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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by swatkat on Saturday December 17, 2016 @03:10PM (#13202248)
>>> It's strategically foolish for the major economies like the EU, Russia & China to depend on the US's goodwill in maintaining a system that drives a huge part of their economy, GPS is used pervasively for everything, and that's only increasing.

Exactly. For this same reason, India recently deployed its own satellite navigation system NAVIC[1][2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Regional_Navigation_Sat...

[2] http://www.isro.gov.in/irnss-programme

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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by satbyy on Saturday December 17, 2016 @05:49PM (#13203184)
Indeed. In the India-Pakistan Kargil war of 1999, USA sided with Pak and turned off GPS for Indian troops. That led to the creation of NAVIC

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/How-Kargil-s...

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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by saiya-jin on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:52AM (#13205468)
seriously, WTF is wrong with US and their attitude towards India/Pakistan. India is democracy, never attacked anybody out of blue from 1947 when it was created (unlike its neighbors Pakistan and China who attacked it numerous times).

Yet US sides with dictatorship which doesn't even control its own secret service which creates its own terrorist organizations (laskar-e-taeba).

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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by rwallace on Sunday December 18, 2016 @09:20AM (#13205862)
It's a political philosophy sometimes called 'realpolitik' that basically says never mind morality, just do what is in the interests of your own country. It has a certain emotional appeal, but when you take a cold and practical look at the history of decisions made on that basis, they tend to end up doing more harm than good to the interests of the country that made them, quite apart from everyone else.
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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by angry_octet on Monday December 19, 2016 @06:27AM (#13210767)
India was part of the 'non-aligned' block and at various times has been keen on building ties with the Russians, buying lots of arms from them. In contrast, Pakistani leaders have been firmly in the US camp. Hence, in '71 it was a no-brainer for Nixon which side the US would support. It is bizarre the Nixon continued supporting Pakistan during the Bangladesh Genocide, but that's Nixon for you.

Also, India did invade and annex Goa in '62.

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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by swatkat on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:40PM (#13240624)
>> Also, India did invade and annex Goa in '62.

... because Goa is an historically Indian territory, and Republic of India just got it back from foreign invaders!?

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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by cm2187 on Sunday December 18, 2016 @12:15PM (#13206548)
Not just dictatorships. Islamist dictatorships (Pakistan, Saudi Arabia). A lot of western (not just US) diplomacy is horribly short sighted.
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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by JumpCrisscross on Monday December 19, 2016 @04:00AM (#13210332)
> never attacked anybody out of blue from 1947 when it was created

India "attacked" East Pakistan in the Bangladesh Liberation War [1]. Whether or not you or I feel it was justified is besides the point: it violated the sovereignty of another nation (similar to the U.S. in Iraq and Russia in Crimea).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bangladesh_Libera...

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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by tim333 on Monday December 19, 2016 @06:21AM (#13210742)
Your linked article reads

"India joined the war on 3 December 1971, after Pakistan launched preemptive air strikes on North India."

which doesn't sound out of the blue to me.

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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by tim333 on Monday December 19, 2016 @06:18AM (#13210739)
I think they're worried the Pakistani islamists will give nukes to the international jihadi islamists if we aren't somewhat supportive.
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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by rahrahrah on Sunday December 18, 2016 @09:30AM (#13205893)
You must be new here. It's not about democracy, it's what's more convenient for the US interests. Welcome to HN.
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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by alexqgb on Saturday December 17, 2016 @05:04PM (#13202934)
Russia's GLONASS too, antennas for which have been built into iPhones since the 4S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS
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Re:Galileo navigation satellite system goes live by nradov on Sunday December 18, 2016 @03:20AM (#13204890)
Most smartphones designed in the past few years support GLONASS. Russian law requires GLONASS support to be sold there, so manufacturers have generally added it across their model lines since that's easier than producing different SKUs for sale in Russia.
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