And you thought Money is not everything..

This is clearly Putin's senility and care two hoots attitude towards citizens of Ukraine.

@arunima25 The Hindu in me thinks knowing right and not standing up for it is wrong. Citizens are powerless. Once we vote we cannot even tell them problems in our street. Killing citizens is ..words fail me. Zelenskyy asked for our help. That makes him "sharanarthi" as per our culture, right? That is how the Hindu in me came up. In the past, we were there for Jews and Parsis. Why have we failed now?

@vandana7 All the wars have been destructive. And then they fade away. Countries go back to normalcy but victims don't. Their lives change forever. . Everyone knows wars is bad but still they keep happening. Afghanistan is suffering. The US left it in a worse place than before when it invaded it. What did UN do? Except for hollow talkss It's wrong to blame Modi or bring his 56 inch comparison here. He didn't initiate the war or provoked it.

@vandana7 You have a perspective here. But then the permanent members of the organization are the real bullies and the ones involved in all the wars. Russia vetoed... that's the mockery of such organisations. Is the organisation fair? The mighty are in power there too. Where does the representative of third world..the real issue facing countries have a chance there? These organisations are fake and toe their line with them. We have seen it all the time. We will not face the same. China might do the same to Taiwan but not to India. And when it does to Taiwan, India will take a different step. China would not get into a full war with us...the bordee disputes might continue and West that's criticizing us today would be a mute spectator the way they have been so long. India has to fight it and it's doing it. I am glad that our leaders right from Indira have not signed the nuclear ban treaty. That would still have some fear in our neighbours. Ukraine was the third biggest nuclear power but it signed it. If India needs a powerful position, it has to get a permanent membership in UN. And who supports it? Not Ukraine or US or China? I mean it's a myopic view to say that India did wrong... And why the Hindu in you gets hurt?? For me, it was the human in me who was hurt. I wonder why that angle is brought unnecessary in your post. That's a unnecessary propaganda that should be left to baseless fanatics and should not be incorporated in any talk unrelated to it.

@vandana7 War is big business.

@BarBaraPrz Hope Putin gets as bad name in history as Hitler.

How does it generate cash? Blink.. snowing again...blink...

We have a lot of business with China as well. China is not attacking us because of that. Liquid buyer. Unlike Pakistan. Once it gobbles Pakistan and Sri Lanka, we would have to think what are our chances of survival.

@vandana7 China is thinking right why would China destroy its market. They don't have problems with India. Pakistan has problems with us.

@vandana7 It can gobble Sri Lanka and Pakistan because they have fallen for their loans as bet. They can't gobble us. We do business with them as equal partners and not beg to them or let them come and work in our territory. And India is now very much capable of aggressive reply back unlike the last Indo China war.

It certainly looks bad. These people have been planning this since long. It cannot be overnight or even two or three years plan.

I don't know how many soldiers were lost at Afghanistan war. The number of deaths in World Trade Center plus the number of deaths in the war, plus all the monetary losses, plus the cost of the time spent on planning the war including resources. You bet, it is too much. Especially since the results are not as desired.

@vandana7 Yeah. Despite the necessity of the Afghan war, its outcome was certainly not the one we wanted.

@porwest Sanctions then would have been great.

Establishing assets...I meant schools, hospitals, railway systems, etc. Not statues. Equipment of war are necessary whether you agree or not. For self defense. Today Ukraine's situation is what I do not want any country to be in. Periodically, dictators will come, over ambitious people will come, jealous people will come, stupid people will become leaders. We cannot wish them away. They come accidentally. They don't negotiate...and while everything is not transparent, till it is not, we have to take things at face value. We need to have enough to protect ourselves. My view, you need not conform to it of course.

Every country has its rough spots I suppose. Initial two or three elections could be forgiven because people were not sufficiently educated, newspapers were expensive, and we were overwhelmed with gratitude towards our leaders who got us freedom. But subsequent lethargy to understand what is going on and failures or lack of capability is beyond comprehension. Even if we were working hard to build our future. The present generation is even worse thanks to social media which can easily influence people and divide based on available data. No right measures but nobody wants to stand up asking for them.