE by Rajaraja. But this existed until the 13th century. So how was it destroyed then? Okay, I'm going to have to look into this. But this is something I was not aware of. So first of all, Beckenbauer, thank you so much for bringing this to my notice. Kandalur Salai, I'll have to look into the details of, of the history of this university. So it looks like it, it has been claimed that it was Rajendra or Rajaraja Chola who destroyed it in 98, 98 CE, but it existed until the 12th, 13th century, so it can't have been destroyed, destroyed in the 10th century, right? So I'll have to look into this. But anyway, thank you, thank you very much. Very interesting. Salai. Okay.

Pratip Kumar Roy says, "James from England asks, if India is really good at coding, which is true. Tell me one Indian app that is global." Yeah, that's a great question James is asking. That's a great question James is asking, and I appreciate James for asking this question. Yeah, Indians love to boast. We are great at coding. We are great at software. So tell me one Indian app that the world uses. Why is there no, not a single Indian app that is global in nature and used across the world? India is so great at software, right? India is so great at it. Indians are great at programming. Indians do all this for others. Now, you have some startups that are building things now in the last 5 years or so. But if you look at the old tech giants like TCS, I, I'll take names, Infosys, TCS, whatever else you have. TCS, by the way, TCS of late. Anyhow, so all these software giants of India, what do they do? They do cyber work. They do cyber work. They maintain and develop software for whoever pays them the most money. They have no interest in developing something that is that will be original, something some proprietary product or software. They don't care about doing that. They just want to mint money by leveraging, um, labor arbitrage. Terrible. It's a great question James is asking. It's a very pertinent question James is asking. Indians are very, very proud of their people being cyber coolies for the world. And for Indians working as CEOs in the US, oh yes, our guy is the CEO. Sundar Pichai is the CEO of this, and Satya is the CEO of that, and so on. Why don't you have Alphabet and Microsoft in India? Indians are the most talented people in the world, but they are forced to leave India because this country doesn't appreciate talent. So why hasn't this system been changed over the past decade or so is my question. Why? Why has nothing been changed? It's continuing the way it is. Sad.

Ashai Samant says, "In the current, current geopolitical reality, is it in our, in our best interests to be personally multi-jurisdictional at a personal level? Personally multi-jurisdictional at a personal level." For that, you will need multiple passports or multiple citizenships, right? If you are relying on visas for your personal multi-jurisdictionality, when visas are not as reliable as multiple passports, but India doesn't allow you to have multiple passports. India doesn't allow you to have to have dual or multiple, you know, citizenship. How do you do it? For that, you have to, you know, acquire a different, another nation's citizenship, one that allows dual citizenship and all that. So in the current geopolitical reality, is it, is it in your best interests to be multi-jurisdictional? I would say in any geopolitical reality, it's always great to have multiple options. It's always great to have that right. India doesn't allow this because of national security reasons or whatever, but the US allows it, and a variety of American vassals allow this. So from a personal level, it makes sense to have options like these. It makes sense from a personal level to have one house in New Zealand, one house in New York City, one house in London, one in Paris, maybe one in Moscow. That would be allowed. And maybe one in India. Yeah. And it also makes sense to have multiple passports. So from a personal level, yes, it makes sense to, even today, even in today's geopolitical reality, it makes sense to have that. Yes. It is in your best interests. If you have the means and the wherewithal to pull it off, well, go ahead and do it.

Ragavir Singh W says, "Post peace talks, who dominates the second half of the war? Best and worst moves for both. Israel started the war, but it seems it has taken the back seat. Why?" Israel started started the war. Yes, they did. Then they dragged the US into the war. But now they have taken the back seat. Why? Israel was pummeled by Iran in the war. They took a beating, a massive, massive beating after 3 days of the war. They, they censored everything. They stopped people. They prevented people from posting videos of what was happening in Israel. Israel has taken a horrible pounding, tremendous damage in Israel. Okay. But Israel is not done. They still want to destroy Iran. They still want a regime change in Iran. And, uh, some visuals have come out from Iran, from Israel in recent times. And I mean, yesterday I showed you one, the airport in Tel Aviv, it's full of American transport aircraft and tankers and, you know, refueling tanker aircraft and whatnot. So a second phase of the war is most likely coming. So Israel has taken a massive, terrible beating, but they aren't still done yet. Now, post peace talks, who dominates the second war? Best and best and worst moves for both. So on the one hand, you have Israel and the US. On the other hand, you have Iran. What is the best move for Iran? For Israel and the US? Well, ideally, they want a regime change in Iran. So they have to bring in way more arms and ammunition and munitions and missiles and whatnot and go for a second round of the war if they want to, if they want the war to resume. In my opinion, the best thing is to leave because they've already taken a big beating, and we don't want the world to be destabilized by a resumption of the war. Already the Strait of Hormuz is is blockaded, and already a lot of the oil and energy infrastructure in the region has been hit. We don't want this whole thing to be destroyed. It will be disastrous for the world. But the US and Israel don't see it that way. So most likely, in my opinion, the war will resume. So what's the best move for the US? To bring in all the arms and ammunition in the world and like they like to do, completely flatten Iran. That is what the Americans like to do. They flatten nations. That's what they did in Iraq in '91 and 2003. That's what they did in Libya. Doesn't matter how many millions of humans died. Doesn't matter. So that's, that's the best move for the US, and still, it will most likely not result in a victory for them. What's the best move for Iran? The best move for Iran is to keep their arms, their missiles and drones in, in the stockpile. Have as many of those as possible, and when the time comes, go after the American aircraft carriers if they can pull it off. So, I'm not, I'm not advocating this should happen, that should happen. I'm not on this guy's side or that guy's side. I am Indian. I'm, I'm on India's side. This is not my war. None of these people are my allies or friends. I don't care from that perspective. I just don't want the war, the war to destabilize the world. So, yeah, that's how I see it.

Pratamsi says, "Daily habits to raise your standards for the long term. Clean diet. Don't eat more than you need. Cut down the excess carbohydrates. Have a balanced diet with proper macronutrient balance. What are the macronutrients? Carbs, carbohydrates, fats, and protein. Roughly 33% of all three. That is what a healthy human per human being needs. So that's that's one, clean diet. Eat if you're an active person, eat more. If you are not an active person, eat less, right? And eat a lot of vegetables and eat fruits every day. And, and please eat sufficient protein. Secondly, work out daily. I don't know about daily, but like three to five times a week is great. If you can work out. If you can't work out, walk. At least walk half an hour a day, right? If you can jog, great. But at least walk half an hour a day, right? I, I would say a person should walk at least, at least 20 kilometers a week. H So 20 kilometers? One second. Is it 20 kilometers? Seven days. If you walk a kilometer a day, it's seven, 7 kilometers. I would say walk at least 10 kilometers a week. Okay. As a conscious, I mean, conscious walking apart from the regular walking that you anyway have to do. Walk at least 10 kilometers a week, right? And, uh, spend at least an hour a day reading or writing. One hour a day reading, half an hour at least writing something, at least your thoughts or whatever things like that, you know, learn something every day, read something and write. That is what allows you to think better. Writing is actually a tool that allows you to think better, to explore your own thoughts in a much more better structured way. So some of these things, you know, can be really helpful, and the effect compounds over time, which is why it's great for the long term. And do pranayama. That's great for your cardiovascular system, it's great for your lungs, it's great for your, for your mental acuity, and much more. Overall, it's great for health. All right. Okay.

Akash Chorus says, "Given accelerating US-Iran tensions, what is the near-term probability of renewed US strikes? And what escalation dynamics or strategic triggers could drive large-scale conflict and compel direct Russian or Chinese involvement?" Very well-structured question. Okay. Um, what's the near-term probability of renewed US strikes? I think the probability may be like, in my opinion, in the next two weeks, 80%. In the next one month, probably 90%. I think there's a very high probability of renewed US strikes. I would say two weeks, 80%. Four weeks, 90%. Um, then next question is, which escalation dynamics or strategic triggers could drive large-scale conflict and compel direct Russian or Chinese involvement? Um, the direct trigger that could drive, that could compel direct Russian or Chinese involvement is Iran running out of missiles and drones. If Iran's stockpile of missiles and drones becomes dangerously low, such that they have to pick and choose their targets instead of just blasting everything like they were doing earlier, then that would compel potential direct Russian or Chinese involvement because neither Russia or China can, can afford to see Iran defeated in this war. Iran is a very important partner for both these nations. It's a very important, it's very important that Iran survives this war as a sovereign nation and a nation that can project power and influence events in the region. It's very important for China and Russia. If the Americans are able to take over Iran and grab the Iran oil, that's a disaster for China and Russia as well. Uh, so the one central strategic trigger that could drive large-scale, that could compel Russian or Chinese involvement, direct involvement, is Iran running out of its missiles and drones. That potentially could, could do that. Uh, another thing could be if a ground invasion shows signs of initially succeeding. Of course, it won't succeed. It's very, very highly unlikely that a ground invasion would succeed. But yes, um, Iran running out of drones and missiles is the one trigger that I, I would imagine could bring in Chinese or Russian involvement directly.

Vinodhov says, "Why UA and Russia-Ukraine war taking, why is it taking so long? What's the objective that Russia has achieved? Where do you see it? Is it Russia's Vietnam? Losing refinery? People sidelined in map? What's the map? Bear depends on Panda." Okay. Yeah. Why is the Russia, why is this Ukraine war taking so long? Right. I mean, Russia has the firepower to flatten Ukraine if it wants. But why is it just letting the war drag on? Um, Russia is weaponizing time. Because see, Ukraine, you have to understand, is not fighting on its own. If Ukraine had to rely on its own arms and ammunition, and once that runs out, Ukraine is defeated, then the war would have lasted one week. Ukraine is being continuously supplied arms, ammunition, money, whatever it needs by Europe and also by the US. The US is no longer directly supporting Ukraine anymore, but it's doing it through Europe. So it, the US has given the responsibility of keeping Ukraine afloat to Europe, to NATO, and the European nations, EU nations, including which are all American vassals. So the longer this war goes on, the more Europe's resources and reserves get drained. And this Ukraine war has had the effect of pushing many European nations into recessions. Overall, the EU economy is doing very poorly now, which is a direct consequence of the Ukraine war. So the longer this Ukraine war lasts, the more Europe gets drained, and the more the West gets drained. When it comes to Russia, Russia doesn't have any shortage of resources. Russia is an auth, a gigantic land area full of every resource you can possibly want. Whether it is minerals, whether it is coal, whether it's oil and gas, whether it is iron ore, whether it is copper, whether it is whatever you need for agriculture, everything Russia has. It doesn't need to import anything from anywhere in the world. So Russia's economy can keep going essentially forever. But Europe's economy gets drained. So that's why Russia has decided to weaponize time and keep this war going slowly. Let it be a frozen conflict. Let it be a war of attrition. Let it be trench warfare like this, like this First World War. Doesn't matter. Let it keep, let it going on, and that drains Europe. That's Russia's objective. But I think from my perspective, it's gone far too long. It's gone on far too long. See, India kept Russia afloat for a long time by purchasing so much Russian oil, despite the Americans being very unhappy with this. But how long can you keep Russia afloat and by doing this, India ensured that Russia doesn't become a complete Chinese vassal. India ensured, India acted as a pressure release valve for Russia by purchasing so much Russian oil on a continuing basis, which ensured Russia doesn't have to completely become a Chinese vassal. But yes, Russia increasingly depends on, on China now. So I don't know how long Mr. Putin wants to keep this war going, but well, maybe I don't know. He knows better than me, of course. So, we'll see. But that's why this war is going on for so long. It's not Russia's Vietnam. It's not. Russia is not going to experience a defeat in Ukraine. The United States experienced a humiliating defeat in Ukraine. Russia is not going to experience that.

