EvilBuddha comments

Mexico, India, Brazil, China and Canada make up the bulk of foreign tourists

Most of the countries you listed are not only not visiting America, but have major boycotts against American goods as well.

Yet another guy who claims to speak for everyone else.

China and Canada might have their reasons to boycott American goods, and with Canada their tantrums will blow over pretty soon.

But even these 2 don't make up the majority out of the 5 nations that the OP listed.

I just had a Jim Beam Kentucky Straight on Friday night with a couple of other office colleagues to express solidarity with American whisky makers who might be facing calls of boycott in Europe. I generally don't drink whisky and prefer vodka whenever I go out with office mates (even though they make fun of me because vodka is considered a ladies drink over here), but now I have made a conscious decision to switch to Bourbon and support Kentucky and Tennessee.

Before anyone laughs this off, they should be well advised to note that my country is the largest whisky market in the world. If things do become serious, more of us will switch from Scotch to Bourbon to express our support for the greatest American President of the 21st century.

Literature and TV - Poirot. Still recollect the opening tune of Agatha Christie's Poirot starring David Suchet.

Also Sherrif Walt Longmire from Longmire.

Film - Jake Gittes from Chinatown. And Detective William Somerset from Seven.

While not actual detectives, I did really love The Famous Five's accidental sleuthing and penchant for falling into trouble. I devoured these books as a child.

The Famous Five was more famous but it was the Five Find-Outers series which had better mysteries, IMHO. Got me hooked on to Enid Blyton as a kid.

Well played Pakistan.

T20 is literally becoming a circus with such scores. Are bowlers even needed? They can just pack the side with 11 batsmen with a few who can bowl a bit.

India has already sold it's supersonic cruise missiles to Philippines.

Whatever TINC thinks is irrelevant, because India and China have been enemies for longer than he has been a keyboard warrior.

Pakistan team has travelled halfway around the world only to get thrashed badly by an in-form New Zealand side.

Babar Azam and Rizwan have been dropped and this is the outcome.

More broadly, by December, Chinese F&B brands had opened over 6,100 outlets in Southeast Asia, Singapore-headquartered research firm Momentum Works reported. India and Vietnam account for roughly two-thirds.

India is not in Southeast Asia.

And most probably the folks visiting these stores would not be aware they are Chinese owned. India should give these brands the TikTok treatment.

So currently they aren't drinking Jack Daniels and Jim Beam?

3 out of the top 10 whisky brands in India are from Pernord Ricard stable.

https://www.forbesindia.com/article/explainers/top-10-whisky-brands-india/94217/1

Jack Daniels has a very small market share in India because the British spoiled the taste of Indians by introducing them to Scotch whisky. India is now reducing tariffs on Bourbon to please Trump.

https://hospitality.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/speaking-heads/will-the-cut-in-bourbon-tariffs-increase-its-popularity/118571857

Though I do admit I have a soft corner for Blenders Pride because of some fond memories since my college friends all were whisky drinkers.

All Europeans should boycott all American products. Then Trump fails. I have boycotted all American products since the start of March and will continue for at least the next four years. If enough people do the same the Amercian economy will tank.

Yes because the US can not survive with Europe. Or is it the other way round?

India is reducing tariffs on whisky from 150 percent to 100 percent in order to placate Trump.

India is the largest whisky market in the world and it consumes more than half of the world’s whisky supply. India consumes more whisky than US, France and Japan combined.

So if the EU wants to keep on rubbing Trump off the wrong way, it's most welcome. India will step in and replace it's substantial consumption of Pernord Ricard's Royal Stag and Imperial Blue brands with Jack Daniels and Jim Beam.

If the US annexes Canada it will become G6. To keep it G7 the rest of the members will have to readmit Russia.

The Baloch Liberation Army are ethnic separatists, fighting for their own nation free from Punjabi dominated Pakistan. They are not Islamists by ideology.

It's quite spectacular and courageous taking an entire train hostage.

Since Pakistan supports terrorist groups in order to create trouble for India in Kashmir, India should offer its full support to the courageous Baloch freedom fighters. Two can play this game.

It was the four spinners who put the chokehold on the run rate for India when New Zealand were batting.

