It is if the nation harboring the terrorist refuses to cooperate with an interpol order related to murder and the person is actively killing politicians in your country. What exactly was India supposed to do since Canada refused to work with them? Sit on their hands and watch their elected reps get assassinated?
The accepted response is escalating the situation on the diplomatical level. Imposing sanctions if necessary. Getting other countries impose them as well. And, in extreme cases, trying to get the UN Security Council authorize military action.
Well they killed him and haven’t had any real consequences so I would say killing him was also an accepted response. It was accepted by everyone realistically able to do anything about the situation.
Not facing real immediate consequences is not the same as acceptance. Especially when we are talking about acceptance in the moral/normative sense.
Besides, you should wait at least a decade or two before talking about consequences. Things don't change that quickly in international relations, because the stakes are so big. But they do change, as you can see from the relations between Russia and the West.
I'd disagree, and plenty of Indian commentators disagreed at the time as well [0].
Paying hitmen to kill violent idiots is a bad look. There are multiple other levers that could be pushed.
All of this only really started after Lawrence Bishnoi started his gang war in Punjab/Haryana/Delhi/Rajasthan.
There's a lot of shifting alliances and blood being spilled now that politics in the state of Punjab are in a flux after the AAP won and destroyed the entire political status quo of Congress versus SAD/BJP.
My gut as someone who has lived in Surrey and has heard the stories in Gurdawaras and Mandirs is that this is Dawood-Chota Rajan 2.0
Lawrence Bishnoi did claim responsibility for the 2nd killing. But what makes you so sure that the Indian government is contracting the hit squad? The big problem that Canada has is they have not even identified the killer. Even if Bishnoi makes big claims, how are they going to prove them? And then they will have to estabilish the link between GoI and Bishnoi. All that if at all their 'conspiracy theory' that India has a hand in killings holds any water. Which I honestly doubt.
> It was reported that Pavan Kumar Rai posted a hit on Nijjar on some deepweb website used to hire assassins.
If that is the case, I'd have hoped it would be viral by now. But anyhow, they would have to establish the link between the Pavan Kumar Rai's activities and the killer. The killer who they have not identified.
It's similar to when Biden said Russia's Nord stream gas pipelines will be no more if Russia invades Ukraine. When the sabotage was done, no one could blame the US since there was no evidence linking it to them.
India and the US are not in remotely comparable positions geopolitically. Yemen or Pakistan asserting their right to self defense to the UN to justify declaring war on the US would simply be suicide for them, and just another middle eastern country to topple for the US. So the US just informs the UNSC that they are killing Bin Laden on Pakistani soil, and do so in such a way as to give Pakistan plausible justification for not declaring war, since they have no interest in doing so.
If Canada decided that they were going to declare war based on self-defense, before going to the UN, they'd be going to the US and NATO, the most powerful military organizations on Earth. Canada, even just as the US's hat, enjoys the kind of superpower status that India can only fantasize about.
Generally being amicable in situations like this where you are accused of serious issues is viewed as insulting. I’m not saying they didn’t do it, I’m just saying that even if they didn’t they wouldn’t take kindly to it just being thrown in their face.
The organization giving the experimental drugs with the view that it will pay for itself in relevant research and treatments that come from the testing.
But these wouldn't be trials in a useful sense if patients can self-select. The economics might not pan out unless you get to gatekeeping similar to current trials.
And that assumes it would be all bona-fide substance providers.
It could sure speed up a lot of the preclinical work to get to trials. I’m sure the company would love to not have to extrapolate their success probabilities based on mouse studies leading to extensive expensive trials that might not work out in the end.
Humans are .. complicated. You cannot just compensate a human’s caloric expense (although many companies would love that).
Anywhere a human gets involved shit gets expensive. Interestingly robots are pretty human-intensive, from design to programming and maintenance. Only at scale does the “human factor” go down and things become affordable.
Also, humans are squishy, you need safety requirements to keep them intact (seeing as human repair is incredibly costly and takes ages to complete, often with no guarantee that repair completes and performance levels go back to nominal), humans need sleep and can't work around the clock, and they have a mind of their own, which can make them difficult to deal with.
Indeed. Most of them are also bad planners and lose track of priorities very, very easily. Besides that, there is non-stop internal strife and quarreling as they are deeply social creatures that need to be in constant competition with one and other in order to be happy. You need another class of humans to "manage" these issues.
Once those two layers interact, you get a whole new dimension of problems you get to deal with. The creation of yet another layer of "management" is inevitable. It's basically management all the way up.
But man, once you get a bunch them aligned and motivated the sky is the limit.
I tried organic just for the family. It’s next to impossible to keep plants alive and weeds out. How did people do it before NPK and glyphosate? It’s probably climate dependent and contingent on not having cross continental pests. The first year Japanese beetles pretty much ate my whole crop over the span of 3 weeks.
Yeah, I still think not having every pest and weed from Asia helped as well. Most of the weeds and pests on my property are some combination of Japanese/Chinese/Asian ____.