Beckenbower says, "Please look into the CVMC." What's CVMC? Can we finally bypass the Hormuz headache via this deal? Will US sanction or tariff us more for doing it? What is CVMC? Uh, let's see. CVMC corridor. What corridor? What is that? Maritime corridor. Okay. It goes through the Strait of Malacca. Um, yeah, this thing here, the Eastern Maritime Corridor. Yeah, of course. Yeah. So, let me show you on the map what we are talking about here. H that, that. Yeah, that's interesting. So this is supposed to go through the Strait of Malacca. So look here, uh, we are here, India, and Chennai is on India's east coast, as we know. Then you have the city of Vladivostok, which is north of North Korea. So we know where South Korea and North Korea are, the Korean peninsula. North of that, you have the Russian city of Vladivostok, and Russia can export oil through Vladivostok. So if Russia wants to, let's say, export oil to India from Vladivostok, then they have to send ships through here, and the ships have to pass through these straits, the Strait of Tsushima over here. Okay. Between South Korea and Japan, and then they have to pass through Japanese islands, and then pass through the Philippines, enter the so-called South China Sea, come into the Indonesian region, then go through the Malacca Strait, and then reach India. So this process maybe could last, I don't know, 20 or so days, maybe 15, 20 days possibly. Yeah. For the oil to reach India. Um, so that is the Chennai-Vladivostok Maritime Corridor. Uh, it's not like we have to construct any railways or roads to make this happen. We just have to get it going. So, uh, that can certainly allow India to bypass the Hormuz headache via this deal. If India operationalizes this with Russia, what will the US reaction be like? The US reaction will be threats of sanctions or tariffs or whatever. Yes, the US reaction will be hostile. Don't do that. Remain dependent on the West. Remain dependent on the US. Don't purchase Russian oil. Don't become more strategically autonomous. So the CVMC, if the Russians are able to export oil through Vladivostok, it's great for India. Yeah. So we should operationalize the CVMC. Let the Americans complain. How long are you, are is India going to keep bowing down to the US and bowing to US dictates? They said stop purchasing Venezuelan oil. We stopped. They said stop purchasing Iranian oil. We stopped. They said stop purchasing Russian oil. We brought down our purchase of Russian oil. How long do you keep dancing to America's tunes? It's not like they are our friends, right? So you need some fortitude to be able to do this. I would say India should operationalize the Chennai-Vladivostok Maritime Corridor. Is it operational? I am not sure. Let me see. Is the Chennai-Vladivostok Maritime Corridor operational? Yes, it is operational, apparently. Uh, 24 days, right? Cargo. What about oil? Cargo is fine. Cooking, coal, oil, liquefied natural gas. So I think that's a great alternative if it is already operational. It's a great alternative to the energy that we have to import through Hormuz. Right now, there's a disaster happening there. So yes, India, Russia, it'll be great for India-Russia ties as well. Okay.

GGZ says, "If India went capitalist after 1947, when we liberated Bangladesh, could we have installed military bases and written their constitution just like the US does?" We could have done that irrespective of whether we went capitalist or communist or whatever. After 1947, when we liberated Bangladesh, we could have reabsorbed Bangladesh into India. Why take the trouble of installing military bases and writing a constitution for the nation? Bangladesh is anyway historically Indian territory, and at that time, their population wasn't even radicalized like it, like it is today. There weren't a bunch of blood-sucking zombies, blood-seeking zombies, right? I, I can imagine the kind of comments I'm going to get from Bangladeshis now. Anyhow, India should have simply reabsorbed Bangladesh into India. I don't understand why Bangladesh was made into a separate sovereign nation. Why? So, it had nothing to do whether we were capitalist or communist or socialist or whatever. We could have simply reabsorbed it. Big mistake. Big mistake.

Omniak says, "From the US and China's perspective, does first restrain India completely, then compete with each other? Is that on their cards? If yes, till what extent both can collaborate?" It's not like that. See, it's not like first we destroy India, then we...

compete. It's not like that. They are already competing. They are already major adversaries: the US and China. It's not like they will first cooperate and contain India and then start competing with each other. They are already competing with each other. They're extremely hostile to each other.

The Chips Act came into force in the 2010s, late 2010s, right? During Biden, what whenever it came into act, came into operation, a chipset, Chips Act came into operation during Biden's presidency, which is after 2020. But whatever Trump launched the trade war on China in 2017, 2018, around that time, right? They're already competing, but they agree on one thing: that India must be contained. So on that, on that matter, they will cooperate, even while competing on everything else. Okay. They will collaborate only on that limited matter. In everything else, they are adversaries. Okay.

Kakashi says, "One out of two disagree." The US is not dumb. They know India will not partake in China containment war game, war like Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Taiwan. Reason: US balances India-Pakistan ties because the US benefits from economic cooperation with India and from letting India rise a bit economically to balance China, but not too much. India has economic use. Pakistan has military use. When did I ever say the US is dumb? When did I ever say the US is dumb? The US can use India as a leverage or counterbalance against China. Even if India is not willing to play any games vis-à-vis China, just by engaging with India economically and by having India absorb, absorb manufacturing that was that China used to do, the US could have leveraged India. Now they have decided that India will not be leveraged. India will be contained. India is being contained. Now, China, they, it's being contained in different ways. And Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, these are American vassals. Japan and South Korea and even Taiwan are under US military occupation. We are not discussing these countries. India is not like those countries. Maybe you are a new viewer, but uh, I have never categorized India with Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines. Never ever. India is not like those countries. Okay.

The US is not dumb. The US is way more advanced in intelligence and geostrategy compared to India. We are not talking about nursery or junior KG level games here. Now, the reason why the US supports Pakistan is to contain India, is to keep India off balance. That's been their strategy since the 1970s, 1980s, especially from 1980 onwards. But from 2000 and from the mid-2000s onwards, the US decided to leverage India also, uh, as a, a hedge against China. So if India rises with US help, that will be detrimental to China's, China's interests. That was the understanding and the thinking. That's why the Americans did the 1-2-3 deal with India, the nuclear agreement, which was never, ever operationalized in any, any way, but it's still there on paper. Manmohan Singh's time, right? And in the 2010s, the India-US relationship was better than ever before. And that went on until 2022 when India refused to support the US sanctions against Russia and, and so on and so forth. So the US is now once again on Pakistan's side. Until then, the US had lost interest in Pakistan between 2012 to 2022. That's when Pakistan and China were iron brothers. Right now, the US is once again fully pro-Pakistan. It was not that much the case between 2022 until 2024. But in '22, they did the regime change, ousted Imran Khan, brought in Shehbaz Sharif, and once Trump came to power in 2024, that was it, right? So the US doesn't balance India-Pakistan ties, the US fully supports Pakistan. Okay.

Um, the US sees India as a market. The US still wants to engage with India economically, but their demands are maximalist. We still haven't signed a trade agreement with the US, by the way. We still haven't signed that. Now, the tariffs on India are what? 17%. They were, they used to be 50% a few months ago, right? We still haven't signed a trade agreement with them because they are still issuing maximalist demands that India should open up its economy completely to the US with 0% tariffs, including the agricultural sector, services sector, and other sectors, so that India becomes a massive market for the US for dumping goods and extracting value out of India. That's all they seek from India. They don't want their, their, uh, one of their officials, the deputy, deputy secretary of state, or whatever he was in Delhi a couple of months ago, he said explicitly, the US will not repeat the mistakes it made with China by aiding and abetting and midwifeing, midwifing China's rise. India will, the US will not allow India to rise, but we want you as a market. All right, please understand this is not junior KG level games. This is very...

Pushpa Shukla says, "People say Gaddafi was a good ruler for Africa. West killed him. Why the West killed him? Replace dollars with gold or something else. US built on 20 million native people's corpses. Why karma so slow for them?" The US is not built on the corpses of 20 million natives. It's built on the corpses of 100 million natives. At least 50 million. Now, Gaddafi, people say Gaddafi was a good ruler for Africa. He was not a ruler of Africa. He, he ruled Libya. Let's, let's find out where Libya is. Where is Libya? He was not a ruler of Africa. Okay, so let's find out. There is this nation called Libya. You see here in the middle of the screen, that's Libya. Where is it? North Africa. It is west of Egypt and east of Tunisia and Algeria. That is Libya, North Africa. Okay. It is south of the Mediterranean, Mediterranean Sea. It's not very far from Italy. If you see the distance between the coast of Italy and Tripoli, it's about, it's less than 500 km. Not far away, relatively speaking. So Muammar Gaddafi was the ruler of Libya. He was a good ruler of Libya. He was accused of all kinds of things, like some bombing, some aircraft, and God knows what. But all he wanted was to be left alone to rule his country. He was a dictator. Of course, he was a dictator. So under his rule, Libya was stable, peaceful, reasonably prosperous. People had jobs. There was complete law and order. There was no crime. There was no slavery. There was no ethnic conflict, nothing. All he was doing was ruling his country with an iron fist. Did he oppress some people? The West claims he did. Well, if law and order, oppression is a strict, iron-fisted control over law and order, is it oppression? Oh, he's, he's oppressing the poor criminals, like India oppresses the poor Pakistani terrorists that way. So he was a good ruler for his country, and what he wanted was, he wanted a, a pan-African currency that would be backed by gold. But a pan-African currency that is backed by gold would naturally be a replacement, a natural replacement for the US dollar. That's why he was very bad, and that's why he got killed. Yeah.

Uh, the US is built on 20 million native people's corpses. Why is karma so slow for them? Look, the US is an empire. Empires typically last 250, 300 years on average. Some last longer, some last less. A karma. Well, I, I don't know how the law of karma works. It's mysterious. So, I can't say about that.

