With the western world collapsing, we’ll see which countries are our real friends.
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I personally want this statement to be true, but now that the Indian foreign policy establishment has said it, it’s most likely not true at all.
I fucking hate jaishankar.
why?
He is a huckster. He just gloms onto language and expropriates as his own. But he is just a face that sangh can trot out to say wow india has 7d chess foreign policy. He says these weightless statements all the while India does business as usual in billions with the west. He doesn’t believe in shit. He says these things so he gets a following in my country to hype him and sell his shitty books.
He wants a war with china as much as usa. Its very weird where anyone who doesn’t know who this fucking guy is or india is just being like “Whoa so based and mulitpolarity bro” without much awareness. No India is very much in favor of american hegemon.
The media tries to present him as sagely and wise when he never has anything of value to say.
He is vapid and obnoxious. Not to mention the cult like build up he gets on youtube and sangh cirlces : Jaisankar sigma boss move owns dumb person videos 😎
Don’t forget military deals with Israel. Great fkn foreign policy
He wants a war with china as much as usa.
Giving the Indian government the benefit of the doubt–aren’t they basically forced to be anti-China? China’s claiming the disputed territories of Aksai Chin, Arunachal, and is also creating new disputes in Sikkim and elsewhere on the Himalayan border.
Of these disputes, the only remotely debatable one is Aksai Chin, the rest objectively belong to India on extremely obvious geographic and historical grounds
Well if the Indian admin wants to resolve the territory issue they can do it with diplomatic talks and that doesn’t require nor force anyone to launch war or be anti china. Cause if there is one thing that the Indian admin definitely does not even pretend to care about its the north east. Like don’t believe me, look at the recent pogroms in manipur. Just unimaginably vile.
To elaborate no sankar or broadly other war hawks don’t need the border issue to be anti china. They do it for appeasement. Like banning chinese apps and calling it spyware. Or banning chinese companies to have operating stores. Or even getting at news websites cause they are considered chinese spies (new york times breathed life into that). No they don’t do it cause they forced their hand by border issue. They do it cause its good to be in USAs graces. They would love to anyway. Xenophobia is easier to peddle cause sangh won’t mind.
Or else they don’t wanna jeopardize the 3 billion deal. Or displease london overlords backing out large industrial deals.
Sankar or the admin don’t want a war cause of the border. Its cause whatever west wants the next push to war be. I’m sure cause of the possible sanctions on india for that iran deal, they will trot something to fall into the graces again.
if there is one thing that the Indian admin definitely does not even pretend to care about its the north east. Like don’t believe me, look at the recent pogroms in manipur.
There are similar pogroms except in the opposite direction, and on a more massive scale, in Burma (one of China’s closest allies). The Rohingya crisis is as big as the Palestinian one, and bigger than anything going on in NE India.
To elaborate no sankar or broadly other war hawks don’t need the border issue to be anti china. They do it for appeasement. Like banning chinese apps and calling it spyware. Or banning chinese companies to have operating stores.
China has been claiming and fighting over Arunachal since 1962. Arunachal is undebatably part of the Indian continental landmass, which is the most clearly delineated landmass on the planet.
Arunachal is ALSO the source of the Brahmaputra/Ganges, which feeds 600 million Indians
war hawks don’t need the border issue to be anti china. They do it for appeasement. Like banning chinese apps and calling it spyware. No they don’t do it cause they forced their hand by border issue. They do it cause its good to be in USAs graces
If your neighbor is claiming your land for the last 60 years, why wouldn’t you side against them?
During the Cold War, India sided with the USSR over the US. Because of USA’s arming of Pakistan.
Today, India sides with the US over China. Because of China’s claim over Arunachal and other disputed territories. It’s not rocket scienceYes, the Indian leaders are just copying the US Chinaphobia.
The difference is that the Westoid rich are doing it purely because they’ll lose one of their mansions, while the Indian leaders are doing it because of that and ALSO because China is trying to conquer an area that feeds 10% of the world’s population.The USA’s Chinaphobia is not existential, India’s is.
Frankly China could easily settle this matter if they really wanted. Although that wouldn’t fix the BJP-induced inequality overnight, it would open up space for protest and rebellion within India, because y’know people are more accepting of inequality when 1/2 their population is being threatened by land claims
I don’t think you get what I mean by Indian government doesn’t care about north east. North east is by far neglected and underdeveloped. Most from the Ne have to move to down south or towards other states to find a like living where they get constantly demonized. The manipur pogroms were vile and are a demonstration of how the admin handles anything there. The rohingya genocide is very horrifying and is a systematic one. I know what the rohingya genocide is. I live in south india and there’s decent amount rohingya’s who escaped to come seek refugee. And they are targeted by the government and are under threat even after escaping genocide.
