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Due to the fact that we have a lot of cultural similarities and camaraderie amongst our people who live in other countries so do you ever think that the political relations might become better like ever!!!!

Hello there,

I am very new to this. I saw footage of gaza being bombed, genocide is truly terrifying. I am genuinely curious about the relation and history of Palestine and Israel over the years. Why Israel is bombing gaza. Why India's PM is also in favour of Israel

Please enlighten me with facts and information.

Also, free palestine

Im currently 20m and a student of geopolitics. I have always wanted to do something like this. However, will you'll be interested? It'll help me improve my writing and news delivery skills to the lay man. There's no point if there aren't many people interested to give me feedback on this. Don't worry, the reads won't be boring, I have experience writing for magazines before.

(Must Read Headlines provided at the end of the articles. No AI has been used in the articles.)

Daily update time. Straight to the point.Here is today's summary of global conflicts, diplomacy, and macro trends. Happy Reading!

1. Global Conflict

Today, the United States and Iran have agreed to stop striking each other and have decided to meet tomorrow (June 30) in Qatar. This is a major development after the continuous strikes in the past 2 days, despite the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) signed on June 17. The MoU was aimed to resolve the conflict, which began in late Feb this year.

Source:- The FPJ newspaper

2. India & the World

PM Narendra Modi, attends the 50th Anniversary celebrations of Independence of Seychelles (June 28, 2026). PM Modi said the Global South, especially island nations, were the most impacted by climate change and called for positive climate action. He emphasized that India envisions an Indian Ocean where security and economic prosperity are ensured & emphasized on mutual trust in a partnership.

Source:- Ministry of External Affairs.

3. Macro Trends

Global economic fragmentation could slash USD 6.9 trillion from world GDP. "An increasingly likely escalation could raise the economic cost up to USD 6.9 trillion"- WEF.

This will severely harm and negatively impact emerging

markets and developing economies such as India. This will be due to the lack of access to capital. Rising Nationalism, Geopolitical tensions and declining institutional legitamcy have weakened the effectiveness of multilateral institutions such as the IMF, WTO & World Bank.

Source:- World Economic Forum

4. Interesting Story of the Day

Currently there is an extraordinary heatwave in Europe. It has already shattered numerous temperature records. Accompanied by local violent storms and in some places droughts and the risk of wild fires, it is worsening. This has led to an impact on human health, ecosystems, agriculture, infrastructure and labour productivity. The heatwave which moved up from the Iberian Peninsula is expected to spread over large parts of Western, Central, and Southern Europe and the Balkans soon. Germany has recorded never seen before temperature in Europe, 41.7° celsius.

Source:- The World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

5. Must Read Headlines

North Korea tested an upgraded 240mm multiple rocket launcher and projectiles. This has triggering immediate US & South Korea joint tracking.

Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina vowed to return to Dhaka this year, risking immediate arrest after her death sentence following the 2024 uprising.

India announced it will subsidize 90% of compliance costs for domestic MSMEs facing the European Union’s strict new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).

Thank you for Reading! Any criticism and opinion is well appreciated.

I've read Prisoners of Geography, Sapiens, Animal Farm, The Art of War, Pratap, India's Most Fearless, Balidan, and a few biographies.

I'm looking to build a solid understanding of geopolitics, military strategy, international relations, intelligence, and statecraft, preferably through India's strategic lens (while also understanding other major powers).

Could you recommend a numbered reading roadmap (say 10–20 books) where each book builds on the previous one (if possible), rather than just standalone recommendations?

Open to history, strategy, political philosophy, IR, Internal Security, military history, and contemporary geopolitics.

It'll be brief -

1. The Iranian protests, and the apparent readiness some of protesting Iranians had when it came to abandoning Shia Islam and reclaim pre-Islamic Persian culture, played a role in this mindset - this is the part of the new Pakistani mindset that seems organic. They genuinely lack historical culture because they're a breakaway identitarian state.
2. Both X (Twitter) and VPNs are banned in Pakistan. This is

quite important: for quite some time,

1. they have been banned. So there is a non-zero chance that *any* traffic originating from Pakistan is either from Pakistanis evading the ban (in which case they won't be statist or state loyal, as logic supplies here), or government propaganda bots. *This is the non-organic leg of my hypothesis*. There's just a very low chance that non Pakistani military affiliated Pakistans will parrot Pakistani propaganda.
2. The abeyance of the IVC, no matter which side of the spectrum you lie on, has triggered this as unofficial policy. If they can claim that Pakistan is the home to the Indus, then they can claim that India is ruthlessly blocking a Pakistani river. They are trying this, but right now India is an upper-riparian state. The long-term play, of course, as always, is to make Kashmir relevant in the UN again
3. A non-trivial part of these bots, whether they're government propaganda bots "allowed" to use Twitter for these purposes or whether they're real users, are simply trolls. They're getting a lot of cross-pollinating support from other bot accounts.

What India should do:
- IMPORTANT: Sideline the sanghi morons who keep claiming India is Bharat, unless India wants some shit like the Prepsa agreement with Pakistan. The simplest solution, even by Indian users who do believe in this )ridiculous north Indian sanghi-led) falsehood, would be to use India when writing in English, and Bharat while writing in devnagri. Saying "Bharat is going to be like this" is willfully giving up the name of the country and creating an unforced error where it doesn't exist. It won't amount to anything if it were just Pakistani attempts alone, since Indian insulation and inertia can outlast the miniscule Pakistani budget, but we do not want a naming dispute being taken to the UN.

2. The Indian governments PR and propaganda machinery - outside India - needs to be made more robust. It is tiring to see insufferable amounts of propaganda by the ruling party on local media, including on social media, but nothing is being done to counter nonsense where it merits countering. Instead, these idiot trolls are wasting time on disputing how terrible the caste system is or whatever other nonsense they do. Attention is really misfocused and hypocritical and its irritating that these are the best strategies India has.

3. There's very obviously a disconnect in the sanghi perception of how they should try to reshape indians understanding of what India is within India (a very north Indian Hindi-Hindu dominated effort), and what they want to parrot outside India. Until this is reconciled by the sanghi abandoning it's ridiculous effort, this problem will manifest into an identity crisis, whether or not people admit it.