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Mains 2021 Result declared - In or Out?

So Mains 2021 has begun. Essay Paper is here

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2. GS Paper 1 : https://blog.forumias.com/download-upsc-ias-mains-2021-gs-1-question-paper

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root,Neyawnand26 otherslike this
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russia ne bola tha USA ko kripiya likhit me dijie ukraine nato nai banega. unse itna nai hua. toh jhelo fir.
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I am more interested in actions of those who criticise Non alignment and call their policy by myriad names including strategic autonomy and multi alignment. History has presented an opportunity to test their rhetoric that India should have aligned with USA during cold war. Ab toh align kar jao usa se jaldi. Nhi toh fir agli saal essay me likh ke aaunga history repeats first as tragedy secondly as farce
Villanelle,plmokn25688524and1 otherslike this
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Bhai why r u getting angry ~being angry on being questioned doesn't reflect good traits .🙄

Antineutrino ,Villanelleand2 otherslike this
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@Bubba_gump people are asking in a sarcastic way to kindly elaborate. and have no arguments of their own. thats the reason. i have to type such long arguments only to get no reply. i realised long back that internt chatting is useless timewaste but sometimes it leads to this.


nerdslayer,sjerngal
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2008: offering nato membership to ukaine. 

ukraine if accepted nato membership would let murica install nuclear missiles right at the gates of russia

latvia estonia lithuania are already nato members

you are basically encircling russia from all sides

ukraine under nato means black sea gone for russia.

last time i checked india is also a informal nato member (of sorts), yes there is such a scheme in nato. ill get you the name in sometime. it was in vision monthly.

so when russia is being encircled like that, then why should it not see these activites of us as a threat. anf its not the earstwhile weak ussr.

economy: i cant mention anything more than nord stream here. europe is largely russian dependent.

ukraine by the way has a large russian supporting population.

please read a bit of current affairs before asking "please elaborate"

if i have an opinion, i have my set of arguments to back it up.

and about history: start from iranian war, iraq war, afghan war, vietnamese war. 

about the modus operandi of usa: watch documentaries.


Let me point out the logical fallacies here, before I go and read the vision monthly and get my current affairs😊.


You're assuming that being a NATO member means America will place nuclear missiles there. Wow! Does Ukraine has any with them at present? Nope.

And for your current affairs, let me tell you that Ukraine was once upon a time, the third largest nuclear armed power in the world! It had acquired thousands of nuclear weapons from USSR, when it became independent. Then, Ukraine voluntarily "de nuclearised" itself and in return, Russia and USA both agreed to protect Ukraine! (Google the name of that agreement).


Second, Ukraine didn't promise Russia or anyone that it won't be a member of NATO in future. As an independent democracy, it has every right to be part of any association it desires to. As long as that doesn't do any harm to Russia (no harm so far and no indication for it too), it shouldn't be Russia's concern. Otherwise, by your argument, China can attack India too, as we're getting closer to USA and QUAD is strengthening!

Economy, Nord stream blah blah blah (incomprehensible argument, so no reply deserved).

"Ukraine has a large Russia supporting population": So what? Russia can invade? Come on, even Pakistan makes better arguments!


"please read a bit of current affairs before asking "please elaborate": when you say something, the other person can ask you to elaborate. That doesn't mean the other person has no knowledge at all about the issue. It only means, that other person would like to know why you think like that. Don't resort to Ad hominem attacks.


"if i have an opinion, i have my set of arguments to back it up": you must have, and I was simply asking for those arguments (but unfortunately, I couldn't find any).

"and about history: start from iranian war, iraq war, afghan war, vietnamese war" : explain the relevance of these wars wrt the current Ukraine position. How do these wars justify the present Russian invasion. Without that, all these references are simple gibberish.


"about the modus operandi of usa: watch documentaries": well, you can watch so many documentaries about Putin too. The only relevant point should be, what did USA did in Ukraine, which justified the Russian action. As I explained above, just being a NATO member isn't enough ground for an invasion.

So here I go to read the vision monthly😊👍🏽

MikeWozniak,Villanelleand5 otherslike this
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@Capedcrusader1 kill their sarcasm with ur humility 😉


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@Bubba_gump people are asking in a sarcastic way to kindly elaborate. and have no arguments of their own. thats the reason. i have to type such long arguments only to get no reply. i realised long back that internt chatting is useless timewaste but sometimes it leads to this.


😂

You're great👍🏽😁

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2008: offering nato membership to ukaine. 

ukraine if accepted nato membership would let murica install nuclear missiles right at the gates of russia

latvia estonia lithuania are already nato members

you are basically encircling russia from all sides

ukraine under nato means black sea gone for russia.

last time i checked india is also a informal nato member (of sorts), yes there is such a scheme in nato. ill get you the name in sometime. it was in vision monthly.

so when russia is being encircled like that, then why should it not see these activites of us as a threat. anf its not the earstwhile weak ussr.

economy: i cant mention anything more than nord stream here. europe is largely russian dependent.

ukraine by the way has a large russian supporting population.

please read a bit of current affairs before asking "please elaborate"

if i have an opinion, i have my set of arguments to back it up.

and about history: start from iranian war, iraq war, afghan war, vietnamese war. 

about the modus operandi of usa: watch documentaries.


