IRAN WAR EXPOSES DECLINING US POWER! Is This INDIA'S Moment? | Pratik Nayak & Kinjal Choudhary
The Iran War has raised a much bigger question: is the global balance of power changing?For decades, the United States has played a central role in shaping the international order. But with the Iran War, growing geopolitical rivalries, the rise of new power centres such as the Saudi Arabia-Pakistan-Turkey defence pact, and an increasingly complex security environment, is American dominance beginning to face new challenges?
And if the global order is changing, could this be India's moment?
In this thought-provoking geopolitical podcast, Pratik Nayak and Kinjal Choudhary discuss the changing global power balance and what it could mean for India's strategic future. From the Iran War and American power to nuclear proliferation, Russia-Ukraine, China, Bangladesh and India's neighbourhood security, the conversation examines some of the biggest geopolitical questions shaping the world today.
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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 — Introduction
00:00:32 — How the Iran War broke America's security blanket
00:03:12 — New power centres in West Asia: UAE, Qatar, Kuwait
00:05:18 — MBS's 3-hour India visit, and the I2U2 / IMEC connection
00:06:55 — Inside the Saudi-Pakistan-Turkey pact: money, weapons, soldiers
00:10:42 — Why "Islamic NATO" cannot function like NATO
00:11:41 — Turkey vs Saudi Arabia, and the Cyprus-Greece-Armenia leverage
00:13:38 — The 2018 "triangle of evil" versus today's alliance
00:14:12 — Should India move from non-alignment to a formal alliance?
00:15:39 — Strait of Hormuz: the chokepoint that decides India's energy security
00:19:36 — Malacca — India's counter-chokepoint
00:20:13 — Tariffs: the new weapon below the threshold of war
00:20:55 — India-US relations: are we sliding back to the pre-90s?
00:23:39 — Foreign-funded NGOs and the FCRA amendment
00:27:58 — How drone swarms exposed the world's best air defence systems
00:28:52 — Russia-Ukraine and US-Iran: the defence lessons for India
00:34:37 — Knowing when to stop a war — the maturity of Operation Sindoor
00:36:20 — Bangladesh after Hasina: China, Pakistan and the Siliguri Corridor
00:40:26 — Jamaat-e-Islami, radicalisation and the roots of the Awami League
00:42:34 — Algorithms: the new route for foreign interference
00:43:17 — Big Tech, data sovereignty and the case for regulation
00:45:54 — Information warfare during Operation Sindoor
00:47:39 — The China car-system trend and the shadow ban
00:49:26 — Will nuclear proliferation increase?
00:53:14 — Will the world map be redrawn? Kurds, Balochistan, Ceuta, Crimea
00:57:42 — Viksit Bharat 2047: what does "developed" actually mean?
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