India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Adrija · Post by **Adrija** » 28 Mar 2022 12:58

nandakumar ji,

Idev-garu has already responded to your post, just to add to it: availability outside of home country is at best a supporting factor, as I had also originally mentioned. The core requirement to be a reserve currency is economics. US dollar supremacy will endure as long as Murica remains the largest consumer economy on the planet and meets its requirements by imports, and other countries are happy to supply that demand and accept dollars in return

For all the talk of deficits, US is actually quite a self-sufficient country... their trade ratio is ~26% IIRC, which is quite low for its size. In contrast, Germany was ~ 80%, China ~ 35%...~India 37%... all figures from memory for 2019/ 2020 period

Also, US has never really been dependent on MidEast oil. Most of their imports before the fracking boom were from Venezuela and Canada.

So basically Murica is quite happy in its little protected island, with one exception as below- which is now changing and the earthquake contours of which we are witnessing

The one place where Murica imposed dollar as trade currency was w KSA re petro-dollars in exchange for taking over the local guardian role from the British Raj, inthe FDR- Saud ~ 1940s accord. With the rise of fracking, and the transition from the oil age (which demise projections are a bit exaggerated, IMHO), US thinks it can withdraw from MidEast. What we see currently is the fight between the Atlanticists (who hold RU to be the long term threat) and the China hawks... the Biden win has meant that the Atlanticists are back in power and guiding US foreign policy

I personally lack the depth of knowledge to assess if a move away from MidEast focus, and hence the fallout on petro-dollars would be (a) even feasible, and (b) if so, the impact it would have on dollar as reserve currency... perhaps more knowledgeable gurus could comment on that

My 2 paise and all that pls

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 28 Mar 2022 20:18

Thanks to @iMac_too

Brown sepoys Fareed and Rajan are in India batting for their colonial master and putting pressure on India to side with imperialists. Both are being hosted by rNDTV

Here are the gems from Rockstar Rajan

https://twitter.com/iMac_too/status/1508451095667871756
People celebrating ration or easy toilet or something like that ....

https://twitter.com/iMac_too/status/1508416679637778435
Here is worried that thing string of victories will be taken by people as endorsement of their policies of delivery which he thinks is tremendously dangerous

Remember this agent tried everything to prevent Modi from second term

Zynda · Post by **Zynda** » 28 Mar 2022 20:34

^^If there is any kind of colour revolution or spring type of event in India, NDTV will be an active & willing media and propaganda partner/accomplice. Serious deep ties in multiple domains with US establishments...probably has quite influential and powerful lobby to ensure that they remain out of touch from various GoI institutions so that they can continue to operate unimpeded

rsingh · Post by **rsingh** » 28 Mar 2022 21:27

vijayk wrote:Thanks to @iMac_too

Brown sepoys Fareed and Rajan are in India batting for their colonial master and putting pressure on India to side with imperialists. Both are being hosted by rNDTV

Here are the gems from Rockstar Rajan

https://twitter.com/iMac_too/status/1508451095667871756
People celebrating ration or easy toilet or something like that ....

https://twitter.com/iMac_too/status/1508416679637778435
Here is worried that thing string of victories will be taken by people as endorsement of their policies of delivery which he thinks is tremendously dangerous

Remember this agent tried everything to prevent Modi from second term

What exactly is problem with this guy. Is still parked in India?

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 28 Mar 2022 21:38

He has moved to the USA long time back

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 29 Mar 2022 01:39

Zynda wrote:^^If there is any kind of colour revolution or spring type of event in India, NDTV will be an active & willing media and propaganda partner/accomplice. Serious deep ties in multiple domains with US establishments...probably has quite influential and powerful lobby to ensure that they remain out of touch from various GoI institutions so that they can continue to operate unimpeded

Didn't reliance invest in rNDTV and Adanis in Quint?
We need to penetrate these and destroy them from inside

mappunni · Post by **mappunni** » 29 Mar 2022 03:48

FedEx names Raj Subramaniam as CEO, replacing founder Fred Smith

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/28/fedex-n ... smith.html

More heartburn from Paxatanis post this announcement.

vimal · Post by **vimal** » 29 Mar 2022 04:02

Does FedEx even deliver anything to paxis?

Mort Walker · Post by **Mort Walker** » 29 Mar 2022 04:08

vimal wrote:Does FedEx even deliver anything to paxis?

Yes. Bums, drugs and gay p0rn.

