Why does Trump use Twitter?

The most unexpected choice,  American President Donald Trump is an enigma. No one can quite figure him out. People either love him or hate him, but they have never been able to ignore him. 

With Trump what you see is what you get. 
An electorate tired of non performing politicians who double talk, are hypocritical, wimpy, divisive and too politically correct, has not surprisingly swung to the other extreme. 
Crude as his style may appear, the majority of American voters like that blunt honesty in Trump. Thy seem to relate to him.

Trump had been planning to serve as President of America since he was a young man and has been preparing himself accordingly, learning as much as possible. He has a vision to make America great again. His strategy appears unconventionally insane and his tactics even more. 
If one carefully analyses his approach there is actually a manner in the madness.  
Willingly or unwillingly, in Trump, the American people have put their trust

Unlike most political leaders who make politics their profession, Trump has earned his billionaire status by hard work and cunning. Having financed his own campaign he is not beholden to any lobby and power group. 
Though some may disagree, Trump is a business success. He is confident to a point of Megalomania and naturally is his own boss. To deploy his vision he is dependent on the administration but never lets any individual or group obstruct him.

This makes Trump unconventional, undiplomatic and unpredictable. Trump frightens everyone. So politicians, advisors, Wall street, staff, media, civil society, Congressmen etc. all want to tame him and his energy. Never before has an American President ever had such support and simultaneously so many interest groups opposing him, but Trump remains unfazed.

Trump is a President in a hurry to get things promised and refuses to have his message and his initiatives derailed. He therefore has little patience with anyone who gets in the way. Its always his way or the highway, with frequent staff changes and startling initiatives. 

Trump has been effective in shaking things up. He has overseen an economic rebound and secured for America beneficial trade deals with Mexico, Canada, European Union, Japan, and Korea. His initiatives on wide range of areas covering illegal immigration, terrorism etc. earn him brickbats and praise. 

Regarding Trump one question that inevitably comes to mind is, 'Why does Trump use Twitter as his main channel of communication?', even for the most sensitive of matters and relationships.

No leader runs the country, the bureaucrats do. The leadership formulates strategy, prioritises issues, gives direction and focuses resources as needed, while providing statesmanship, to government and to the electorate.

A visitor to the court of Russian Tzar Nicholas I, (1796 - 1855) was praising the Tzar and his power.
Upon which the Tzar retorted, "I do not rule Russia; 10,000 clerks do."

American federal government has tens of millions of employees spread over tens of thousands of agencies and departments.
Government has become ungovernable. Accountability is poor, policy formulation and deployment takes forever. 

Trump knows that to succeed, he has to win public support on many issues and for that good communication is critical.

Trump has inherited from two big communication problems. 
1. A bureaucracy that marches to the drum beats, of its own choosing. They change the tone, strength, bluntness and even kill policy they do not like.
2. A very powerful media extremely hostile to Trump. They suppress his achievements, exaggerate his weaknesses and mistakes. They constantly smear him, trying to drive him and his supporters away. 

Both these communication channels have tried to choke Trump's ability to communicate with the outside world at his desired pace and to get things done. 

In all democracies only that narrative is carried and only that happens, which the media and the top bureaucrats, working hand in glove with the elites, want. 

Trump has changed all that. He is unwilling to trust the newspapers and television media to give him fair coverage.

It appears. Trump has a vocabulary of about 3000 words, but its enough to communicate directly to the world.  He uses Twitter like the 'Donald Trump Broadcasting Station'. He communicates with the world directly. Sure he makes many faux pas but he never lets a setback deter him.

Whether this is this the right approach is debatable? That its an effective communication approach is beyond doubt.

This communication strategy is not suitable for everyone and in every situation. If one is not one's own boss and if one lacks a clear vision and approach then one should not adopt this direct contact approach.

Why Pakistan will fail

Not every country is a civilisation.  A country is just an inhabited  parcel of land. 
A civilisation like India is a stable, progressive open ended society. It not only accommodates but celebrates diverse people, cultures, religions, languages etc. continuously blending them inside a melting pot to create a better and richer homogenous society.  

Amongst its greatest sins, Britain for its own political purposes brutally tore asunder the Indian civilisation by partitioning India in 1947, into India and Pakistan.  To make Pakistan viable they turned a blind eye and tacitly encouraged Pakistan's annexation of Balochistan, and the capture of large part of Pashtun, and Kashmir area with help of British officers. 