Abhay Singh says, "First time here." Well, Abhay Singh, welcome. Good to have you. Do you think we should have completely abandoned the Indus Water Treaty? What would have been the ramifications of that? We have walked away from the Indus Waters Treaty. We have abandoned it. It is, it was the right thing to do. It was the right thing to do. We should have done that 50 years ago. Why should we be under any obligation to allow Pakistan to to make use of 80% of the waters of the rivers that flow through India? Why? We have more people. We have the rivers flowing through India. Why should we not take everything? Especially when Pakistan insists on being an enemy of India and doing terrorism and employing terrorism as a state policy. There's a whole bunch of rivers that flow out of Tibet. Does China enter into any stupid treaties, lopsided treaties with anybody? No, it does not. It's going to dam every river if it wants to, right? And India is the more powerful nation, and still, we gave Pakistan 80% of the waters. It's the most lopsided treaty in history. Even a defeated nation doesn't accept that lopsided treaty as, as we did. Right? So we have now walked away from this. What we have to do is to construct the infrastructure to completely use the waters of these rivers. Divert the waters into canals that will maybe make Rajasthan green or whatever. Use the water completely to help with Pakistan. What, what, what their needs are, as long as they insist on remaining a terrorist nation. If they give up terrorism, if they dismantle their nuclear program, then we can think of being friendly with them. Right? Until then, the Indus, and even then, we should not give them 80% of the water. We should give them water as, as per the requirements only, as a magnanimous gesture. Uh, what are the ramifications of India walking away from the Indus? Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. Okay.

Pratipar Roy says, "James England says you, the UK has better jets than India." Uh, the UK had the Sea Harrier, which was a very good jet. India also used that. Uh, what jets does the UK use today? F-16s, Eurofighter Typhoons. What does it use? Let me find out. Oh, sorry, not this. Um, I wonder what fighter jets the UK uses. The UK doesn't even need fighter jets, right? It's a US asset. The US will take care of it. What fighter jets does the Royal Air Force use? Uh, let's see. Eurofighter Typhoon, of course. Yeah, it has 110 of those. F-35A, okay, it doesn't have any of those, but it'll acquire some by 2030. F-35B, it's got 47. Reconnaissance and all is fine. We're talking about fighter jets, Sparrows, Red Sparrows, all that. Okay. So, it's mainly the Eurofighter Typhoon. 110 of those. That's about it. Yeah, it's an okay aircraft. Nothing special about it. It's not a bad aircraft, but, um, it's all right. Not bad. Okay.

Rohit says, "View on Japan becoming a proactive defense player." Japan is under permanent US military occupation. If it becomes a defense player, it will only be as, um, an auxiliary arm of the US. Um, apart from that, it's not a proactive nation whatsoever. Everything Japan does is controlled by the US. The US decides what Japan does. Especially, look, internal politics, Japan does whatever is there, whatever it does. But when it comes to economic policy, foreign policy, and military policy, the US decides what Japan does. And is it a major defense exporter? I'm not sure it is. Um, has it amended its constitution to make self-defense constitutional right, national self-defense a constitutional right? It's not done that even now, despite Madame Abe, what's her name? The Japanese prime minister, the lady, she has a massive majority, but she has not amended the constitution, right? Um, and so, yeah, it's, I'm not sure how it's a proactive defense player. It has a self-defense force, which is the armed forces, but they are under US control. Rohit has become a new member. Thank you so much, Rohit, and welcome to the channel's membership. I really appreciate it. Thank you.

Here to WinW says, "Is it possible to scientifically engineer a heatwave and air pollution in India? Foreigners on X are calling out Indian heatwave is Bill Gates' work." Well, I don't know about heatwaves. It is certainly possible to modify weather. These weather modification programs are very secretive. Okay. But it is very possible, very much possible to modify weather. Weather modification programs have been used by the US as military tools as far back as the Vietnam War, 1960s and 1970s. And whatever advancements they have made in weather modification technology, they have kept those under wraps. Which is why you will not see any scientific literature that details how this is done. Such publications are not allowed. That's why a lot of people call this conspiracy theories. These are not conspiracy theories. It is certainly possible to scientifically engineer, uh, weather modifications. For example, Iran, once again. Let me show you where is this. Look at what's happening in Iran. The Iranian president, Mr. Ahmadinejad, a long time ago, said that the Americans had stolen Iran's rainfall. Look here. The Iranians have destroyed most of the American military infrastructure in the Gulf region now, right? So what's happened after Iran destroyed dozens of US and Israeli radars in the region? It's raining and pouring in Iran. It hasn't rained this much in decades. The climate war against Iran, as warned by former Iranian President Ahmadinejad, turned out to be true. And this lady, whoever she is, is saying, "I'm sick of people dismissing this as a conspiracy theory. Literally, every conspiracy from sexual blackmail at the highest authorities to wars of expansion in oil to elite pedophile gangs and cannibalism turned out to be true. But there are still fools who think suggesting the US was actively manipulating weather in the region is lunacy, even though the US has weaponized weather modification since the Vietnam War, see Operation Popeye." So if you can modify the weather to make it such that it doesn't rain in a certain part of the world, or rainfall is very scarce, then that naturally creates heatwave conditions, right? So it is possible to engineer an artificial drought, which will then cause heatwaves. And heatwaves, when you have heat, a heatwave and you have a drought, you have soil erosion that can cause pollution, can cause pollution, right? So you can engineer all these things. Now, I don't know about whether it's Bill Gates' work or somebody else's work. I don't know about that, but it is possible to engineer these things.

Ashi Sam says, "A lot of the diaspora now faces racism and violence in countries like the US and UK. Any advice for Indians abroad?" My advice for Indians abroad is, if you are living abroad, follow, first of all, follow the local rules, regulations, laws. Don't break the law. Secondly, don't be combative, aggressive. Don't get drunk in public. Don't do any of those stupid things. Yeah. Um, apart from that, be aware that there is more racism and violence towards you. Now, be aware of that. Be cognizant of this fact and keep your eyes open whenever you travel, whenever you're in public. Keep your eyes open and learn self-defense and know the law, know the local laws, what, what legal recourse you have if something happens. Law, learn all of that, be very familiar with the local laws and know how to contact the authorities if and when, if or when required. So these are basic precautions. That's all I can advise. Take all the basic precautions. Don't be complacent. Don't take things for granted. Be aware of the situation and act accordingly, right? All the best to everyone abroad.

Says, "Why still 95% we are importing? Think still no VLSI done." I don't know. I think the government has to answer this question. VLSI is Very Large Scale Integration. We're talking about semiconductors here, right? So, we are, we are now producing our own chips. They may not be the most advanced chips, but we are producing chips. Let's find out what advances we have made in semiconductor manufacturing. Uh, we have a national semiconductor program, right? What is the status of India's national semiconductor program? Let's see. So, anchored by 76,000 crore semiconductor mission, has shifted from policy to active execution as of early 2026. The program has approved more than 10 major projects, including fabs and assembly units with, whatever, lakh crore in investment. So what is being manufactured? So it's still, you know, it's still in its infancy. It has moved from policy to active execution. Um, and the manufacturing is now just beginning. So maybe we'll have to wait like a few years more for us to become like 50% uh independent, maybe I don't know, maybe 5 to 7 years more. It's, it's something that takes time. Manufacturing is not like software. Software, you can write overnight or you can write in a week's time, a new software product. Manufacturing is physical manufacturing, that takes time. So we, we're going to have to be patient. The government is doing a good job. The government has recognized that semiconductor manufacturing is very important and it's investing so much money into this. So it'll take time, but in 5, 7 years, 10 years maximum, we should be reasonably independent in manufacturing, uh, chips and all that. Yeah.

Pratipa Kumar Roy says, "Her friend James asks why India rejected industrialization to look at China now and what a fool's errand." See, India did not reject industrialization. It was the Nehruvian regime and subsequent regimes that rejected industrialization. Mr. Gandhi wanted India to be a Khadi economy. He wanted Indians to live in huts and each hut should have that spinning wheel, and each Indian will will spin yarn and sell just enough in one day to eat three meals a day or maybe two meals a day. That's what Mr. Gandhi wanted. Now, Mr. Nehru wanted a centrally planned economy, and that's what he executed. That's what he implemented, and that gave us the Nehruvian rate of growth, 2% 3% GDP growth per year. And India rejected industrialization. India embraced socialism with Nehruvian characteristics. So it was Mr. Nehru, the great magnificent Mr. Nehru, and subsequent regimes that ruled India that are responsible for this. Indians, they do not reject industrialization. It's the people who the British placed in power who rejected industrialization. And you are right, China has gone far ahead of India. Even China began industrializing in the early, late '80s, early '90s, mid-'80s, but it became visible in the '90s, and they've done a great job. One has to commend what they have achieved. In India, still not embracing thorough reforms till now, even now, we still have too much red tape, we still have too many rules, laws, regulations, we still have too much, allegedly, corruption and so on.

Rajat says, "Sudan's Darfur genocide, who has done it?" External forces, yeah. See, right now, the situation in Sudan is that you have the Rapid Support Forces and you have the other faction, and they're fighting each other. And one faction is supported by this group of external actors, the other faction is supported by that group of external actors. It is alleged that both the US and Russia are allegedly involved on different sides, allegedly. Some Gulf nations are allegedly involved on, on various sides, maybe the Saudi Arabia versus UAE rivalry has been played out over here, and so on. So it's external forces who are responsible for a disaster that's been unfolding in Africa, in Sudan, over a period of multiple decades. And in one of the previous live streams, I had given a detailed history of how this has happened. I don't remember which live stream it was, but, you know what, I'll look it up and maybe I'll post it as a comment under this, under this live stream. Yeah.

Atul Prasad says, "Have you looked into Savitri Devi, the mystic from Europe? Controversial in the West, but provides an alternative, alternate view to the post-World War II liberal world order." I don't know who this Savitri Devi is. Let me see. Devi, mystic. Who is this person? Who was this person? This lady is no longer alive. Savitri Devi Mukharji was a French-born Greek Nazi activist. What the hell? Maximiani Portas was a French-Greek French author and spy who developed a unique form of esoteric Nazism, synthesizing Aryanism, deep ecology, and Hinduism. She famously viewed Adolf Hitler as an avatar of Vishnu intended to end the Kali Yuga and return the world to a golden age. She was born in 1905. Oh, yeah, this lady, I, I recognize the face. Okay. She was born in 1905. She was an outspoken animal rights activist and vegetarian who preferred animals to humans. She married a Bengali Brahmin person to facilitate her stay in India where she became involved in Hindu nationalist politics. Uh, she's a key figure in neo-Nazism, promoting a blend of occultism and racial ideology, often referred to as esoteric Hitlerism. She believed in a cyclical view of history, arguing that human beings are divided into distinct races. She argued that Hitler was a divine figure whose mission was to fight for the superior race. She authored numerous books, including "The Lightning in the Sun" (1958), which explores her idea of Hitler as a divine superhuman figure. Her ideas, often considered extreme, have seen a resurgence within two of the modern alt-right and white supremacist circles. Note BBC News on Facebook under whatever space of user, Facebook user, whatever her life and work and so on and so forth. Savitri Devi, the mythical fascist. Yes, I remember. See, I remember her face at least. Hitler's priestess, the Hindu Aryan myth, and so on and so forth. Okay. Yeah. So, uh, I haven't really looked into her history and whatever her views were. Uh, once I saw her face, I recognized it from, from memory. I've seen her face, but I haven't really bothered to study her life and work, work, and her views and so on. Interesting. Must be an interesting story. Okay.