KLNMurthy · Post by **KLNMurthy** » 29 Mar 2022 04:29

ramana wrote:A question from a friend:
"I want to understand why desi Democrats take any comment on US personally .. and defend US even on Iraq Libya etc!"
Adding more vehmently than native born Americans.

We have the label of MUTU exactly for this purpose.

Why do MUTUs exist? We can go into that, but it’s not that useful I think.

Rudradev · Post by **Rudradev** » 29 Mar 2022 04:38

I knew a few Desi Republicans in the George W Bush era who were equally MUTU. Even to the extent of insisting that India should show restraint with Pakistan despite jihadi terrorist atrocities, while at the same time championing Bush's war against Iraq etc.

But in those days, very few Desis were Republicans. Most Desis before 2015-16 were either Democrats (and largely MUTU) or apolitical.

It is the Desis who became Republicans during the Trump era who are, for the most part, not MUTU (and who are avowedly pro-Modi).

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 29 Mar 2022 05:06

Aditya_V wrote:He has moved to the USA long time back

that why he says in the same interview

"WE" imposed sanctions......

his dreams of becoming a remote controlled PM, a la slippery sardar, have completely evaporated

his BIF masters must be disappointed with their congi mafia coolie(s), hence the aapaapi hit parade in punjab

these congi mafia coolie(s) did their election campaigning with videos of their royal personages dancing with some tribals. dynastic buffoonery at its worst

Didn't such "cute" public spectacle involving the swinging natives go out with the likes of queen victoria gratuitously patronizing her colonial subjects

g.sarkar · Post by **g.sarkar** » 29 Mar 2022 12:17

https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opin ... shaky-base
President Biden, India is not shaky, your base is
M.D. Nalapat, March 26, 2022
Why the leadership of NATO is eager to convert a European country into another Syria, Libya or Afghanistan is unclear.
The more things change, they say, the more they remain the same. There were several from the professional and business classes who fled Iraq under Saddam Hussein to safer locations. Over the years, since their arrival in the US in particular, the new citizens began working the phone lines convincing those involved with policy that the rest of the population of Iraq was very similar to them. That they were closet liberal democrats, waiting for deliverance from Saddam Hussein. That last part was not wrong at all, so far as the Shia majority in Iraq was concerned. Saddam filled his government with Sunnis, and very few Shias, and with a disproportionate number of high positions going to those from Saddam’s home province, Tikrit. It was not accidental that Saddam launched an attack on Iran soon after the clergy under Grand Ayatollah Khomeini took charge in 1979. Most of those sent to the front line as fodder for Iranian artillery were Shia, sent to battle and perish facing the almost entirely Shia military mobilised by Tehran. The Kurds were also suppressed, not by sending them into battle but by bombing their villages and towns once President George H.W. Bush obligingly allowed the Iraqi Air Force to once again take to the skies to “establish order”. For an Iraqi resident in her or his own country, being opposed to Saddam Hussein was likely to end badly for the opponent and much of his family and friends, barring those who had reported the enemy of Saddam (sorry, Iraq) to the Mukhabarat. Almost as risky was to be close to him, for with rare exceptions, the dictator was less than constant in his choice of favourites, and before a new batch was selected and placed in suitable positions of trust, many of those in the earlier batch of favourites found themselves either in graves or in prison. Those were horrible times, with pulses racing with dread each time the doorbell rang. Ridding Iraq of Saddam Hussein was deliverance. The manner in which the country was subsequently occupied and ruled by President Bush with help from Labour grandee Tony Blair was a disaster for the world. As is the manner in which the Biden-Johnson duo is “helping” the Ukrainian people, much the same way as “a hangman’s rope supports the hanged”. The transparent reprise of US strategy followed in 1980s Afghanistan of Cold War 1.0 enemy the USSR will inevitably choke to dangerous levels the very survival of the people of that unfortunate country. President Zelenskyy and many of his advisors are Jewish, but seem not to have had much contact with Israel or they would have understood better how to ensure that their policies enable Ukraine to survive the war launched on it by the Russian Federation on 24 February.
Judging by the trajectory of events, the probability is rising that in about six more weeks of Russian countermoves to what passes for “generous NATO assistance” Ukraine would be converted into a wasteland, with almost half its population newly resident in countries to its west, excepting the two having the most vociferous Cold War 1.0 warriors, the UK and the US, the two countries that are most complicit in what from the start has been a hopeless battle against a military machine that has long prepared itself for war, not just with Ukraine but with NATO. In case there are still some realist minds within the Pentagon working in Net Assessment, they may wish to consider the probability of Russia starting a war to regain control of the Baltic states and afterwards, grabbing as much territory in Poland as to close the land corridor into Russia provided within that country from invaders moving in from the west. The land, sea and air corridors leading to the Baltic states are, of course, eminently vulnerable to an attack from Belarus and the Russian Federation.
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Gautam

