hnair wrote: ↑12 Jul 2024 00:03
sanman, thanks for the explanation and appreciate your view on this.
Not just addresss to you, but addressing others also who has preferences to some political groupings, here are some things that would help us all get a good idea
1) why is Trump good for India? During the last term he has been indulging in boorish behaviour towards India despite PM Modi going to far extents to make him happy? His comments about Harley vs Mangoes, India’s vaccine priority etc are petty and India don’t have to coddle him anymore. His tightening of H1B/GC processing to a snail pace (affected Indian businesses and PIO families a lot) and the whole BS around Doha talks, which was the initiator for the Taliban and other Pashtun factions takeover of Afghanistan. His SD was never openly pro-India when it came to china as he was more interested in his own trade wars.
(Indian foreign office deftly converted Trump initiated crisis by converting the new Kabul govt from Taliban to a Pashtun-centric one and made that General Faiz with his tea look silly, but no thanks to Trump. Trump did zero consulting with India despite requests).
Trump was more sincerely interesting in pushing back against the rise of China as his main foreign policy priority, and this gave India more importance.
2) Why should Biden be an issue for India? Till now, his rule has been pretty neutral towards India other than jibes about democratic backsliding etc, any internal issues the Americans have about his age, migration etc is not of interest to us. He has been pumping up LRASM numbers in Indo-PAC, turning a blind eye on Russian oil refining, subtly snubbing Trudeau’s version of Indian wet-ops etc but at same time twiddling his thumbs during Galwan or SCS issues. So mixed bag, but claiming he is terrible for India is not backed by facts.
Biden is senile -- a hollow vessel into which others insert their thoughts and agendas -- he's entirely programmable by his coterie.
NeoCons -- the same ones who brazenly illegally invaded Iraq -- are present in both political parties, and are firmly embedded in the Whitehouse, carrying out an agenda of aggressive assertive imperialism to re-draw the international order to "make the world safe for Israel". These NeoCons first emerged in the wake of the catastrophic collapse of BJ Clinton & Madeleine Notbright's failed Oslo "peace process" which resulted in unprecedented violence between Israelis and Palestinians. When the 9/11 attacks occurred, the NeoCons used this as an opportunity to launch their imperialist campaign. They quickly withdrew US forces from Afghanistan in 2003 ("Mission Accomplished") and immediately ran to declare war on Iraq to kill Saddam Hussein(again, "making the world safe for Israel"). Then under Obama they used protests in Egypt's Tahrir Square to stir up Arab Spring to further re-draw Middle East, using it as a cover to overthrow Libya's Qadafi and kill him(again, "making the world safe for Israel"). They also immediately launched an insurgency campaign to destabilize Syria to overthrow Assad(again, "to make the world safe for Israel") -- but Putin got in their way when he deployed the Russian military to save his valued Syrian client.
This then put Putin/Russia in the crosshairs of the hyper-aggressive NeoCons, who immediately started hammering on the sensitive fault-line of Ukraine. And that's why we now have Russia-Ukraine war and a new Cold War, and this is now posing serious danger to India, putting us under serious pressure from a hard-charging cabal in the Whitehouse. Look at that a-hole Garcetti increasingly uttering ominous threats to India. He was Biden's hand-picked appointee.
It's worth mentioning that during that Arab Spring period, USA brought forth their man Kejriwal to spread that Arab Spring to India. To these Washington elites, we're just a different shade of sand-n!gger. There are plenty of Israelis who see us Indians as fellow allies opposing jihadis. The NeoCons do not think that way - to them, we're just another kind of backward nonWestern savage. They don't give a crap about "world's largest democracy" -- they just care about bringing us to heel, along with all the other sand-n!ggers. That's why their crooked sepoy Kejriwal was trying to demolish the checks and balances of the Indian constitution to replace it with his Lokpal rubbish.
It's because Indian govt has dared to arrest America's "Man in Havana (New Delhi)" that Obama has been spewing denunciations against "autocrat" Modi.
3) Democrat vs Republicans: which party allows PIOs to rise high? Currently it is Republicans with two past Governors and current two POTUS candidates. The Democrats have stopped caring about PIO interests at some point of Obama Administration and seem to go only for their money/votes while giving prominence to identity politics centering around blacks, sexual outliers and islamists. This is in sharp contrast to 15 years back when Republicans were using EJs to channel vote banks using communalism and Indians/dharmics got short end of the stick. Neither Biden nor Trump cares two squeaky hoots for PIO interests. So why should this forum need to listen to partisan claptrap from either sides?
They're politicians, they only care about their own interests. But Trump's and Republican's nationalism contrasts with Democrat trans-nationalist globalist imperialism and vote-bank-ism.
Nations can serve as platforms of accountability, and have constitutions (at least the decent ones do).
This globalism stuff is just imperialism under a new guise, which seeks to dismantle nations and weaken their constitutions, and replace accountability with cronyism and remote control.
So from an Indian PoV, shouldn’t these sort of points be relevant than why two very rich and old white men are attractive because they are not senile or not snarky? The abuse of power against a political opponent is good only for talking points when putting down some gora when they wag a finger at India, not for this forum. But PIO or Indian interests are not served if one blindly sign away wealth and votes to either side
Hope we can have some threads and discussions on those lines!
I'm not presenting Trump as a saint. I'm saying that his self-interest is less at odds with India's interests, as compared to Biden and his crooked NeoCon Globalist imperialist coterie.
That being said, I'm worried that Trump may not move quickly enough to wind down the Ukraine war.
But I hope that he at least corrals the Deep State, and downsizes their dangerous cesspool apparatus.