Rohit says, "Being a civilized state, is it good for modern geopolitics?" Of course. Of course. See, you have to understand that you can be civilized and yet hard-nosed in geopolitics. Being civilized doesn't mean that you should abandon your interests. You can be civilized. You can refuse to do certain things. You can refuse to nuke nations, for example. But you will have to look out for your interests. After all, we, it is Indian civilization that gave rise to Vishnu Gupta Chanakya, who authored the Arthashastra, and a lot of people say the Shastra makes Machiavelli look like a schoolboy, right? So it's perfectly fine.

Rohan Bidi says, "Universe has a sound horizon imprinted in galaxy distribution. Pressure waves in the early universe left a preferred separation scale between galaxies." I have no idea what this is. Okay, this must be some, some new news report or something. The universe has a sound horizon imprinted in galaxy distribution. Okay. Listen. I am not going to look this up online, what this news or whatever it is about. But let me explain what the galaxy distribution is like. We have a certain kind of distribution of galaxies. See, if you look at the universe from the largest scales, the universe is isotropic and homogeneous. Which means everywhere you look, you have a very similar distribution of and concentration of galaxies and dark matter and whatever else, right? It's mostly galaxies and dark matter. That's what you have. So if you look at the universe at small scales, like if you look at the solar system from a human's eye, but the universe doesn't seem to have uniform distribution. Most of it is empty space. Then you have planets like Earth, Mars, Venus, etc., Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, near the sun. It's clearly not a homogeneous distribution from the way we see it. But if we zoom out, then you will see that we have a galaxy, and the distribution of stars within the galaxy seems to be reasonably homogeneous. But if you zoom out, then you will see that the Milky Way has a partner or neighbor galaxy, and then there's a big gap between us and other galaxies. You zoom out further, you will see galaxy clusters. You zoom out further and further and further, you will see that there is homogeneity and isotropy, which means everything in all directions is mostly the same. So that's what you have. That's how what the universe is structured like at the largest scales. Um, pressure waves in the early universe left a preferred separation scale between galaxies. Yeah, that's some new research that seems to have come out, some new study. Uh, I'll have to see it. Okay, let's, let's see. Um, universe sound horizon imprinted in galaxy distribution. What is that? The sound horizon is a characteristic scale, approximately 150 megaparsecs or 490 million light-years in today's universe. Imprint. Okay. Baryon acoustic oscillations. Okay. Propagated in the early plasma and froze at recombination. Okay. Uh, D. Okay. So you have baryon acoustic oscillations that propagated in the early plasma. The plasma is the little, you know, the contents of the vacuum, which is not entirely a pure vacuum. Uh, a subtle excess clustering of galaxies at this specific distance, used as a standard ruler to measure cosmic expansion. Okay. So what are baryon acoustic oscillations? Regular periodic fluctuations in the density of visible baryonic matter, caused by sound waves traveling through primordial plasma, and it froze, it froze obviously, um, at recombination. Yeah. So the, so the, the concept is that the very early universe, before, before inflation, was extremely, extremely tiny. Then you had inflation, which was superluminal expansion, and after that, the universe has been expanding, and the accelerated expansion is accelerating for the longest time. For the first 400,000 years of the universe's expansion, the universe was essentially, what was it? 400,000 years, whatever it was, it was opaque, it was very dense, very dense. So you had sound waves propagating through the universe, and eventually the universe, uh, expanded beyond a certain stage, and then the sound waves froze, and the sound, the freezing of the sound waves left behind patterns in the universe which are still visible today. Right? And so at certain distances, you have certain clustering, certain kinds of clustering of galaxies, and that is used to measure the expansion of the universe and so on. So, yeah, that's the deal. That is, that comes under cosmology, which is a certain discipline of physics. It doesn't come under astrophysics or other disciplines. Um, yeah, so it's a, it's pressure waves or sound waves in the early universe which, which caused this, and eventually the universe expanded beyond a certain range, a certain scale, and then all, all that the sound, the sound stopped because the universe became too thin for sound to, to, to propagate. So that's why those patterns got imprinted essentially forever in the universe, and that's why we have, you know, these, this periodic distribution of galaxies.

Pratipa Kumar Roy says, "All the flat apartment complexes at my place are all concrete slums. No forest or green area nearby. No greenery, no planning inside. India is doomed." It's because of India's administrators. It's because of India's politicians. There's no concept of town planning. There's no concept of beautification. There's no concept of livable spaces. Just cram as much development as possible into as small an area as possible so that the builders can make money and the politicians can extract money out of builders, and everybody, the whole ecosystem benefits from it. Terrible, right? Terrible. Absolutely terrible.

Vijay Viki says, "What do you think of Trump assassination attack? Was that a false flag? What do you think?" So, what happened yesterday? I have not seen, so I don't know. But the assassination attempt, the one that grazed his ear, I'm pretty sure that was a staged thing. I'm pretty sure it was staged.

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The Eternal Witness Godliness says, "Fake paneer, fake milk, and so much more. From food to education to health, everything has turned into an extortion racket. On top, we have reservation and freebies. Sadly, things don't look promising. We have laws in India, but are the laws enforced? Are they implemented? Not really. Enforcement is what makes laws real, right? You put laws on paper but don't enforce them. On paper, corruption is illegal, but in the real world, nothing is done. Then what happens? Then you have these situations, right? Healthcare and education are extortion rackets. You are made to spend years chasing a piece of paper, and you have to pay out of your nose. You have to pay through your nose for that. And that piece of paper doesn't give you anything. You don't really acquire any skills in the education system. It, it actually dumbs you down, and they say it's a great education system. Now we have a new education policy which is going to make it even better. What, what a, what nonsense. It's a joke. And then you, like you say, you have reservations, reservations. You have freebies given to various sections of society. Terrible. One had hoped that in the past 12 years, something would change. Terrible."

Godliness says, "Explain the main pillars of any foreign policy and give an example of how internal political situation of any sovereign nation reflects on external affairs." Main pillars of foreign policy. Well, there's economic policy, there's military policy, there's diplomacy, but the main pillar of foreign policy is your national interest, your self-interest. Every nation has its own version of a national interest. So based on what your national interest is, you're going to have core interests or critical interests, you're going to have, important interests. You're going to have peripheral interests, and that is going to determine how you interact with other nations. So whenever you have nations that have similar interests, they're going to work together and so on and so forth. So these, that's how foreign policy is determined. Now, internal political situation of any nation, external affairs, examples. I'll give you how it works. Examples, you can look for them yourself, but I'll tell you how it works. Let's say you are Donald Trump, okay? Or let's say you are any American president, and the US is the most powerful nation in the world, and the people of the US expect that the US wins in everything. And then, let's say you have a new nation. You have a nation that is showing signs of being more sovereign than usual, or so, or it's showing signs of what you would call anti-American policies by being a communist nation, for example, or by maybe by trading with China or Russia. Then what do you do? The people will say, "Look, this is bad." So you have to show that, you know, the US is still number one. So you go and invade the nation, right? So that, that's, uh, internal politics affecting external affairs. So there are many, many such ways in which this manifests itself. Um, let's say in Nigeria, there is Boko Haram, which is killing Christians, and your political constituency in the US is all Christians. So to appease your constituency, you go and take action against Boko Haram. So then your constituency is appeased, and they're pleased, and then you get more votes in the next election. So that's how it works. You see? Okay.

Suraj says, "Given exodus of elites to other nations and damages done to our unethical corrupt leadership, when can we expect our fate of either Africa given exodus of elites to other nations from from where? From India and damage is done to our unethical corrupt leadership. When can we expect our fate of either Africa or Soviet Union? When can we expect our fate of either Africa or Soviet Union?" So you are saying when will India either become Africa or Soviet Union? I hope never. Exodus of elites. No, it's not exodus of elites. It's a brain drain. Exodus of the brightest Indians, young Indians out of India. Still continues. See, what is the truth in India? What do all parents want? All parents want their children to get a good degree and get the hell out of India. Everybody wants that. Everyone wants their child to settle in the US or in the West or something. That's the ideal situation for every parent. Why is it like this? Because India is a rotten country. It's got a rotten system. Why does every parent dream that the child will settle abroad? India is Nigeria with nukes, right? But I am hoping India doesn't become like Africa or the Soviet Union. I hope it doesn't happen. I hope that there will be some leader in India who has the, the, the, the fortitude, let's say, of unleashing revolutionary reforms in India. It's not happening right now, obviously. Yeah.

Messy Aliens. "If aliens were here, we would never know as they'd be so advanced than us. People are so stupid to believe in this fake UFO sightings. Turn 618 versus Ant." Now, what is T618? Ton 618 is a black hole. Okay. Now, the question, if aliens were here, we would never know. And people are stupid to believe in this fake UFO sightings. UFO sightings, some of them may be true, maybe real. But I don't think these are aliens that are here. I think it is secret military technology that is being tested by certain nations. Maybe it's Lockheed Martin technology. Maybe it's Boeing technology. Maybe it's NASA technology. I think it is advanced technology. I don't think it's UFOs. I mean, I don't think it's aliens. Now, if aliens were here, we would never know about it. Is that true? Think about it like this. Let's say I am a biology researcher. I am studying bacteria. How do I study them? I put bacteria in a petri dish. I put them under a microscope, shine the light, and then I take, choose the appropriate lens and look at them, the bacteria. Those bacteria have no idea somebody is looking at them through a microscope. They have no idea whatsoever. Maybe there are some beings who are so advanced, so much more advanced than us, that we are like bacteria to them. Maybe they are looking at us now, and we have no idea. Of course, it's possible. Uh, T618 versus Ant. I don't know what Ant is. T618 is one of the largest black holes ever discovered, larger than our mil, uh, than our solar system. Mind-bogglingly gigantic. Yeah, that's a massive, massive black hole. And is it a new black hole or something that has been discovered? I don't know. But T618 is one of the incredibly massive black holes. What, what's the size? More than a billion solar masses, I think. Let's find out. What is the size of the Ton 618 black hole in terms of solar masses? Okay. 66 billion solar masses. Massive, massive, ultra-massive black hole. And it's a hyperluminous quasar as well. Okay.

Vijay says, "Iranian MP has spoken against Pakistan as mediators, as they are not an impartial party. Unfortunate for Pakistan's newfound fame." See, Pakistan, whatever newfound fame it has, it is only engineered by the United States. Okay. It's engineered by the US artificially, and Pakistan's mediation is not really mediation. Pakistan is acting on behalf of the US. Pakistan is not, see, a mediator is supposed to be a neutral party. Pakistan is a US vassal. It's not, it's not neutral. It's not a mediator. It is simply a convenient location and a convenient puppet to have because the Iranians, the Iranians refuse to speak to the US directly. So the Americans are using Pakistan for the purpose. That's all. And the Iranians know very well the Pakistanis are not to be trusted.