Cyrano · Post by **Cyrano** » 29 Mar 2022 13:20

Nalapat's reading is flawed. Current US policy is simply driven by a visceral Putin hatred, and supported by the greed of once again looting a post-Putin Russia like they did in the 90s. Russia's commodity treasures are immensely more valuable than ever before. Ukraine was part manipulated by the US and partly signed up willingly for this project, blinded by its people's greed to get prosperous overnight by becoming part of EU and its mafia leaders who rightly thought the west has more riches to offer than Russia. Little did they understand that they will become a doormat for US' attempt of re-entry into Russia.

Russia will not go after Poland unless they do something stupid (which they seem very eager to do), nor will they go after tiny baltic states which are already part of NATO - the risk/reward is simply not there. Post Ukrainian invasion which is not yet resolved, Russia will need time to rebuild its capacities and regain conventional defensive capabilities first, and some offensive capabilities next, which will take a few years.

Rudradev · Post by **Rudradev** » 29 Mar 2022 20:44

Cyrano wrote:
Russia will not go after Poland unless they do something stupid (which they seem very eager to do).

Well-- in today's headlines, Biden seems to have revealed (during a senile moment) that the US is training "Ukrainian soldiers" in Poland. In effect, just like the 1980s, Poland is acting as America's Pakistan to turn Ukraine into Russia's Afghanistan.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/2 ... n-00021123

GShankar · Post by **GShankar** » 29 Mar 2022 21:03

Rudradev wrote: It is the Desis who became Republicans during the Trump era who are, for the most part, not MUTU (and who are avowedly pro-Modi).

Very important observation. Before Modi, the political inroads into any of the parties meant becoming MUTU and convert - like kamal-AAh, hail-E and Bob-E for example.

Now, i hope the new lot will expand to dems as well and provide counter to hinduphobia.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 29 Mar 2022 21:25

Cyrano wrote:Nalapat's reading is flawed. Current US policy is simply driven by a visceral Putin hatred, and supported by the greed of once again looting a post-Putin Russia like they did in the 90s. Russia's commodity treasures are immensely more valuable than ever before. Ukraine was part manipulated by the US and partly signed up willingly for this project, blinded by its people's greed to get prosperous overnight by becoming part of EU and its mafia leaders who rightly thought the west has more riches to offer than Russia. Little did they understand that they will become a doormat for US' attempt of re-entry into Russia.

Russia will not go after Poland unless they do something stupid (which they seem very eager to do), nor will they go after tiny baltic states which are already part of NATO - the risk/reward is simply not there. Post Ukrainian invasion which is not yet resolved, Russia will need time to rebuild its capacities and regain conventional defensive capabilities first, and some offensive capabilities next, which will take a few years.

this also plays a vital part in the sheer hatred of the west for putin and his strong support of the russian orthodox church. They have never acknowledged the papacy and have always kept the pope clear of access to the russian masses, even though the papists have tried many times to make inroads into russia

The Orthodox faith, which includes Russian Orthodox, maintains many differences from the Western faiths of Roman Catholicism and Protestant Christianity. Culture, geography and ideology have all played roles in separating Russian Orthodox from Western Christianity.

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 29 Mar 2022 21:33

wrong forum

bala · Post by **bala** » 29 Mar 2022 21:34

looting a post-Putin Russia like they did in the 90s

This seems to be the general theme everywhere. The Anglo Saxon breed is prone to looting everywhere globally, that is their nature. Take things from others and camouflage the operation to make them look good in the process and blame the victim (SOP). They did it to all wealthy areas of the world. Just the loot from India is 300T pounds and formed the basis of wealth of most of the Banks in Europe and USA. India funded the MIC of US after world war II via Britain. Recently Bosnia was carved out for their rare earth wealth.