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Bhai why r u getting angry ~being angry on being questioned doesn't reflect good traits .🙄

I hope the interview board doesn't ask him to elaborate😂

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@Capedcrusader1 kill their sarcasm with ur humility 😉


I wasn't being sarcastic. Don't know why he felt that way. I was simply asking out of curiosity, why when the whole world seems to oppose Putin, he supports him. I was ready to accept his view if he could substantiate it (ofcourse, after some googling). But instead, he comes up with some ad hominem attacks (that I don't know current affairs, I don't know history etc). 

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@Philip_Marlowe with all due respect, badi upar upar ki news dekhte ho ya padhte ho. but no problem. ill have my opinion you have yours.


Philip_Marlowe,
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@MarcusA kafi black and white h russia ke sath


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aur yahan pe koi real reason nahin aya h ki kyun russia ko invasion rok dena chaiye. siwai meri points pe banduk rakh ke mere pe hi goli chalane ke so..

thats called having no arguments of your own and engaging in whataboutery.

i say its about because of A reason that this should happen. one goes "no see, A reason has these many flaws"  as if i were explaining why A reason is justified on various historical grounds, which could easily take a different debate.

or something like that but they wont come with a new B reason to substantiate their original point. ofcourse, unnecessary offence taking has to be the norm.  

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It’s not just the NATO issue, Putin’s speech from a few days back calling collapse of USSR as the greatest catastrophe of 20th century, and claiming Ukraine…now how is that any less irredentist than China? 
Antineutrino ,plmokn25688524and4 otherslike this
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aur yahan pe koi real reason nahin aya h ki kyun russia ko invasion rok dena chaiye. siwai meri points pe banduk rakh ke mere pe hi goli chalane ke so..

thats called having no arguments of your own and engaging in whataboutery.

i say its about because of A reason that this should happen. one goes "no see, A reason has these many flaws"  as if i were explaining why A reason is justified on various historical grounds, which could easily take a different debate.

or something like that but they wont come with a new B reason to substantiate their original point. ofcourse, unnecessary offence taking has to be the norm.  

You're 100% right bro. I agree completely with you😊 (now, this is sarcasm).

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Anyone from Madhya pradesh preparing for interview ?


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@Bubba_gump i am having a bad day is all. nothing to do with the banter here. usually i respond with humility or dont reply at all. its a once in a blue moon that this happens. 
Bubba_gump,
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I have been heavily invested in the Ukraine Russia issue over the past few days. Declaring war is definitely something that Putin should have avoided but as Carl von Clausewitz said, "War is the continuation of politics by other means". 


I feel that the NATO issue Russia has is a justified one. Russia is a great power and every great power has ambitions of maintaining a sphere of influence around itself. USA has its Monroe doctrine and any intervention by any Country in the Americas is a strict No no. It has assassinated leaders, killed people, went to war over it, supported dictatorships in the Latin America and South America over any attempt by those countries to break free from US influence. In a similar way, India has maintained a sphere of influence around it in the form of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Nepal. If any of these countries attempt to form a NATOesque military alliance with China, we would absolutely go bonkers over it. So Russian invasion is not something that is an anomaly. It's just following the footsteps of what great powers do to achieve its goals and ends. 


Things which really complicate the matters is the presence of Neo nazi elements in Ukrainian national Guard(Azov battalion) and when USA supports Ukraine by supplying them with Weapons and Cash, it inevitably strengthens these far right elements. 


All said and done, diplomacy should have been the best way but I am guessing diplomacy didn't get Russia what it wanted hence war. 

Dionysus,EiChanand10 otherslike this
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there are somethings which i notice in the attitude of us. they think that only they have the moral authority to increase their sphere of influence. they do not respect borders. they only think in economic terms. sell weapons and leave countries in war. 

there was a video of trump with MBS. he was sitting next to him in an official meet and was acting like a total businessman which is, by holding a chart if you will which had offers of military equipment. luring mbs to buy his weapons as they are mere peanuts for him

as of now biden is saying that russia will be help accountable. what about holding them accountable for afghanistan. all they did was enable taliban with high grade military systems. no accountability for other regional wars too

chamomile,nerdslayerand1 otherslike this
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there are somethings which i notice in the attitude of us. they think that only they have the moral authority to increase their sphere of influence. they do not respect borders. they only think in economic terms. sell weapons and leave countries in war. 

there was a video of trump with MBS. he was sitting next to him in an official meet and was acting like a total businessman which is, by holding a chart if you will which had offers of military equipment. luring mbs to buy his weapons as they are mere peanuts for him

as of now biden is saying that russia will be help accountable. what about holding them accountable for afghanistan. all they did was enable taliban with high grade military systems. no accountability for other regional wars too

When Putin declared, the fall of USSR was the greatest geopolitical disaster in last century, he had a point. After USSR fell, US got a free hand to do as it wished where it wanted. NATO intervened in Kosovo, despite UNSC voting against it and complicated matters more. US intervened in Iraq on WMD pretexts and look what happened. A string of interventions followed Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine. Had there been Soviet Union, maybe the results would not have been so catastrophic as they are now. There would have been a check on the complete lack of accountability in USA's show of power all over World. Yes there were Vietnam ans Korean War in the cold War era too but such wars brought out the possibility of showing twin sides of the issue. Now with the sole superpower status, USA abides by the maxim of it's my way or the highway.

EiChan,chamomileand2 otherslike this
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