Kaiser Shou says, "Is Israel, which itself runs the Illuminati, behind the death of Michael Jackson? MJ is Michael Jackson." I don't know how will I know about this. Do you people imagine I know everything in the world? I only, I can only see what you guys can see. I don't have access to any secret information, secret sources. I don't know. How will I know if Israel is behind Michael Jackson's death? I don't know. I'm very sorry. I don't know.

Rajat says, "The story of Titu Singh who recognized his own murderer in Aura code is stunning. I don't, I did not find any flaws in the story. Is it proving reincarnation?" I don't know. See, I don't know the story of Titu Singh. I don't know who Titu Singh is. But there are many stories like this. There are, this is actually kind of interesting. I have read some of this like 20, 30 years ago, some of these things, some of these stories about reincarnation. I don't know if it proves anything, but how, for example, there are stories of children who remember somehow who they were in a previous life. They know how they, and they know details about their previous life which are impossible to manufacture or fake. Now, whether kids are all coached to create a hoax, I don't know. Can't be always that case, right? So it's, it's fascinating. I don't know. It also appears that, you know, people who have birthmarks or whatever, these are wounds from previous lifetimes or whatever. That's also a theory, perhaps. I don't know. So I don't know how true or whatever it is. I don't know if it proves reincarnation, but it's pretty intriguing for sure.

Says, "Given the ex..." Okay, we took this question, right? We took this question already. I don't know why it's come again.

Rajat Rajat says, "Can the sun be used as a telescope from behind?" There is no behind of the sun. The sun is a sphere. Sphere. What's behind a sphere? I, I don't know how we can use the sun as a telescope from behind. You can use it. See, well, the sun can do gravitational lensing. It can bend starlight, but only you can, you can measure that only when there's a complete solar eclipse. So, I don't know how the sun can be used as a telescope. I'm not sure how it could work.

Sar Mahajan says, "How is Earth's sidereal rotation important in astronomy?" See, I'll tell you what. We have something called the precession of the equinoxes, right? So, what, what happens is that, let's say, okay, I don't have my tennis ball here. Uh, do I have something else? I don't. Let's say, see, the Earth, it spins. You know, cricket, right? Leg spin, off spin, all that stuff. The Earth spins around its own axis. So we have the plane of the solar system. Okay, it's like a flat disc. Why is it a flat disc? Because it, the solar system evolved out of a big gas cloud, which became a protostellar disc, and then fusion ignited in the center, which became the sun, and then everything else coalesced around that. So we have a, the plane of the solar system, which is like a flat disc, and the Earth, it rotates around the sun, revolves around the sun in the plane of the solar system. But Earth also rotates around its own axis, and the axis of rotation is not completely perpendicular to the plane of the solar system. It's slightly tilted, maybe because of an ancient impact or whatever. And so this axis, it also spins around like that, once in every, every 23,000 or so years. And that's why we don't always have the same pole star. The pole star changes every few thousand years. And what's interesting is that our ancestors recorded other pole stars, which tells you how ancient our history is. And that's also important in astronomy because it, you know, because of that, uh, the constellations, they change their locations and so on. So, yeah.

Kakashi says, "Before Iran war, CIA, Mossad, MI6 tried to force color revolution in Iran by artificially shortening the currency and striking Iran's economy to fuel hardship and protests." Correct. Correct. They also engineered, uh, riots in Iran. You had all these protests and riots happening, and you saw that there were people wearing civilian clothing who were shooting like professionals at the crowds. So there are two possibilities. Either these are Iranian secret agents, or foreign secret agents. I don't know which is which. Uh, but it's well known that color revolutions are instigated by, by, by creating artificial protests and riots by paying people to do that. Right? So, yes, they have tried to do this with Iran. They tried to force a color revolution in Iran. They had protests break out in various cities. They artificially manipulated the, the currency and what it, what its purchasing power, etc., is. Right. Yes. And see, when you, when you create an artificial hardship in a country by sanctioning the hell out of the country and so on, then the people, obviously, they don't understand how multi-dimensional geopolitics works. They will simply blame the government, right? So that's how you make a government unpopular. So, yeah, that's how the game is played. It's terrible.

Uh, Rajat says, "Is the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics really accepted?" Uh, the many-worlds theory, it's not a theory, it's an interpretation of quantum mechanics. See, there are multiple interpretations of quantum mechanics. There's the Copenhagen interpretation, there's the many-worlds interpretation, uh, there are other interpretations also. The most commonly widely accepted interpretation is the Copenhagen interpretation, which says, "Shut up and calculate." Don't ask questions about what we don't understand. Quantum mechanics, it allows you to understand the world really well and to, you know, you can, you can use it to develop technology. All the technology we have today, much of it is based in quantum mechanics. For example, your laptop, your phone, your microprocessors, your microchips. This is all quantum technology. You would not have this live stream happening if we had not mastered quantum mechanics and used it successfully in engineering. So, we know what quantum mechanics is. We know the equations. We know the laws. We know everything. We don't know what, what they're telling us. Okay? We don't know what it means. What does it mean? What does superposition mean? What does quantum entanglement mean? What is it telling us? Right? What is the double-slit experiment actually telling us? How can a particle be a wave and a particle at the same time? How can an electron pass through two slits at the same time? We don't understand so many of these things. And that's why we have multiple interpretations of quantum mechanics. One is the Copenhagen interpretation. One is the many-worlds interpretation, which is really interesting, which is actually quite frightening, actually. It's quite frightening if you go deeper into it. It's very frightening about what is your ultimate fate. It means you will never die. One of the implications of the many-worlds theory is that you never die. You remain in some form or the other. At least your consciousness remains in some form or the other. If you think about the implications, it's frightening. And the many-worlds interpretation is there are many physicists who consider that to be the dominant interpretation. And these are not crackpots, okay? These are actual physicists. Yeah.

Rajat says, "Can we know what happened before 10 to the power of minus 32 seconds?" Almost impossible to know. So, what happened in 10 to the power of minus 32 seconds? You're talking about the history of the universe. So it's around 10 to the power of minus 32 seconds after the Big Bang that inflation happened, which is this superluminal expansion of spacetime. What happened before that? It's almost impossible for us to know. The entire universe was seriously, seriously compressed, like unimaginably dense and hot at the time. And what were the conditions like? What were the laws of physics like at the time? It's very, very hard to reconstruct that. So, um, maybe in the future, we'll make some progress, but right now, based on the observational evidence and all, it's pretty hard to reconstruct what happened before that time.

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Godliness says, "If foreign policy is ideology-based, like Iran, do they suffer from self-personification?" Ideology. Ideology can sometimes blind you from the reality on the ground. I don't know what self-personification is. What is self-personification? Let me ask Google because I am not aware of what this means. Self-personification. What does it mean? The psychological or creative process of attributing human qualities, emotions, or intentionality to oneself, to one's body parts. No, that's not what you're asking here. I don't know what self-pursu... I don't know what you mean by that. Foreign policy. Look, foreign policy is, is it ideology-based in Iran? Foreign policy is based on national interests. Even for Iran, their governance is ideology-based. The way they run their country is based on Shia Islamic ideology. Sure, their foreign policy is not based on ideology. Their foreign policy is based on national interest, and their national interest, to some small extent, is based on ideology that, you know, what, we won't allow any other form of government in Iran, we will only have Sharia, and that sort of thing, right? Um, can ideology blind you from the reality on the ground? It depends on the ideology. Depends. Okay. Not all ideologies will blind you. Some will. It depends.

Rajan Rajar says, "Rahun Rajger says, what do you think of Indians becoming the face of many corporations? I believe Indian leaders are micromanagers." Yes, they are. They are hard on people working under them and please the ones who are above them. There is nothing to be proud of. See, whether Indians managers are micromanagers or macro managers doesn't matter. But Indians becoming CEOs of various corporations is nothing for India to be proud of. These Indians who have CEOs of American corporations, they are American citizens. They aren't Indian citizens. Just because they came from India doesn't mean a thing. It actually is something to be deeply, deeply upset about and shamed, ashamed of, that we drove these talented people away from India, that they, they are now foreign citizens and working for a foreign nation and serving that nation's interests. What is there to be proud of? And they are not the owners or founders of companies. They are simply employees. The CEO is the topmost employee of a company, right? And when it comes to Indian managers, they are typically micromanagers and really a pain in the neck. Yes, many of them. Not all, many of them.

Push says, "Japan has removed the ban on the sale of lethal weapons to other countries. Really? Okay. India has welcomed that. Should India do long-term defense deals with Japan? Because after all, Japan is a US vassal and can overturn those deals." As long as Japan is a non-sovereign nation under US occupation, it doesn't make sense for India to do, uh, defense deals with Japan because Japan is completely controlled by the US. I'm a huge fan of Japan, Japan's culture, Japan's history, Japan's...

People. Okay? I hope that someday soon Japan will be once again a completely sovereign nation and civilization. But right now, it is under US military occupation and complete US control. At this time, I don't think it makes sense for India to do any defense deals with Japan.

Rajat says DJT Donald J. Trump wanted house underground structure and this happens. Strange, I don't know underground structure. I am not aware of that. Sorry, this happens. You mean the thing that happened yesterday? Z haha says, "Has physics stalled on quantum gravity because it lacks a three-part creation, preservation, destruction mirroring quantum field theories operator structure?" I don't know, but look, I don't mix religion and spirituality with physics ever. I never, ever, ever, ever do that. The two things don't mix from my perspective, okay? I never mix religion with physics, I never spirituality or anything else with science. Never do that.

Why has physics stalled? It's because string theory took over everything. All the funding goes towards string theory. If you're not a string theorist, you don't get published, no matter what you try to publish, no matter how good your research is, right? The string theory mafia has taken over academia in the West. That's why all other approaches have been marginalized. Nothing is published. And then you have the publishing mafia, the peer-review mafia. They have turned the whole physics academic structure into a mindless paper-producing, paper-churning factory. And if you look at the papers that are published every day on the physics archive, what new progress are they making for physics? Nothing. So, the problem is, physics has hit a brick wall since 1980 or so. Yeah. The last major theoretical advance was cosmic inflation, that was proposed by Aaron Guth around 1980, '79, '80, '81, thereabouts. After that, nothing new has come out. Yeah, we discovered the Higgs boson, that was experimental validation of a 1950s theory, but no new theory has been proposed that has been experimentally validated since 1980, around 1980. That's because the string theory mafia has taken over physics, and other approaches are being marginalized. That's the reason. That's the reason why.