Manish_Sharma · Post by **Manish_Sharma** » 30 Mar 2022 01:57

@Chellaney:

Whenever India doesn’t blindly follow the West, the standard Western criticism is that it is “unprepared to step up to major power responsibilities.” But today, a neutral India is being courted by both sides. After Lavrov's India visit, the US will hold a 2+2 meeting with India.

https://twitter.com/Chellaney/status/15 ... q_fyw&s=19

Zynda · Post by **Zynda** » 30 Mar 2022 20:14

US Deputy NSA to Visit India Ahead of Russian Foreign Minister's Arrival

Daleep Singh's trip will come just before Sergey Lavrov arrives in India either on Thursday evening or Friday morning.

Apparenty Daleep Singh was the dude (or his team) responsible for developing economic sanctions framework against Russia.

Wonder what could be the intent behind this visit ahead of Russian FM visit!

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 30 Mar 2022 20:55

Biden had joked Indians are taking over everywhere while talking to the Mars mission scientist.
Maybe he thought sending desi origin will convince India!*
Next, send Ro Khanna as Biden plenipotentiary!

*India has an Indian NSA.
US has an Indian-American Dy NSA!!

Aldonkar · Post by **Aldonkar** » 30 Mar 2022 21:26

ramana wrote:Biden had joked Indians are taking over everywhere while talking to the Mars mission scientist.
Maybe he thought sending desi origin will convince India!*
Next, send Ro Khanna as Biden plenipotentiary!

*India has an Indian NSA.
US has an Indian-American Dy NSA!!

The US must have multiple Dy NSAs as on yesterday's evening news the BBC had an American Dy NSA speaking about UKraine. He was a black man of about 30, very well spoken, and when his name came up on the screen I could see he was of Nigerian origin. So Maybe the US have several of these Deputy NSA running around the world.

Manish_P · Post by **Manish_P** » 30 Mar 2022 23:34

ramana wrote:Biden had joked Indians are taking over everywhere while talking to the Mars mission scientist.
Maybe he thought sending desi origin will convince India!*
Next, send Ro Khanna as Biden plenipotentiary!

*India has an Indian NSA.
US has an Indian-American Dy NSA!!

Sir, they know they can't do a Pakistan with us.. viz having a US citizen as the national NSA.. so they are doing the next best thing. Apparently just like the Pakis, they still seem to not want to let go of the 'equal-equal' of old.

Abhi_G · Post by **Abhi_G** » 31 Mar 2022 00:12

GShankar wrote:
Rudradev wrote: It is the Desis who became Republicans during the Trump era who are, for the most part, not MUTU (and who are avowedly pro-Modi).
Very important observation. Before Modi, the political inroads into any of the parties meant becoming MUTU and convert - like kamal-AAh, hail-E and Bob-E for example.

Now, i hope the new lot will expand to dems as well and provide counter to hinduphobia.

Maybe OT, but thought of sharing.

Circa 2009-2010, there were a flurry of visits by Sibal, Montek to ivy league univ on the east coast. These gents were representatives from the GoI of those times. The poster of their talk on their univ website showed the India map starting from Punjab in the north and without entire NE. I was amazed to see zero protest from Indian students from the univ. The Indian Student Association did zilch to the best of my knowledge...or maybe they protested in hushed tones. Who knows?

I emailed my protest; another BRFite joined me (forget his name). The manager turned out to be from queendom. They took the poster off from the website. The manager, however, informed (reminded us) that the maps were created by a third party and the creator was desi onlee. Who knows what was the truth.

After all if GoI reps (sibal, montek, babus...) are okay with distorted maps at meetings where they were invited, why should students at univ bother?

