Score one for India. While the West focuses on West problems, China is up to no good at the Indian border. But India knows winter is coming in that mountainous area and has stocked up on Russian tanks built to traverse the worst Siberia has to offer. Will they get to use them? Brad Johnson says we shall see.
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brad johnson october 7 2020
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you know there’s one thing that the
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indians do really well it’s jingoism
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and i’ve been watching indian news
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reports
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and they’ve really they have a color
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commentator it’s like watching the super
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bowl
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but one certainly does get even once you
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filter out that kind of
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the hyperbole and the jingoism and
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indian news reports
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you really do get the sense that there
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is a serious military buildup between
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china and india
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you also get the sense that uh the
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chinese aren’t being very s
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honest with what they’re saying versus
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what they’re doing
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on these borders especially in the sort
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of tibetan territory
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what can you tell us about that please
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well i can 100 confirm to anyone who’s
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interested ladies and gentlemen boys and
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girls of chinese are absolutely liars
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so they’ll you know if they’re talking
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they’re lying you can pretty much count
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on that
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so yeah i would distrust anything that
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comes out of china uh
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you know there’s a chance some kernel of
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it is true but generally speaking
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they’re only interested in producing
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propaganda
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and so they’ll they will take one little
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piece of good news
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and spin off a whole alternate universe
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of of propaganda trying to make
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themselves look good so that’s china
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uh now what’s been going on is kind of
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an interesting development
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in the scheme of things with all of the
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other things that are absorbing so much
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news and attention from the west uh
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presidential election here in the united
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states which is coming up in what
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two weeks and or three weeks
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and uh uh you know the fighting in
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the nagorno-karabakh region with turkey
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and russia and armenia
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and uh azerbaijan with that backdrop
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uh china is kind of quietly up to no
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good just trying to further their
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own interests something that’s widely
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recognized by the people close to china
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by the other countries close to china
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and specifically i’m talking about india
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in this case and up in that border
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area that’s where there’s been fighting
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going on
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uh smaller scale fighting between
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chinese and indian troops
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the um indians have moved
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a large number of tanks and other
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equipment trucks
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into that area and have also bought some
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uh far more sophisticated uh drones
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and they spent 600 million on on buying
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some some
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very sophisticated drones so they’ve
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moved up a real force into that area
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up near the chinese border so now of
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course it could be defensive it could be
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offensive
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generally speaking tanks are considered
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to be an
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offensive weapon more than a defensive
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weapon
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but certainly you know they’re used in
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every way you can think of
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all the time but one of the interesting
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aspects out of this and this has been
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touched on a little bit
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is that india has an advantage over
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china in the sense that
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their tanks and trucks and equipment of
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that nature
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they buy from russia now why would that
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be an advantage well this is a
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mountainous area don’t forget so very
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cold
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desolate uh places something that
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neither china nor india has tremendous
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expertise on
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winterizing equipment is a big deal now
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who does have expertise on that
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and who’s really good at it russia and
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so where is it where does india get this
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stuff
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russia so having winterized prepared
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troops vehicles equipment
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drones you know air support to back it
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up in this desolate difficult region
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uh advanta the advantage now suddenly
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goes to
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india i mentioned it only because if you
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wanted to
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have india take it back to china because
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china’s been the aggressor had been
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coming over the border and doing things
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and running into indian troops and
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attacking them claiming this territory
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and so on
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if you wanted a counter-offensive this
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might be an excellent way to do it
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because the chinese are ill-prepared for
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winter fighting
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not that the indians are great experts
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at it but with their equipment they
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would have a huge advantage
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and uh and like i said the russians they
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know they know how to fight in those
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cold winters in siberia and
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running the equipment around and all of
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that stuff they’ve learned all those
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tricks so
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uh i think this is something where they
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would have a significant advantage
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and if they desire to do so could go
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across the border and be
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very effective against chinese is it
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something that
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my thoughts on it are you know no proof
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who knows what’s in their mind
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but my thoughts on it are it’s it’s a
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stick that they’re holding out
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they now have the option over the winter
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of going into china
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they wouldn’t go very far it would be
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just a little regional thing to kind of
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kick them in the butt and let them know
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that they can get their butts kicked and
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uh
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and then back back off to the border or
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something like that and see what happens
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that’s been the nature of the fighting
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there that’s what the chinese have done
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to the indians
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so now the indians are in a position to
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do it to the chinese will they you know
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i don’t know
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but at least i think from their
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perspective they now have that option
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will they need it yeah we’ll see as the
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russians would say
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we’ll see
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