India and Bangladesh along with other intelligence even help the genociders hunt down rohingya people. The recent pogroms in manipur are probably the biggest since sangh pogroms in 2002. Not only that they even broadcasted their atrocities to galvanize more people. This bleeds into the border crisis at Mizoram and Bangladesh. The genocide in Myanmar is massive scale and has been going for a long time now. The Indian north east pertains to the Indian government not to Myanmar. This is a big crisis. I bought it up cause Indian doesn’t mind doing this sort of build up in the north east. Let alone seriously want to solve arunachal pradesh’s border.
The manipur pogroms were done by the right cause sangh aided them and wanted to seize elections through that. Likewise a lot of other tensions in Arunachal were built up with citizenship act trying to target chamkas and hajongs to ethnically cleanse them.
Cold war era nehru pushed by kennedy’s admin and down the line indira’s policy are way different. Yeah its not rocket science, guess what since 70s war with pak the sights shifted to pak. The USA admin almost nuked india at that time. It doesn’t side with china out of hatred to the usa siding with pak. Pak is also a china ally now. It sides cause it wants to trade anyway.
No the indian government didn’t copy west chinaphobia. They did the bans before usa banned chinese software along with make in india. No this xenophobia isn’t something comes out of this border dispute. India’s xenophobia extends to its north east states cause of the sangh. Its not born out of this dispute. The population is more threatened by the sangh and the rabid shit it wants to do. Than it is by china. No India doesn’t care about rivers at this or the environment in that area as shown by their shitty policies for uttarakhand.
Frankly this is all still overlooking how USA lobbies since sixty or how much Us intelligence was doing in north east. Or how much India does this horrible shows of asserting power. Or still backing dalai lama. Even then the admin now feels they can just negotiate this issue.
My original comment was to point that sankar is a hollow person who just gloms to western points when convenient. And no he doesn’t think of the border dispute when it comes to rattling to china or policy. He only cites what any one from what the west says. Cause again India neglects that area and keeps pointing at china while ignoring what india conducts. Its more convenient than the bungled negotiations at the border.
The genocide in Myanmar is massive scale and has been going for a long time now. The Indian north east pertains to the Indian government not to Myanmar.
Yes, and my point is that Myanmar is a very close ally of China. It’s doubtful that China cares about genocide, and it’s obvious that they had no moral high ground to stand on back in 1962, when they began fighting over Arunachal, when all of India was equally undeveloped.
Just because the BJP sucks, it doesn’t mean that China is right. That’s simplistic thinking.
The USA admin almost nuked india at that time. It doesn’t side with china out of hatred to the usa siding with pak. Pak is also a china ally now. It sides cause it wants to trade anyway.
Ok, now follow that thought to its logical conclusion: was free trade with China a big issue in 1962? No! Neither China nor India could barely even keep their people alive at that point, let alone do significant business! And China was still invading Arunachal back then too! So even trying to pin this on India’s tariffs/refusal to parttake in belt&road doesn’t make any sense.
“The USA admin almost nuked india at that time” Okay, now use that same clear-headed thinking towards the China issue: The world’s up-and-coming superpower wants to claim your province which feeds 600 million people in your country. Is that not comparable to getting nuked?
None of your arguments hold any water. Sangh/RSS didn’t exist in 1962. BJP didn’t exist in 1962. China trading with people wasn’t a thing in 1962. Belt and Road didn’t exist in 1962.
The end of story is that the Arunachal problem is ultimately China’s fault, even if India has given them some moral-high-ground ammo in the last few decades. China could easily resolve it peacefully if it really wanted to (I hope they do!)I’m Dravidian, eat beef, and pork, and hate the BJP but blaming everything on the Indian government means you don’t understand history. I personally find the Jaishankar fanboyism cringe also
He’s a member of BJP. Apart from that I don’t have a good picture of what he is like. But he did cringe shit like saying Oct 7 uprising was terrorism.
…unless they start WW3 in a fit of panic or to cover their crimes.
Yeah, but we know how starting a world war typically goes. And they don’t have the best track record for actually winning wars. Not that it wouldn’t be horrendous.
Damn when did all the nukes disappear?