g.sarkar · Post by **g.sarkar** » 31 Mar 2022 23:40

https://www.rediff.com/news/report/us-w ... 220331.htm
US warns India against circumventing Russia sanctions
Source: PTI, Edited By: Utkarsh Mishra, March 31, 2022
The United States on Thursday swill be consequences for countries that actively attempt to 'circumvent or backfill' American sanctions against Russia and said it would not like to see a 'rapid' acceleration in India's imports from Russia including energy and other commodities.
US Deputy National Security Adviser Daleep Singh also referred to the 'no limits' partnership between Moscow and Beijing and said no one believes that Russia would come running to India's defence if China breaches the Line of Actual Control.
Singh said India's current import of Russian energy doesn't violate any of the American sanctions as the US had given exemption on the flow of energy from Russia, but at the same time added that Washington would like to see its allies and partners find ways to reduce their reliance on an 'unreliable supplier'.
The US Deputy NSA, who played a key role in designing American sanctions against Russia, arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday on a two-day visit in the backdrop of increasing disquiet among Western powers over India not criticising Russia over its attack on Ukraine.
"We would not like to see mechanisms that are designed to prop up the rouble or to undermine the dollar-based financial system or to circumvent our financial sanctions," he told a small group of reporters.
His comments came on a day Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov begins his two-day India visit that could see discussions on a rouble-rupee payment mechanism for bilateral trade including New Delhi's purchase of Russian Oil.
"What we would not like to see is a rapid acceleration of India's imports from Russia as it relates to energy or any other exports that are currently being prohibited by the US or by other aspects of the international sanctions regime," he said.
Singh was asked about India's decision to purchase discounted oil from Russia.
He said the US stands ready to help India in meeting its requirement for energy and defence equipment.
"So the conversation I've had here is that we stand ready to help India diversify its energy resources, much like is the case for defence resources over a period of time," he added.
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Gautam

S_Madhukar · Post by **S_Madhukar** » 31 Mar 2022 23:49

Someone needs to tell Unkil that for countries foreign relations are not like swiping on Tinder left and right for a Friday bender. Plus not all countries are lucky to have Oiro and Mexican chicks on speed dial

Najunamar · Post by **Najunamar** » 31 Mar 2022 23:50

What steps do PIOs and NRIs take if US hits India with sanctions? How can we send money to our family in India? Would it become necessary to plan for such an eventuality or is Bharat already like China in terms of the squeeze we can put on the US in turn so they dare not think along those terms? What levers can we pull or set in motion to mitigate if not insulate Desh from any stupidities of Amirkhan?

I have purposely avoided the "play dead and roll over" option as it is definitely not a desirable option.

Cyrano · Post by **Cyrano** » 01 Apr 2022 00:05

"What we would not like to see is a rapid acceleration of India's imports from Russia as it relates to energy or any other exports that are currently being prohibited by the US or by other aspects of the international sanctions regime,"

What he is saying basically is: "We hope to topple Putin and loot Russia once again, don't take advantage now and make it harder for us."

g.sarkar · Post by **g.sarkar** » 01 Apr 2022 00:08

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-60939406
Liz Truss visits India on same day as Sergei Lavrov
3/34/2022
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov are both visiting India in competing efforts to strengthen ties.
Ms Truss is urging Delhi to work with other democracies to counter Russia's invasion of Ukraine, by reducing its dependence on Moscow.
The Russian foreign minister will call on India to bypass Western sanctions, and buy more Russian oil and gas.
India has not condemned the invasion and did not vote against it at the UN.
Ms Truss, who has spoken of a "network of liberty", told her Indian opposite number Subrahmanyam Jaishankar it was vital that democracies worked together to deter aggressors.
Appearing alongside him at an event in Delhi, she said the war in Ukraine had also underlined the need for "like-minded nations" to co-operate more closely on defence, trade, and energy and food security.
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Gautam

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 01 Apr 2022 00:12

Su Su Swamy's daughter Ms. Haidar got so excited by Uncle's stern warning to India .... She can't stop gushing

Cyrano · Post by **Cyrano** » 01 Apr 2022 00:18

Liz Truss is a woke dud. SJ would be having a hard time not bursting out laughing !

Cyrano · Post by **Cyrano** » 01 Apr 2022 00:23

Najunamar wrote:What steps do PIOs and NRIs take if US hits India with sanctions? How can we send money to our family in India?

Don't worry saar, firstly, such a thing will not happen. Who will run America's IT ? Even if it does, cunning yindoos will come up with creative options. Some variant of hawala or 100% legit money routing will emerge.

vera_k · Post by **vera_k** » 01 Apr 2022 01:06

g.sarkar wrote:The United States on Thursday swill be consequences for countries that actively attempt to 'circumvent or backfill' American sanctions against Russia and said it would not like to see a 'rapid' acceleration in India's imports from Russia including energy and other commodities.

IMO, this is just an excuse for the inevitable distancing from India. I say this, because it's not too much effort to run an extra shift on the printing press and hand over enough $s to India to neutralize the discount the Russians are offering.

Rudradev · Post by **Rudradev** » 01 Apr 2022 01:53

Najunamar wrote:What steps do PIOs and NRIs take if US hits India with sanctions? How can we send money to our family in India? Would it become necessary to plan for such an eventuality or is Bharat already like China in terms of the squeeze we can put on the US in turn so they dare not think along those terms? What levers can we pull or set in motion to mitigate if not insulate Desh from any stupidities of Amirkhan?

