Sep 5, 2026 · 1 hr · 16 segments
In this edition of The World According to Irina Tsukerman, the bi-weekly geopolitical series on The KAJ Masterclass LIVE, host Khudania Ajay (KAJ) examines a rapidly shifting global landscape with…
Irina TsukermanGuest
Khudania AjayHost
thank you so now moving on on to the big topics that we will be covering we'll talk about the iran u.s war that is escalating makeup act venezuela oil deal and ukraine and much more but before that irena let's touch a bit on nepal nepal disaster how does it what is your view from that part of the world how does it look like And especially, will it impact anyway the regional setup here because the Prime Minister there, he had a different voice altogether, some sort of damages and all those things from neighboring countries and all of that.
It's been a combination of human failures, extreme traumatic conditions, and also infrastructural weaknesses.
It was a combination of terrible flooding and debris falling down, entering the flooding zone and actually causing even more damage as the water with the debris and mud and rocks and everything was slid downwards and and created even greater momentum to spread laterally and to destroy infrastructure along the way and sweep that infrastructure along with it.
And essentially, because of the geography, because of the intersection of several rivers, it created a situation where multiple areas were affected almost simultaneously.
Impossible to really evacuate and give notice to this critical emergency situation.
And it created an isolation of certain areas and isolation of entire groups of people who were not within the normal zone of evacuation.
These were areas that would not be would not be affected by rock slides or mud slides or flooding.
So the people who were trapped there or who were affected and impacted and killed or injured, Many of them were not from areas that would normally be prepared for such conditions because this was a once-in-a-lifetime event combining several unusual circumstances.
On top of that natural element, there was also the human element of not having a rapid response team or management system, because while the disaster was ongoing, the local authorities were trying to figure out what was happening and they were simply not passing on information quickly enough to make a difference.
And frankly, even if they did in some places, it still wouldn't have been fast enough.
Another issue was that a lot of the local authorities and the Nepalese government relied on Chinese warning system, Chinese alert system, and that also was not functioning as well as might be expected under circumstances.
So it was a combination of know a unique urgency a uniquely critical situation plus failed responses that would not that would have been subpar even for a normal natural disaster much less for something highly unusual
thank you so now moving on on to the big topics that we will be covering we'll talk about the iran u.s war that is escalating makeup act venezuela oil deal and ukraine and much more but before that irena let's touch a bit on nepal nepal disaster how does it what is your view from that part of the world how does it look like And especially, will it impact anyway the regional setup here because the Prime Minister there, he had a different voice altogether, some sort of damages and all those things from neighboring countries and all of that.
It's been a combination of human failures, extreme traumatic conditions, and also infrastructural weaknesses.
It was a combination of terrible flooding and debris falling down, entering the flooding zone and actually causing even more damage as the water with the debris and mud and rocks and everything was slid downwards and and created even greater momentum to spread laterally and to destroy infrastructure along the way and sweep that infrastructure along with it.
And essentially, because of the geography, because of the intersection of several rivers, it created a situation where multiple areas were affected almost simultaneously.
Impossible to really evacuate and give notice to this critical emergency situation.
And it created an isolation of certain areas and isolation of entire groups of people who were not within the normal zone of evacuation.
These were areas that would not be would not be affected by rock slides or mud slides or flooding.
So the people who were trapped there or who were affected and impacted and killed or injured, Many of them were not from areas that would normally be prepared for such conditions because this was a once-in-a-lifetime event combining several unusual circumstances.
On top of that natural element, there was also the human element of not having a rapid response team or management system, because while the disaster was ongoing, the local authorities were trying to figure out what was happening and they were simply not passing on information quickly enough to make a difference.
And frankly, even if they did in some places, it still wouldn't have been fast enough.
Another issue was that a lot of the local authorities and the Nepalese government relied on Chinese warning system, Chinese alert system, and that also was not functioning as well as might be expected under circumstances.
So it was a combination of know a unique urgency a uniquely critical situation plus failed responses that would not that would have been subpar even for a normal natural disaster much less for something highly unusual
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