“India has ambitions to become first a continental and then a regional power,” Rahul Bedi, a South Asia analyst with London-based Jane’s Defence Weekly, told The Associated Press. “To become a big boy, you need to project your power.” — how sad and misguided is that.
about time we abandon this masculinist model of arming countries to the teeth in order to project a “big boy” image. and it’s not just about image either – it’s about inflicting harm on human beings and the planet itself – the only home we have. so israel likes to be a “biting dog”, india wants to be a regional military power that also persecutes and brutally occupies at home, pakistan spends most of its budget on defense when many pakistanis don’t have food or clean water, and the united states goes swaggering around the world – oh killings a few million people here and there and leaving some depleted uranium behind as a souvenir. it’s complete madness. enough alpha male posturing, enough violence, enough greed. this model does NOT work. now let’s try something diff. let’s empower women like wangari maathai.
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