I have purposely avoided the "play dead and roll over" option as it is definitely not a desirable option.

Depends on your individual goals, stage in life/career etc.

If you are in at least mid-career and planning on moving back to India eventually, I would start repatriating as much as possible of your wealth now. Rather than sending money back to family at regular intervals, park it all in a mutual fund or similar scheme within India (they give better rates anyway) and let that fund your family's needs back home. Scale down your lifestyle here, move to a smaller or rented place. Go liquid and send as much of it back as possible.

If you are planning to stay in the US, then of course you need the bulk of your wealth to remain in the US. The more you can do to ensure that your family back home is well set up and not dependent on your income in the medium-to-long term, the better. Get them used to the idea that these pipes can be turned off overnight at the will of GOTUS.

Of course, if you have children who were born in the US and want to remain there, while you yourself want to go back to India eventually, that is a tough one. But one thing is for certain: the days when NRI/PIOs could dream of an easy bi-continental lifestyle (winter in India, summer in US, property and investments distributed everywhere) are severely numbered. The price of having that sort of lifestyle was globalism, and globalism has declared Modi Sarkar (and any version of assertively nationalist and independent India) to be an intolerable enemy.

As far as levers and putting a China-type squeeze on GOTUS to avoid such a thing happening, that's really up to the GOI. I don't know how far we are along the way to acquiring such leverage. But I think the repercussions of the sanctions on Russia post-Ukraine (Rouble already recovering, while an energy crisis and hyperinflation loom in Western countries) will make the US less eager to use the same weapons again-- particularly with regard to China, where the effectiveness will be greatly reduced and the blowback will be much worse.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 01 Apr 2022 03:12

g.sarkar wrote:https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-60939406
Liz Truss visits India on same day as Sergei Lavrov
3/34/2022
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov are both visiting India in competing efforts to strengthen ties.
Ms Truss is urging Delhi to work with other democracies to counter Russia's invasion of Ukraine, by reducing its dependence on Moscow.
The Russian foreign minister will call on India to bypass Western sanctions, and buy more Russian oil and gas.
India has not condemned the invasion and did not vote against it at the UN.
Ms Truss, who has spoken of a "network of liberty", told her Indian opposite number Subrahmanyam Jaishankar it was vital that democracies worked together to deter aggressors.
Appearing alongside him at an event in Delhi, she said the war in Ukraine had also underlined the need for "like-minded nations" to co-operate more closely on defence, trade, and energy and food security.
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Gautam

we've been promoted from "those troublesome natives" to "like-minded nations". That's real progress and also, the britshits must be really hurting after brexit

have the britshits run out of grain and are looking to close a deal

alok_m · Post by **alok_m** » 01 Apr 2022 09:36

US sent a barking dog before Lavrov's meeting about INR-Ruble arrangements and potential use of bypassing SWIFT using Russian alternative.

https://www.timesnownews.com/india/us-d ... e-90582007
New Delhi: A day after United States Deputy NSA Daleep Singh warned India against importing energy and other commodities from Russia, former permanent representative of India to the United Nations Syed Akbaruddin said this is not the language of diplomacy but coercion.
The US does not want to see any spike in in India’s imports from Russia barred by global sanctions, said Singh on Thursday and issued a stern warning to nations that try to circumvent the embargoes imposed on Moscow against its special operation in Ukraine.
Singh said that countries, including India, will face consequences if they conduct local currency transactions through Russia’s central bank or establish a payment mechanism that subverts sanctions against Russia imposed by the US.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 01 Apr 2022 14:41

WA gyan and right on the button

US deputy NSA Daleep Singh is a bigger Indian than Kamala Harris.

Singh cunningly reminded India today that “Russia won’t defend India if China were to violate the Line of Actual Control.”

But sir, neither will the USA!

hanumadu · Post by **hanumadu** » 01 Apr 2022 14:49

This even while the US deputy NSA was in India threatening India not to buy Russian oil. Not one guy supporting the US in the comments. More and more people around the world are calling the US hypocrisy on the Ukraine war.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 01 Apr 2022 14:53

house negro, when visiting sasural onlee

such guys will hasten the sunset of the US era

MUTU

BTW, did anyone, for that matter, come running to India's defence in 2020?

In actual fact, the amerikis stayed mum and frozen, fearful of the consequences of poking the cheeni