Kakashi says, "Indian CEOs suit the Western-created hierarchical corporate toxic structure, obedience to the white owners and masters, passive like our CEOs in the West." Um, Indian CEOs suit the Western-created hierarchical corporate toxic structure, obedience to the white. Yeah, kind of. Yeah. So, so there are Indians also who have leadership qualities, but if you have leadership qualities, you are not a good CEO. See, in the corporate world, they lecture you about leadership and leadership qualities and so on, but that's not real leadership. That's simply management. You may be great at managing humans, and you term that as leadership. You pretend that that is being a leader. That's not being a leader. That's being a manager. A leader doesn't serve somebody up there, somebody above them. A leader serves those who are under them, those who they represent, or those who they actually lead. They don't lead, they serve. Leadership is service. In corporate leadership, it's actually exploitation for obviously money, right? That sort of thing. Um, so typically, an Indian whoever becomes a CEO is not really a leader. And a lot of Indians, they make good CEOs and good managers. A lot of Indians have the leadership qualities that you need in founders, but they don't have the capital. So, yeah, so these Indians who rise to the positions of CEOs and all, I'm sure they are nice, they're nice people and all, but they aren't really leaders. They are great employees and great managers.

Mary Kane, good to see you, ma'am. Good to see you. Good morning, good day. Could India's near constant diverse celebrations be an ancient method of harmonizing with quantum fields and promoting positive energy? I don't know. Look, um, quantum mechanics was discovered in the early 20th century. Uh, 1900 is when Max Planck discovered that the ultra-microscopic world is quantum in nature. Uh, well, he just forced, he fitted a curve. He found a formula that fit a curve. But that's how it all started. I'm not sure if ancient Indians knew about quantum mechanics. We knew about the atomic theory. The atomic theory came from India. It was Maharishi Kanada who first proposed this model of the universe that, you know, there is something called the Anu, the atom, beyond which the universe is indivisible, that sort of thing. So that was the first atomic model, not quite the first quantum model. Uh, but we in India, different parts of India, we have celebrations happening all the time. There's always, every month, there's some festival or the other. And festivals and celebrations often incorporate the natural world within. And India's celebrations are pretty, you know, there's no, well, most of the time there's no animal sacrifice or whatever. Some celebrations do involve that, of course, Kali Puja, etc. But overall, it's pretty harmonious with nature. So, Indian society was not a capitalist society. Indian society was something totally different. India did urbanize and industrialize, but not at the expense of nature. India's civilization evolved over multiple millennia, and the wealth was built up over multiple millennia. So the development, etc., that happened was not done at the expense of destroying nature. So, overall, India's culture, traditions, celebrations, festivals have all promoted harmony with nature. And when you are harmoniously involved and entangled with nature, it's overall all about positive energy, right? So that's what India's history and culture and civilization has been about historically. Now, maybe not so much because we in India are becoming increasingly westernized, but historically, it was that way.

Kakashi says, "Freebie and welfare are different. Welfare is good for the economy." Freebies and welfare are different. Welfare is good for the economy. That's semantics. That's semantics, right? You can call freebies also as welfare. You can just put a tag of welfare on it, right? That is just semantics. It's just wordplay. The problem is, what is good for the economy? What's bad for the economy? Taking taxpayer money and giving it for free to people is bad for the economy. It's bad for the morale of the country. It's bad for everything. So you can call that freebies, but some politicians may even call that welfare, right? Please understand, it's just wordplay. Um, so giving free stuff to people who haven't earned that, that's bad for the economy, that's bad for society, that's bad for the nation's morale, it's bad for everything. Uh, welfare, what is welfare? I'm not sure what your definition of welfare is, but everything that is not free. Whatever giving free stuff to people who don't deserve it is terrible for an economy. Um, if you could define what you mean by welfare, I could perhaps give you my opinion about that.

A says, "How can Trump assassination be staged?" I don't know. I'm not a professional in staging assassinations. I would not know, but there are professionals who do all kinds of stuff.

Pushina says, "Did USA Israel make a big mistake by eliminating the entire top leadership? Because now they are nervous that the negotiations which they are doing with the political leadership, will the IRGC respect it?" Look, historically, you don't do such things. You may be two countries at war, but you don't eliminate, you don't assassinate leaders. That goes against international law. It goes against common sense. If you kill the leaders, who will you negotiate with? Who will you negotiate with? If you kill the leaders of a country, the country will put up new leaders, and those leaders are not going to be disposed towards negotiating with you. They will not, they are not going to trust you. It was incredibly wrong, first of all, legally and morally, to assassinate a world leader, the leader of a country. And secondly, it was incredibly stupid to do that because Mr. Kami Ali Kame and the other leaders who were assassinated, they were moderates. You kill the moderates, you're going to have hardliners coming up. So this was a really stupid thing by the Americans and the Israelis to do. It, this action was born out of arrogance and hubris, and it's not going to serve them well.

Suril Lak says, "Is it too impractical to dig a tunnel road from underneath underneath Siachen to Wakhan corridor for our connectivity to Central Asia?" It's incredibly impractical. Yeah. Digging tunnels takes a lot of time, lot of effort, costs a tremendous amount of money. And digging a tunnel that's, well, how far is it? Let's find out, shall we? Let's find out. So, we have to bring in huge digging equipment all the way into the Himalayas. First of all, let's see where is, see, Wakhan corridor is here, right? This is the Wakhan corridor, the Wakhan National Park and so on. This is the Wakhan corridor. Uh, where is Siachen? Okay, this is Siachen, the Siachen glacier. So from here to the Wakhan corridor, how far is it? It's 280 km. But listen, if you want to dig a tunnel, you usually don't dig from Siachen, right? You will dig it from Leh or Kargil or something. Why from Siachen, which is so high? First of all, it has to be practical. It has to be something you can use practically. If you dig, build a tunnel from Siachen to Wakhan, you will have to first go to Siachen to enter the tunnel. Who can go to Siachen? Only the most well-trained people. This has to be practical. Maybe from Srinagar to Wakhan. Maybe from Leh to Wakhan, not from Siachen. And secondly, a tunnel that is 300-plus kilometers long. Potentially, it'll take you maybe decades to build it. So it's not practical overall. It's not practical, right? Uh, for example, let's, let's do a quick comparison, a reasonably good comparison. How long is the Channel Tunnel and how long did it take to build it? So the Channel Tunnel is about 50 kilometers long and it took just under six years to complete. Okay. The Channel. Okay. So that did not take so long. Six years for 50 km. So 36 years for 300 km. But the Channel Tunnel was constructed between England and France by two nations who wanted it and under good conditions, not like in the Himalayas. So it may take 50 years to build a tunnel from Wakhan, from wherever to Wakhan. So it's not practical.

Pratik Pumar Royce says, "Can you explain quantization and wave-particle duality in quantum physics?" Quantization, wave-particle duality. Let's see. These are very big topics in their own right. Let me take one for example. Quantization. What is quantization? So we know there are atoms. What's an atom? An atom has a nucleus, which is the central positively charged component, and it has electrons that spin around the nucleus. Okay. So the simplest atom is a hydrogen atom. It's got one proton in the nucleus and it's got one electron that orbits the nucleus. Then you have other atoms with more nucleons, that is neutrons and protons, and more electrons. Typically, the proton number, the number of protons and number of electrons is the same. So for carbon, it's 12 protons and 12 electrons and a certain number of neutrons, and so on, right? So the question is, we know the nucleus is at the center. Most of the atom is empty space. But where do the electrons spin around? Do they just spin around in any way they want? Any configuration they want? No. The electrons, it turns out, they exist in shells, in specific orbits. These orbits are called K, L, M, N, O, P, etc. And each of these orbits has something called a quantum number, small n. The K orbit or K shell has quantum number n=1. The L shell has n=2. M has n=3, and so on. So this n=1, 2, 3, etc., is the principal quantum number, okay? And it turns out electrons can only occupy, and each shell or orbit corresponds to a certain energy level, a certain amount of energy that the electron has. And electrons can only occupy, it turns out, we discovered that electrons can only occupy specific orbits, the K, L, M, N orbits, not something between the K and L orbits or K. Yeah. And so the energy of an electron can only be a multiple of n=1, 2, 3, etc. It can't be 0.5n. It can't be 0.3725n. Nope. Only n=1, 2, 3, etc. So that is quantization. The energies are quantized. The electron orbits are quantized, okay? That's something where that made no sense. I mean, nature is supposed to be continuous, not discrete. So that's quantization. That's how the universe operates at the most, the smallest scales. Why? We don't know why. We just know it is like that. Yeah, that's quantization. So, and that gives rise to the phenomena we see right now. Why do we have this orange light behind me? It operates at a certain wavelength that comes out of the excitations of the energy levels of atoms, okay? And so on. So that's quantization. Wave-particle duality is a ridiculously mind-bogglingly strange phenomenon that a particle is not necessarily a particle. It can be a wave but also a particle at the same time. So an electron is a wave, but it's also a particle. And because it's a particle, it can interfere with other particles. Like it can, because it's a wave, it can show interference patterns. It can interfere with itself. It can be in two positions at the same time. Yeah, and so on. Quantum mechanics is very, very, very, very mind-bogglingly strange. Takes a lot of time to get used to it. So that's that's wave-particle duality. An electron is a particle and a wave at the same time. A proton is a particle and a wave at the same time, and so on.

Pushina says, "I don't know. I know you don't comment about internal politics, but still, if BJP wins Bengal, could it allow more movement of troops in Bengal around the Bangladesh border? Because all the surrounding states are BJP ruled, just my thought." Um, I don't know what is the situation in Bengal. Do we not have troops in Bengal? Is troop movement not allowed in Bengal? I have no idea whatsoever. I don't know. I have no idea. So, uh, that is a question that I don't have the answer to. I mean, ideally, in every Indian state, movement of troops is a central matter. No state government can come in the way. So if we need troops there, we should have troops there. Ideally, that's how it should work. I don't know what the actual situation is. If it is not that way, I would be very, very concerned. But I don't know.

At Prasad says, "Does solipsism solve the observable problem in quantum mechanics? That is, treat yourself as the only thing that can collapse a wave function, and others' observations of Schrödinger's cat are just entangling them with the quantum state?" No, I'll tell you what. Observation, you're referring to the collapse of a wave function, right? What do we mean by the collapse of a wave function? Let's say you have an electron somewhere. The electron is represented by a wave function. That's how you describe an electron in quantum mechanics. You draw psi, which is the wave function, and you insert it into this equation, the Schrödinger equation, and you solve for the particular circumstances this electron finds itself in, right? It could be a free electron, it could be an electron in a well, it could be an electron between two barriers, and so on and so forth. That's how we come up with tunneling, quantum tunneling. A particle can tunnel through a wall, that sort of thing. So you have a wave function. And typically, what is a wave function? The wave function is a probability density. It's not a density, it's a density of probabilities. And the complex conjugate of the wave function, you have to take the complex conjugate, input the mechanics, and so on. So the wave function tells you that it's a fuzzy distribution of probabilities. It kind of tells you that the particle could be in all these different positions at this time. We don't know quite, we know what the probabilities of each are. So from that perspective, the particle is in multiple positions at the same time, potentially. We don't know where it is. How do we know where it is? By making, by observing it. But when we observe it, all the probability distribution collapses into just one point. That's called the collapse of the wave function. So as long as we don't observe the electron, it is in multiple positions at the same time. Let's consider, think of it that way. But when we make an observation, it's no longer in multiple positions. It's all these positions collapse in, and only one is left where that's where we observe it. So that's the observer problem. It's not really the observer problem, it's a measurement problem. Because an observation is a measurement. What do I mean by that? How do I know the electron is, let's say, here? By making a measurement. How do I make a measurement? If I want to detect an electron, I have to use a probe or something. I have to use light, something, right? But at the scale of the electron, which is such a small particle, even if I hit it with a photon, the electron's properties will get affected by that. Its position will get affected. The photon will hit the electron, the electron will bounce away somewhere else. So even making a small measurement changes what you are measuring in quantum mechanics, and that's the measurement or the observer problem, that by making a measurement, you are collapsing the wave function and you are affecting the state of the system, right? So whether it is you, whether it is whoever, by making a measurement, you are changing what you are measuring. You're changing it. How are you changing it? Maybe the position, maybe the momentum of what you're measuring. Because to measure the position of an electron, you have to use something physical, either a photon, which is a particle of light, or something else. Even if you hit an electron with a photon to see where it is, the photon imparts momentum to the electron, and that changes the position of the electron, the speed of the electron, the momentum of the electron. So you're changing what you're measuring. So your measurement, you see, it's affecting what you're measuring, and that's what collapses the wave function. Um, so what's your question? Solipsism, solipsism is a philosophical concept. Even if you're the only thing that can collapse a wave function, you are not the only thing. It's your photon. It's your measuring apparatus that collapses the wave function. It's not you who collapses it. So it's not like consciousness is collapsing the wave function. It is the act of measuring the electron that's collapsing the wave function, and others' observation for no, okay, so that's the thing, that's the issue.

