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US-India Relations in a Downward Spiral

The ICC rulings do not apply to the US, Israel and their allies. And Boris Johnson openly talks about the West using Ukraine for a “proxy war” against Russia. These are some of the recent developments in the rules-based order of the global mafia led by the United States of America.
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There will be more such hypocrisy coming from the Empire of Lies, including an intense hybrid war against India. Unfortunately, many Indians are not aware of the new dynamics in the US-India relations. Let’s unpack the geopolitical machinations.
Last year, Biden tweeted that America’s relations with India will be the most consequential in this century. That was based on logic, since India would soon surpass Japan and Germany to become the third largest economy in the world. Plus, with China slowing down, India could become the engine that propels global growth for the next two decades. More importantly, from the US point of view, India could become the pole to counterbalance China, America’s peer competitor.

Killing the Golden Goose

However, the US empire shot itself in the foot right after the upbeat proclamation. Biden cancelled his trip India’s Republic Day parade; Indian billionaire and Prime Minister Modi’s friend, Gautam Adani, became the target of numerous attacks from agents in the US; and the Five Eyes countries – vassals of the US – started accusing Modi’s inner circle (Amit Shah and Ajit Doval) of orchestrating assassinations of Sikh separatists; and the US openly staged a color revolution in Bangladesh to remove Prime Minister Hasina, a friend of India.
Worse, the Empire’s agents did not even try to hide their agenda. Just like Biden threatened to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline in early 2022, the US ambassador to India told Indians that “there is no such thing as strategic autonomy.” The message was clear: You are either at the table or on the menu. And Americans have placed India on the menu.
Gautam Adani speaks during the inauguration of Vibrant Gujarat Global Investor summit in Gandhinagar, India
An objective analysis would categorize these massive geopolitical blunders. Perhaps the US is fantasizing about a more pro-US government in India after Modi’s third term, but there is no reason to antagonize the current administration for the next five years. That’s a long enough time frame for significantly realigning its geopolitical objectives. India could embrace Russia, China and BRICS so much over the next five years that the US-India relations could be irreparably damaged.

No Turning Back

Imagine the following events during Modi’s current term:
Indian military forming deeper relations with Russia. More joint developments of missiles, fighter jets, submarines etc.
More trade with Russia and improvisation of trade routes – Chennai-Vladivostok and the INSTC route, the latter also strengthening India-Iran ties. India’s economy becomes deeply connected to Russia.
India-China trade blossoms; China builds more factories in India, transfers some technology, and captures the consumer market of the booming middle-class. Chinese tech companies challenge the monopolies of Google, Facebook/WhatsApp, Amazon, Walmart, Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft etc. Finally, India and China resolve their border issues and end all conflicts.
BRICS expands rapidly, enabling India to ditch the US dollar in a significant portion of its international trade.
India’s billionaires start to fund think tanks, enabling alternative viewpoints to dominate the mainstream narratives. US influence in Indian media starts to evaporate.
If such dramatic and possible events take place over the next five years, then it does not matter how friendly the new administration will be. The strategic policies will be irreversible.
Furthermore, if the US empire tries to bully India by turning Bangladesh into a bulwark against India – sort of like Ukraine against Russia – then the nationalist fervor in India will strike back. Right now, many Indians blame individual Western actors in the geopolitical conflict – such as George Soros, BBC or Justin Trudeau. However, once the nation’s security interests are threatened, then there will be a wave of anti-American sentiments unseen before. At that stage, it does not matter how many Indian Americans are successful or how much market share CNN has in India.
President Joe Biden speaks with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and American and Indian business leaders in the East Room of the White House, Friday, June 23, 2023, in Washington.

Rotten Playbook

The problem with America is that it is run by the mafia, a geopolitical mafia. The cabal has no morals and no self-control. End justifies the means. They do whatever it takes to maintain their power. The bigger problem is that they are not very intelligent or creative. Their playbook has a few strategies, which keep getting recycled.
This lack of innovation is why their color revolutions have been failing a lot recently – such as in Hong Kong, Thailand, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Georgia etc. Although, they did succeed in Bangladesh, because the government did not have the courage to ban the saboteurs like NED/NDI.
The American mafioso is also used to hypocrisy and blatant lying, since other countries had been silent for a long time. This is why the US could lie about the non-existent WMD in Iraq or the fake chemical attacks in Syria (to start a regime-change war against President Assad, a wonderful leader). However, those days of deceptions are coming to an end. Russian media, Chinese media, independent journalists in the global south, and even some brave Americans (like Scott Ritter) are debunking American lies and challenging the mainstream “presstitutes.”
Even in the realm of military, the US-EU influences are waning. African countries like Chad, Senegal and Niger are also freeing themselves from the French/Western colonialism after being subjugated for several decades. The Houthis are bravely attacking American warships and downing expensive American drones. Hezbollah forced Israel to sign a ceasefire, even though many top resistance leaders were assassinated by the Mossad.
Of course, how Russia has been defeating the entire NATO is the most striking phenomenon that heralds the end of American military supremacy. The recent introduction of Orshenik, the new hypersonic Russian missile, must have shocked the American mafiosos. As President Putin mentioned, the Orshenik is like a meteorite striking the earth. No need for nuclear bombs to flatten London. A 20-minute flight by the unstoppable Orshenik – meaning, hazelnuts – will bring sense to the globalist puppets who are still dreaming about the long-gone British Empire.
In the eastern part of Asia, the manufacturing powerhouse – i.e., China – is not afraid of another Century of Humiliation. The Chinese can produce more missiles and drones in a day than the US can do in a month. More fascinatingly, Americans cannot make a single missile or fighter jet without Chinese components. The old playbook of proxy war against China – with the vassals like the Philippines or Japan – is becoming less probable every day. The Philippines is just one election away from rejecting the American subversion.

Conclusion

So, what should India do?
First, embrace strategic autonomy, BRICS and the concept of a multipolar world. The future is written and the cycles of history cannot be altered. The end of the Western domination and the American Century are just around the corner. Of course, this does not mean openly antagonizing the US, but drawing a clear line on the sand about US demands. India’s future rests with close partnership with Russia and a pragmatic, win-win relationship with China, even if some geopolitical struggle exists regarding spheres of influence.
Second, decouple from US technology. Right now, US tech firms enjoy exorbitant market shares in India, and this has led to widespread spying by the American deep state – evidenced by the details of the US indictment against Adani. Indians should stop aspiring to be CEOs of American companies, and instead create equivalents – just like how China developed Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance, Huawei etc.
The US could have been a good partner of India, but opted to ruin the opportunity for a fruitful and long-term partnership. If the USA blundered by pushing China and Russia closer, the monumental faux pas was to add India to the Eurasian coalition.
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