Geopolitics-geostrategics post-Sindoor, after Trump-tariff rift

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Bharat Karnad

This CHAKRA podcast “Why Trump Turned on India & Why It Backfired: The Sandeep Unnithan Show” was recorded on Aug 29, 2025 with Sandeep Unnithan.

It was an hour long recording trimmed to fit a half-hour slot!

About Bharat Karnad

Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, he was Member of the (1st) National Security Advisory Board and the Nuclear Doctrine-drafting Group, and author, among other books of, 'Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security: The Realist Foundations of Strategy', 'India's Nuclear Policy' and most recently, 'Why India is Not a Great Power (Yet)'. Educated at the University of California (undergrad and grad), he was Visiting Scholar at Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, the Shanghai Institutes of International Studies, and Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, DC.

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3 Responses to Geopolitics-geostrategics post-Sindoor, after Trump-tariff rift

Nuclear General says:

September 7, 2025 at 3:26 pm

So according to wikkipedia The Agni-5 missile has an estimated Circular Error Probable (CEP) of under 10 meters, single digit which is a high level of accuracy for a ballistic missile, achieved through its advanced ring laser gyroscope Inertial Navigation System (RINS) augmented by GPS/NavIC satellite guidance and a redundant micro-navigation system

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VikramSharma says:

September 8, 2025 at 3:56 am

Tariffs have very little to do with Nobel, Russian oil or Trump feeling slighted , that’s just a smokescreen, Navarro has been talking about sanctioning/tariffing India since the pandemic on Bannon’s War Room show, and even before that.

Americans want to reindustralize their economy and restructure their debt while keeping their global empire intact; with probably some concession(G2) to China. They rightly see us and our system as pliable/penetrated/week enough to comply with their demands, hence the testing of limits.

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Ranveer says:

September 8, 2025 at 4:06 pm

For India, there is no path from third world to first that goes through democracy. If we insist on continuing on this path we’ll go nowhere, and will feel icreasingly demoralized to see the gap between China and India widened.

No matter how good or efficient a wooden scooner aspires to be, it can not compete with metal frigate. It needs a paradigm shift from wood to metal.

We too need paradigm shifts, from democracy to Chinese communism; from finance/services to deeptech and Automation driven manufacturing; from humanities to STEM; from one-exam-wonder babus and corrupt/incompetent politicians to techno-martial economists/bureaucrat/politicians with an ambition to conquer South Asia, East Africa and Indian Ocean; from jugaad based civilization to excellence focused civilization, from low-quality big population to high-quality small population, etc.

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