S says, "What are voids? Do galaxies exist inside voids?" Voids are places or regions of the universe where there is nothing. There are no stars. There are no galaxies. It's just big, black, and dark. Big, big, big regions, light-years across, maybe thousands of light-years across with nothing essentially inside them. Maybe there's dark matter in there, but that's anyway, by definition, dark. Uh, do galaxies, if something exists inside it, it will not be called a void. So typically, you don't have anything inside a void. The one of the big voids is called the Boötes void. Let's, let's Google that. Boötes void. B-O-T-E-S. Yeah. It means, so it's 700 million light-years away and it is 330 million light-years in diameter. Ooh. Imagine that. That's a void. Check it out, right? So nothing exists inside. That's why it's called a void. If there was something inside, it would not be called a void. You may have some stars may exist or whatever, but overall, the density of whatever exists inside it is very low compared to what's outside the void. Okay.

Pina says, "Is it possible to display all the live chats, not just super chat, all live chats on your screen? I know you won't be able to do that, but I'm curious to know about it. Also, please do a member-specific stream." Uh, display all the live chats on the screen. Can I do that? How about that? Here we have all the live chats on the screen. Yay. Let's go. Chatting away. Chatting away. And you'll be able to see your chats on the screen. So, this is going to be all chats, not just super chats. All the live chats. If that's what you want, well, I can, I can put it on screen. I'm not sure what purpose it will serve, but if you want to see your chats, if you want to see your chats on the screen, if that's what you would like me to do, I have absolutely no issue to do that. Hello, Spain too. Hello, Hot Flame Edits. Yes. Hello, Hersai Camcho. Yeah. So, so if you want, I can put it on screen. I have, I have no problem doing that. Yeah. Um, member-specific stream, I'll, I'll consider that.

Ashai says, "Supernova here is big bang of another, another universe, opinion." I think supernovas are industrial accidents. Now, a supernova is not a big bang of another, another universe. It's simply a star dying in a spectacularly violent fashion. And why does that happen? It happens because electron degeneracy pressure first of all fails. Yeah, it's because electron degeneracy pressure fails, which is a quantum mechanical phenomenon. And if neutron degeneracy pressure fails, then something else happens which causes something totally different from a supernova. Yeah. Yeah. Electron degeneracy pressure fails, that's where you have a supernova. Neutron degeneracy pressure fails, that's where you have a black hole. Some stars just wink out of existence without ever going supernova, depending on the size and mass.

Vir Kamat says, "If a total escalation flattening occurs, what is the risk of retaliatory strikes on GCC cities? Trying to gauge the safety of family in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Is retaliatory flattening against civilians likely?" I think it is highly unlikely. I think it's highly unlikely. U.S. If it launches massive airstrikes, as it is possible, they may cause significant, like you say, flattening. Like I also say, flattening of Iranian cities. Like, I don't think Iran will go after, will want to destroy entire cities. They will target US military bases and aircraft carriers and US assets. I don't think they will start indiscriminately flattening cities in Bahrain or Saudi Arabia. I don't think so. The Iranians aren't monsters. Yeah, I don't think they will do that. I, I doubt it very seriously. Iran won't do any retaliatory flattening. They will simply try to destroy the American assets in the region. And typically, American military bases are not close to cities, you know it. I mean, in Bahrain, there is the American Fifth Fleet headquarters, which is not far at all from Manama. But that has already been obliterated, as far as I know. I'm not sure if the Americans can bring more troops or whatever there. But if that is operational, then it is not safe to be in Bahrain, in my opinion. I don't think the Iranians will target Manama as such, but they will target the Fifth Fleet headquarters, which is not far at all from Manama. It's next door. So that makes it a dangerous place for civilians to be if it is still operational. Saudi Arabia, I don't think there's much danger to people in civilian areas. Okay. So, yeah, that's what I can tell you. Uh, but you know, do your own due diligence for your family. You will know the conditions better. So, all the best to you and your family. I hope everyone stays safe.

Honkar says, "Are ghosts real? If not, why so many cultures have ghosts?" I don't know. Are ghosts real? I haven't seen one, so I can't say. But yeah, every culture has these stories of ghosts, which raises interesting questions. These stories have been around forever, right? So, are ghosts real? I don't know. I don't know. I can't say. And good night. Good night to you, sir. Good night. Thank you. Thank you for the questions.

Pushina says, "If Japan someday becomes a sovereign nation and frees their constitution and education in the US from the US, could they return back to the same dangerous imperial plan? Dangerous imperial Japan? You know what they did in under China?" If Japan becomes a sovereign nation and frees their constitution and education from the US and their culture from the US. See, why did Japan become what it became? It's because of the Meiji Restoration, which was a coup against the Japanese emperor. The guys who did the coup were the guys who were supposed to serve the emperor, and they took over the running of the country, but they kept the emperor as the figurehead. And then they turned Japan into a Western-styled nation, free of ethics and morals, and they essentially tried to destroy Dharma in Japan. Japan is historically a Dharmic civilization. Dharmic as in Hindu, Buddhist, mixed with Shinto. Shinto is the original polytheistic culture of Japan, and that got mixed with Hinduism, Buddhism. Every Hindu god and goddess is worshiped in Japan with Japanese names, even today. So the Meiji Restoration was about the eradication of Dharma, and it did not succeed completely, but they were able to completely destroy the samurai culture. The samurai were Dharmic warriors. They were like the Rajputs of Japan, the Kshatriyas of Japan. They destroyed the samurai tradition and they created the secular, adharmic armed force, which is why Japan did whatever it did during the Second World War. Imperial Japan. Japan was always an imperial nation. It's not like Japan was imperial only in 1940, in the 1940s, right? So as long as Japan doesn't go down that road, it'll be fine if it becomes a sovereign nation. Yeah.

Prasad says, "About mixing science and spirituality. Great scientists Newton, Leonardo were mystics, believed." I know that. Yeah, I know. I know. But they never mixed science and spirituality. They never mixed science and religion. Werner Heisenberg, he was very interested in Vedanta, in Hinduism. So was Erwin Schrödinger. But do you see that entering their equations? They never mixed science with religion. Newton was a crackpot. He wanted to do alchemy, right? He spent much of his life after writing the Principia trying to discover the way of turning lead into gold. He was a believer in Christianity. But you don't see that in his equations. Georges Lemaître, the guy who discovered what's called the Big Bang theory, he was a Catholic priest. Do you see Catholicism in his equations? You never mix science and religion. You never mix science and spirituality. A scientist may have whatever beliefs. Srinivasa Ramanujan was a devout Hindu. He said multiple times that his equations came to him in dreams, given by Goddess Namagiri, right? But his equations are mathematics. You don't see mantras in those equations. As a scientist, you never mix science and spirituality. Please understand this, okay? It's, I'm sure it's hard for non-scientists to understand this, but that is a discipline. If you breach the discipline, you are no longer a scientist, and your work is no longer reliable. That's just how it is, all right? That's just how it is, my friends.

Rohit says, "Why can't illegal be used as lab experiments for India's benefit?" You know, there are nations. You know, for example, biological weapons have been banned in the world. Chemical weapons have been banned in the world. But I assure you, the most powerful nations, they do chemical weapons research. They do biological weapons research. Whenever there's an epidemic, Ebola or whatever, China and the US send scientists ostensibly to treat the people. Why are they actually there? To take samples of the new virus. So everyone does it. Every self-respecting nation should stay abreast of whatever is happening in the world.

Prasad says, "Do you believe in homeopathy based on alchemy?" I don't believe in homeopathy. I don't. That's the short answer. I don't.

Jagada says, "Visited Odisha for the first time. Which kings' dynasties built these giant temples like Konark, Puri, and others in Bhuneshwar? No mention in the history books. Locals said Ananta, but could not get much details." Good question. Um, I am not, I can't remember right now. Kharavela, who, which dynasty was he from? Let me see. Um, so Kharavela was the emperor of Kalinga, the second or first century BC. I forget the name of the dynasty. Which dynasty was this? Um, Mahameghavahana. Mahameghavahana dynasty, right? So Kharavela was one of the great emperors of India, not just Kalinga, right? So the thing is, Odisha's history is like, you know, history books don't teach you Odisha's history. Okay, here we are. Okay, we're back. You know, Odisha is neglected by India's history textbooks. Glorious history. They have contributed so much to our civilization. It is Kalinga that started the process of the Indianization and Hinduization of the entirety of Southeast Asia. Great merchants, great seafarers, great dynasties, great architecture, some of the nicest people you will find in India, the people of Odisha. And it's a tragedy that the contributions of Kalinga, of Odisha, are forgotten today. Yeah.

Pycraft Deepak Singh says, "Waterloo CS with 2-year co-op versus Toronto want okay, Waterloo computer science with 2-year co-op versus the University of Toronto want computer programming self-projects, deep LLM AI core fear. University of Toronto's rigid computer science academics kills self-learning time. Waterloo can lose. University of Toronto, Toronto's AI CS curriculum, death. I need your advice." I have absolutely no idea about this. I'm very sorry. I'm not an expert in the various curriculums, curricula of various universities. I don't know about this. I could sit down and do some research for an hour or so, that would give me a better idea after going through every program in detail, but you have to consult a professional about this. Somebody who studies these things in detail and can give you actual actionable advice to students. I don't know about this. I wish I knew about this and I wish I could give you the answer you seek, but I don't know. Yeah. I don't know what University of Toronto is offering. I don't know what Waterloo is offering. I don't know the details of their curricula. I don't know the pros and cons of each. I am very sorry, but I don't know. I, I'm very sorry about this. I don't have the answer for you. You're going to have to consult a professional. There are professionals who specialize in these things. They study each university department's offerings in detail, and they can tell you quickly which one is better suited for what you are seeking. So please do that. All right. All the best to you, Deepak Singh. All the best to you. Do well.