When countries like former Yugoslavia, Iraq and Pakistan are created by any artificial means be they military and or political means, yoking all sorts of people, and cultures together by force, we get dysfunctional societies. Akin to a messy bitter salad, they can be held together only by force and fear and in the case of Pakistan a after-life in paradise.

Pakistan is an artificiality, created by political skullduggery and extreme violence, justified on the  basis of 'the incompatibility of minority populated Islam within a Hindu majority populated secular, independent India. 

Pakistan's leaders may have won the land and its resources but not the peace. 

Possessed by unreason and the fervour of religious hatred, Pakistan rejected its Indian civilisational heritage in search of a new identity, and till date has not found one. 

Rebuffed by the Arabs and then the Iranians for trying to be part of them and their societies, Pakistan is just a hotchpotch salad of people supposedly bound together by the myth of Muslim 'Ummah'.

Throw into this salad we call Pakistan, Urdu as the official language (spoken by only 10% of the people). 


Most Pakistanis struggle with, how to relate with their fellow Pakistanis and their country, except hatred for India and America.

Add to this salad a gigantic dose of intolerant Islam, which is not only intolerant of non Muslims but intolerant of and possessed by hatred for all of the other 72 sects of Islam. Its also intolerant of all modernity. So the murder of non Sunni muslims is encouraged by the state and the clerics.

Now create an untenable marriage between, a free market secular democracy with 'Sharia'. Then hand over the country to be managed and ruled by heads of 200 wealthy feudal landowners, a group of elites, the Mullahs and the Army.


Pakistan has always been a military dictatorship, sometimes masquerading as a democracy.  The army dominates all aspects of socio-political-economic life in Pakistan. 
This Pakistan is actually  mercenary state willing to do whatever anyone is willing to pay for. War, terrorism, drugs, genocide, nuclear proliferation etc. 
During the Black September conflict (Feb 1970) between Jordan and the Palestinians,  Pakistani troops led by Brig. Zia Ul Haq actively supported the killing of 25,000 Palestinians in 11 days 
(more than killed by Israel had in previous 20 years).

Pakistan has been propped up by huge inflows from America, the West, and later the Arabs, and the Chinese, basically to create problems and troubles for others. 

With a supply of almost unlimited funds and sophisticated weapons, Pakistan has been until recently encouraged tacitly and often openly by the global community  to raise, arm, support, finance and legitimise numerous armies of terrorists.

Funded by Saudi Arabia and UAE, knowingly ignored by America, the Chinese provided  the Pakistanis technology to make 125 nuclear weapons. 

Within Pakistan all institutions of the state except the army, which are essential to ensure good governance, law, order and justice have been transformed into mere facades. All news is heavily censored. while terrorising its own citizenry is the order of the day. 

All this power to disenfranchise the vast majority of Pakistani people, Pashtuns, Kashmiris, Baloch, Sindhi and Muhajir (refugee) people. Then seize the properties and wealth, rob, loot, kill, rape and massacre, these very people who are Pakistani citizens.

Pakistani government is so inefficient and ineffective, and corruption so rampant that there is next to nil tax collection and civic services, healthcare and education infrastructure are dismal. 
The army runs a massive empire processing and exporting illicit opium based drugs valued at a staggering US$ 9 Billion per year. Its Fauji Foundation generates its own revenue stream of nearly 2 Billion US$ per year.

To ensure all power remains in the Army's hands enemies have to be created and threats have to be conjured up, while fantasies of empire have to be sold to a dumbed own population.
Hence Pakistan which has made terrorism and war as the national industry, has major disagreements and ongoing conflicts with every one of its neighbours and within its own provinces. 

It has become the worlds leading proliferator of nuclear weapons and the global capital for breeding and providing sanctuary to terrorists, who continuously fan out across the world.

Education is meant to illuminate. In Pakistan religious seminaries and formal schooling  indoctrinate and dumb down the population. The young are taught fictional versions of history, science art literature, etc. misinterpreting the Koran,  instilling in them a false sense of supremacy and glory, both past and future. 

Except those who have had the privilege of quality private education, three generations of Pakistanis have developed rabid hatred for everyone, even themselves, As a result they are capable of creating nothing and are instinctively destructive in nature. 

Due to their problematic nature, and low quality education, Pakistanis are out of sync with the modern world. Naturally they are shunned by global institutions of higher learning and international employers. 
The credibility of their certification is suspect as is evident that Pakistani universities issue degrees to graduates which are mostly unacceptable to any other country.

