Re:India's workhorse rocket fails for the first time in decades
by cat199 on Friday September 01, 2017 @08:50AM
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> it is nothing like the Europe that, in many ways, fucked it up with Empire.
one could argue that the entire basis for 'european culture' is empire; for better or worse - and as a simple observation.
The cultural progress in India is very complex, it is nothing like the newly built USA - its histories and personal cultures are old and deeply entrenched - and it is nothing like the Europe that, in many ways, fucked it up with Empire. But we are seeing progress.
It is interesting to find that India is largely western sympathetic, and it is highly beneficial to westerners that it is. We put the geo-politics in western favour by ensuring they have nuclear weapons and advanced science programs, and we try and strengthen the nation and resolve the societal issues with aid money.
I'm not saying India doesn't have massive corruption, and I'm not saying the aid and incentives are definitely applied in the right way, but I am saying that calling out aid as incompatible with nukes and spaceflight highlights an ignorance of what goes on in India and the surrounding nations - and its impact on the west.