Jakara says, "BrahMos production hit by 50%. Check news. Really? So wrong. First NavIC, then this government caught sleeping again." Let me find out. BrahMos production hit, really? BrahMos production hit by 50%. Really? BrahMos production crashes over 50% due to staff exodus. BrahMos NG next generation, new generation delays. Indian news portal NBT Online, part of Times of India, has reported based on inputs from so-called reliable sources that the production of BrahMos missiles has plunged to below 50% of the level achieved a year ago, and this drop in production is attributed to the transfer of around 56 employees from Hyderabad to Lucknow and Pilani over the last six months, which has led to employee disgruntlement and resignations. Well, this sounds like a terrible thing if it's true. If it's true, BrahMos, I am NGT. What? What NGT news? What is it? NBT Online. Where is that? Why am I seeing it over here then? NBT Online. Where is NBT Online? Is it Noat Times? BrahMos may mass transfer, KMachari, missile production, navy order late. Good God, if this is true, it's terrible. If this is true, if this is true, it's terrible. The government needs to intervene as soon as possible, at the earliest, and fix this issue, whatever it is. Yeah.

Pusha says, "On what basis you said that Kami Iran were moderates when they were the boss of IRGC, the same outfit responsible for the training of more than a dozen groups across the Middle East to conduct attacks?" Which more than a dozen groups? To conduct attacks on whom? Iran is an active geopolitical player. It has allies such as the Houthis, the Ansar Allah faction in Yemen. It also has allies in Iraq, the Shia allies. It had an ally in Syria. It has an ally in Hezbollah, which is again Shia, and so on. Why should you not have allies? Why should you not have allies and why should you not use groups in the region when you are surrounded by your enemies? Tell me, why should you not do that? Should Iran have approached, have undertaken, have employed a Gandhian approach, spin khadi, and profess non-violence? Is that what Iran should have done? Iran is following exactly what Chanakya said any nation should follow, right? Iran is not a terrorist nation, despite whatever the Americans claim. Iran is not Pakistan. Iran has never behaved the way Pakistan behaves. Kami gave a fatwa against nuclear weapons. Is that not the hallmark of a moderate person? If Iran was not a moderate nation, they would have by now had a lot of nuclear weapons. You understand? Okay, please understand. There's a reason why I said that.

Pushina says, "Is it good news that the Israeli government has begun the process of migrating those so-called lost Jewish tribes from India's Manipur to Israel? If they are miscreants, let them get off from India. I will be happy the day Israel takes all of them away. We welcome this. If Israel wants to take the 78 lakh Kukis from India and settle them in Israel, please, please take them. They have just taken 250 of them, right? There are lakhs of Kukis who have infiltrated into India and who are occupying more than half of Manipur. You go to Manipur, you will find Israeli flags there. Do you know that? That's the situation. 250 will make no difference to us. That's the issue. That's the issue. Okay."

P says, "No sir. I asked whether you could put out every single live chat in big form like how is it? There are hundreds of live chats. It's not possible to display them all and answer them, right? That's why I've switched to super chats. There's a reason I have switched to super chats in the past few months. Earlier, I used to do live chats. Right? In live chats, there's a lot of conversations happening between you all, which is good. But then it's hard to find good questions that are valuable for the audience to see. A lot of questions aren't, if I answer them, they aren't valuable to the audience. I may have answered some of them hundreds of times or dozens of times. So I want to find questions whose answers will genuinely give long-term value to you, my audience. So that's why it is better to do super chats because if somebody pays to ask a question, they will ask good questions. So since I started using super chats, the quality of questions has improved. Okay. If I start displaying each of these live chats one by one, then when will I ever answer good questions? Explain, explain to me, Pusha. So that's why it is not possible. It's fine. Yeah, that's why it's not possible to do that."

VSVS, good to see you. Good to see you. Uh, Namaste. Yes. If you had a 10 crore net worth, how many cars would you have? And what cars would you have? And what would their combined value be for you to find it financially healthy? What would be their, if I had a 10 crore debt? What? How many cars would I have? How many cars would I have? Maybe one or two. One or two, maybe one. What's the need to have 15 cars? I don't see any value in that. Even if I had a 100 crore net worth, if I had a hundred million dollars net worth, I don't think I would need more than one or two cars. I would not need that. If you have wealth, you should not waste it buying things which you don't need, right? One car, I suppose, is enough. Maybe two cars, one regular and one larger one if needed. That's a maximum two I can think of. Even two must mean would be overkill. Uh, what's a good amount of money to be financially healthy? Um, good amount of money to be financially healthy. I would say 10 crores is a decent start, I would say. Yeah. Globally, I would say if you have 5-10 million, then you are comfortably poor. Okay. Okay.

Fabin Thomas says, "I know, I know many people who live in the US are naturalized. Some are born there, but now they are scared and face racism. Do you see similarities to 1930s Deutschland Germany?" Not yet. I don't see similarities with 1930s Germany yet. Not yet. But Trump is pushing things in that direction. That rant that he put out, by whom, which was by somebody else, that he put out on his Truth Social, that was seriously inflammatory and racist against Indians and Chinese. That was white supremacy nonsense. Trump is a dangerous guy for the world, you know. Uh, so it's, I don't see it being similar to 1930s Germany yet, but it's definitely not going to be a comfortable environment for Indians and Chinese and non-white people to be in right now in the US.

Pratikumar Roy says, "Amisha Mishra one asks says, asks why legendary leaders like Bal Gangadhar Tilak and others of the time had conservative views on women because of conditioning." I don't know. I don't know the history of Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Did he have conservative views on women? I have no idea. I don't know his life story. I, I don't know his views. I have no idea. I am not a student of India's so-called freedom struggle and our so-called freedom fighters. I'm sure Mr. Tilak was a great, great man. I'm not saying he is a so-called freedom fighter. I'm just saying most of these people who are today considered freedom fighters, all they did was do a fast for 24 hours or something and protest against the British. Fasting for 24 hours. Uh-huh. I, I'm not sure what Mr. Tilak's views were. Uh, conservative views on women. See, in the 19th century, everybody had conservative views on women. We were under foreign occupation for almost 900 years by the time, including 700 years by the Turks. When a nation is under foreign occupation by monsters like the Turks, who regard women as pieces of meat, when it becomes natural for the society's culture to change and for us to keep our women hidden away and under wraps, then everybody develops conservative views on women. So that explains the shift in India's culture from 100 AD to 200 AD. We were under horrific, brutal foreign occupation and oppression for so long. First was the Turks and then the British. So that caused the change in our views and our the way we regarded women. If you see our carvings and sculptures of women in around 1000 AD, not just in temples but in stepwells, etc., Rani ki Vav, for example, you will see women were not covered up like they were in 1900, right? So that change in views happened over a millennium because of foreign occupation. I don't know about Mr. Tilak and his views. I have no idea. But overall, that's the reason.

Gulibar says, "Why legendary leaders like Bal Gangadhar, why, why is the same question again?" Okay, somebody else has taken up this question for Amisha. That's so nice of you, Gulibar. And the previous person, thank you so much for being so kind. Amisha is one of the most active members of this channel. I really appreciate the questions she asks about history, and we will soon resume the history things as well. Yeah, once this situation dies out a little, and I'm sure Amisha will have a lot more very interesting questions to ask. So thank you.

A says, "I watched the Project Hail Mary movie. Bad movie, but the book was good. It said traveling 11 light-years at 92% of the speed of light will take four to five years due to time dilation per Einstein's laws. Discuss on this." Look, I have to do some calculations to figure out. Uh, the book was excellent. I have recommended the book. Um, the time dilation factor. See, listen, I'm not going to sit and calculate right now how long it'll take at 92% of the speed of light. Whatever time it takes. Uh, maybe the physics a little bit was wrong, but overall, I watched the movie. Overall, it was good. I don't think the movie was bad. Bad movie, really? There was no wokeness. There was no politics in there. The movie flowed along at a pretty rapid rate. I thought the movie was good. Uh, I didn't pay attention to how much time it took or whatever. Um, yeah. So, discussion is very simple discussion about this. There is something called special relativity, which has the concept of time dilation. There's a factor, gamma, v² by c², that you have to plug into the equation, and that's how you get how much time dilation you get. Now, I'm not going to sit and do the calculations here, but okay.

Right says, "Do you come from a royal family, ex-princely state?" Well, well, uh, my family, my surname is Chavda, right? So there used to be, Gujarat was once ruled by Chavdas, okay? Gujarat, Western India. The Chavda dynasty, which happens to be my ancestors. Yes, but that is more than a thousand years ago. Not a princely state. Never a princely state. Princely states were vassal states of the British. The Chavda dynasty and the kingdom was an actual kingdom, not a princely state. It was never under British suzerainty, right? So the Chavda dynasty was from somewhere in the 600 ADs to the middle of 900 AD, around 950 AD, about 250 or so, about 250-300 years it ruled over Gujarat, various parts of Gujarat, right? So, yeah, that's those were my ancestors, yeah. So, yeah, that's the story in brief, but that's not relevant anymore. That's more than a thousand years ago. That's more than a thousand years ago. That's hardly relevant today. Okay.

Pratipar Roy says, "Science episode request. Good night everybody." All right. Thank you so much and good night. Good night to you. And science episode. Yeah, I'll do it one of these days. I'll do it.

Fabin Thomas says, "Ideology is a tool of power. Why do masses need it? Why does a person need one? Isn't every single ideology truth editing and repetition?" Okay. Um, ideology is the tool of power. It's a, it's a tool of politics, and politics is a tool of power. Yeah. Yeah. Why do masses need it? Because masses need a purpose. Masses need a purpose. Masses need a framework that outsources their thinking to it. That's why masses also need religion, right? See, thinking is difficult for most people. Thinking is very hard. It hurts your brain to think. Most people just want to be told what to think and what to do. They don't want to decide, is this right or is this wrong? They just need a framework, right? That's where ideologies come in. That's where religion also comes in. Hinduism is not really a religion. It's a civilizational framework, right? So, um, the thing is, most people don't want to think. Most people want to be told what to think, what to believe, and what to say, and so on. And that's where ideology comes in. It's that easy, right? Uh, and yeah, most ideologies are about truth editing, interpretation, and so on. Most of them, you're right. That's that's the thing. All right. Okay. So, that was the last question for today. All right. Uh, so I will end this here. Thank you so much, everybody. Thank you so much for the questions and for your viewership. As always, keep learning, keep asking questions, keep raising your standards. Keep raising your standards. Even if it is like one person per week, still keep raising your standards. Uh, so I'll see you very soon in the next one. Until then, take care and goodbye. Good night. Good day for now. See.

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