The bulk of expat Pakistani workers perform manual unskilled jobs and these too are being whittled down by employers in the Arab Gulf and elsewhere. The loss of valuable  foreign currency remittances that help support the Pakistani economy adds to strife at home.

At every international forum Pakistan had been obtaining until now legitimacy and support from powerful nations like America, China, and the European Union, trading immoral, destructive and criminal behaviour for the sake of political and military expediency.


Its been a while since the world particularly America have grown exhausted by Pakistani double dealing. They now openly and vociferously view Pakistan not as a partner but as a dangerous infection that needs to be exorcised. The global demand for fixing Pakistan as a state promoter of terrorism has become very shrill and urgent.

Now with the latest FATF recommendation to place Pakistan on the 'blacklist', Pakistan is scheduled to be sanctioned and will thus be economically and financially cut off from the rest of the world. Foreign remittances from expatriate Pakistani workers will not be possible to be sent,  nor can the International Monetary Fund nor the World Bank lend money to Pakistan. 

Pakistan is in reality a hollow, unstable State. In spite of all these problems, Pakistan has only been able to survive till now  by the iron hand and hard shell of a well funded Army. 
Now as the government slides rapidly into bankruptcy, with little or no recourse the funds to the  
political-military class will be severely limited. Still the Army will gobble up 50% of the decreased budget leaving the nation and the people in the lurch.

Pakistani people are protesting the hyper inflation that has begun to grip Pakistan. As frustration and anger erupt, numerous other skeletons are  tumbling out of the cupboard. 
The people are up in arms demanding an end to forced abductions, killings, loot and molestation by the Army and authorities. Pakistan is a giant tinderbox just beginning to catch fire and ready to explode very soon.

As a result of these and numerous other factors, Pakistan is a nation in rapid and terminal decline. What will be the likely fate of such a country? 

There appears to be only one possible outcome. 
Within a decade, the unsustainable entity, 'The Islamic Republic of Pakistan' will disintegrate

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Hindu Vs Muslim - Who is better by Lee Kuan Yew - Former Prime minister of Singapore.
American Empire of the 21st Century by Gurvinder Singh
Only 18% of Pakistani women have received a 10 year school education.

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Pakistan seeks help from the Arab World

How Pakistan wants to save Kashmiris and Indian Muslims

Cartoon by Pakistani Cartoonist Sabir Nawaz

The Will to Succeed

One of the essential qualities of people who succeed spectacularly is their frame of mind. 

Failure is not an option for them. They simply refuse to give up. They possess passion and commitment which is both immense and intense.

Take the example of Native American Indian Bright Path -Jim Thorpe, often considered as one of the most versatile American athlete ever. 

Jim Thorpe succeeded as the first Native American to win gold medals for his country when he participated in the 1912 Summer Olympics. 

Winning itself was an achievement, but how he won is the story of legends.

On the morning of his competitions, Thorpe discovered that his shoes had been stolen.  

Not a person to give up, he discovered a pair of shoes and some socks in a garbage dumpster. Not only were the shoes different in colour and model they were also also of different sizes.

Jim Thorpe a.ka. Bright Path. Different shoes, sizes and socks

One shoe fit him properly, but the other was a size too big, so he had to wear an extra sock on one foot.   

This is clearly visible in the photo taken that day after the events. One can see the strange footwear he wore that day, to win gold medals for the  pentathlon and decathlon events.

A powerful and motivating personality. Jim Thorpe did not let a setback overpower him and become a misfortune. He searched relentlessly for anything that would take him swiftly out of his predicament. Eventually he found something.  He used and worked with what he had, where he had, to bounce back and win, coming way ahead of others.  

As my son Pavit of Hotfut who owns and operates a sports academy, reminds me, winners possess a 'must win'  psychology.  Meaning the key to winning and succeeding is not money, equipment, facilities, technology, tools, etc. as much as it is the strength and motivation of the human spirit possessed by a passion to succeed and excel.

Its always the quality of people who determine the quality of results. 

The good news is that these winning qualities traits across all disciplines, can be identified, developed and enhanced both for ourselves and for others we are responsible for.

With the right focus, guidance and motivation, even ordinary individuals and teams can achieve extraordinary results.

To honour this extraordinary and great man, the American people have named a town after him Jim Thorpe in Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania.

First known image of Michael Phelps.- (Humour)

Biography of Michael Phelps

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