Good for Rohit Sharma who, unlike Kohli, has at least won a few ICC tournaments as captain.

Both of them will extend their run in Tests based on their ODI form and the selectors don't have the guts to suggest to them to step aside.

Air India will end its Narita-Delhi route operations on March 30

As per Air India's official notification- The move is set to provide faster and more affordable access to central Tokyo, cutting travel time to downtown from nearly an hour to just 30 minutes.

Which is funny because it takes hours to reach IGIA in Delhi due to traffic even if one is coming from Gurgaon which is much closer to the airport.

The photo is of Connaught Place in Delhi, whereas the US embassy in Delhi is in Chanakyapuri.

The Black Caps have spoiled the party for India on many occasions in ICC tournaments. 1999 World Cup, 2000 Champions Trophy, 2019 World Cup.

Underestimate them at your peril.

Proteas choke again.

New Zealand have lost to India in the group stage but in knockouts they have given a lot of bad memories to India in the last couple of decades.

Not to forget that they won the Champions Trophy in 2000 by beating India.

The used car business is doing well in Delhi’s neighbouring states of Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Cars more than 15 years old discarded by Delhiites can be found plying in rural and semi-urban areas in these states.

Inspite of their top bowlers missing, Australia did fight hard and even their second string attack with bowlers like Nathan Ellis delivered tight spells.

India would probably prefer facing the Proteas in the final, so today's semi final will be very interesting.

Ganesha is the Hindu god with an elephant head, therefore elephants are worshipped in Hinduism.

The captive elephants in the temples of Kerala are treated well, however some do become agitated and run amok on seeing the huge crowds. This can be considered as Lord Ganesha's wrath and a sign that the elephant knows that you have done bad karma and is punishing you.

It's the wild elephants who are at risk, of being run over by trains and of being poached for their ivory tusks. Thankfully Hindus are mostly vegetarian and don't kill animals for traditional medicine unlike another particular culture, therefore the human-animal conflict is easier to manage.

Ukraine forces were on the verge of attacking Crimea directly but the Russians blew a dam on the Dnipro River if you remember and that stopped the Ukrainian attack. They already had forces on the opposite bank to secure river crossings and a large armored force waiting to cross but the resulting flood made it impossible to conduct the assault.

The best military minds came up short then.

Since you were so confident that Ukraine will retake Crimea, your other confident statements regarding the Russia-Ukraine war should be taken with a pinch of salt.

These include your repeated assertions that Russia will attack NATO countries if there is a peace deal.

A true statesman would offer Ukraine the US best military minds and evaluate what their military needs to win

This is the same guy who was claiming that Ukraine will take back Crimea from Russia in 2022.

Since the best military minds proved wrong on that occasion, maybe they should take a step back from their warmongering and stay quiet once peace loving Trump administration officials are in charge.

This opinion piece is just that, an opinion.

US allies have long been freeriding on US for military support while maintaining substantial trade relations with it's principal rival, China.

They want the best of both worlds - to keep on making money from China while expecting US to come to their rescue if attacked.

It's a sad and shameful day when the worlds enemy is praising Ukraine's supposed ally.

LOL you really believe that Russia is the world’s enemy.

Europe is not the entire world.

Many people questioned his inclusion in the team but Varun Chakravarthy proved them wrong.

India would have preferred playing Australia in the semis since they are without their top bowlers. However, Australia are still a handful and should not be underestimated.

Hard to believe that England won the ODI World Cup just 5 years ago, but they have not been competitive in ODIs for quite some time.

Water crisis is not the most critical problem that Kashmir faces.

At one point of time it looked as if England were in control of the chase, but kudos to Afghanistan for keeping their nerve and coming out on top.

So much for the calls of boycott, next time such statements are made by politicians the obvious answer would be that their team is scared of losing to Afghanistan.

Welcome to the new world order.

Trump, the best US President in last 4 decades, has the US liberals and the European freeriders tearing their hair out with this turn of events.

Hope the US liberals follow through on their promises and actually leave this time.

But where will they go? As per their own propaganda, Canada will be invaded by the US and Europe will be invaded by Russia.