Should India assist the US in restoring its primacy in Asia or build a reformed and stable world order that would inevitably require cooperation with other great powers?
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What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.
The US is still an Imperium albeit weakened by its many misadventures beginning with Clinton’s resurrection of the Cold War with Yugoslavia, and followed through by Bush and Obama with Iraq, Syria, Libya and so on. India si a third rate power politically, economically, socially, technologically and militarily.. All that the US wants is to sell weapons to India and use India for cannon fodder vis a vis China. I said this long ago when India was letting dare not wait upon I would to sign the defense co-operation agreements. As we can see clealry since the Second World War, the US does not treat any satellite as an equal. They are subordinates. While Clinton could refuse logistics facilities to Britain during the Falklands war, Britain dare not refuse the US anything. Not even escape from prosecution for crimes committed by Americans on British soil. US soldiers, sailors and airmen get away routinely, with raping Japanese girls in Japan. India is in the same position as Rhodes after the break up of Alexander’s Empire into Ptolemies, Antigonists and Seleucids. Too weak to be Neuitral due its own suicidal Colonial-Communist Quota (Reservations / License) and Corruption (Extortion / Percentage) Policies since 1947 . Its “Independence” is precarious and it is in danger of falling under Pax Americana if it has not done so already. after having enjoyed a brief period of dubious freedom from Pax Britannica. By not triangulation with Russia and Iran, India may have no alternative bu the Join the US-NATO-Sunni Axis (founded with Petro Dollars by Nixon, Kissinger and Bush in 1970) to avoid capitulation to China,
Looks like a Chinese mouthpiece. Self-deprecating views about India. This is the exactly the approach that held back India in the last 75 years. Author is proposing a hibernation for another 75 years so Pakistan has enough time to overtake India’s capabilities. Looks like a sermon from Tukde Tukde Gang.
Brilliant commentary on the Indo-US equation. The relationship for the US is more about how India’ can be leveraged to serve US interests in the region and military cooperation (read big defence market) underpins the strategic element. India on the other hand must look at this relationship more realisrically and not allow the US to make us believe that these periodic broadsides are only about Trump.
India could well end up between a rock and a hard place in the Indian Ocean where it is pretty much in its own and would do well to consolidate itself there.
With so much feedback coming from so many quarters and sources, this would be a good time to put the diplomats back in charge of foreign policy formulation.
One must sometimes be cruel to be kind. We are not in America’s league, nor in China’s. A strong dose of realism is what Indian foreign policy requires. Setting our ambitions at a level that is supported by our capabilities.
1. With every country, relationships are made of converges and divergences and they are also highly nuanced. Take Russia or China or UK for that matter and it will be clear that with USA, we do not have any special complications which are absent with these two other countries. 2. Whether it furthers US strategic agenda or not, it is India which primarily needs USA (along with Japan, Australia etc as well) to take on China in IOR (forget Indo Pacific for a moment) while for land border issues with China or Pakistan, it is India which primarily needs Russian defense equipment. Hence, by aligning with USA, we are primarily serving our interests. 3. Against Pak, USA will not be much use due to its issues in Afghanistan. USA is interested in Pakistan at least till its entanglement in Afghanistan ends. 4. FATF black listing or nor, even India will not be seriously interested in disorder in Pakistan as it will be a dangerous for our security. Pakistan with its nuclear capacity, can do any damage to India, if its survival is at stake, not only due to a skirmish or war with India but even otherwise. So Pakistan ought to be finished in a slow and orderly manner bit by bit and it will eventually happen due to its internal fallacies. 5. USA is talking Kashmir as it has to please Pakistan as of now. Even if we take this seriously, what is going to happen if Trump mediates? What are parameters on which he can do this? If UN Security Council could not solve this question for last 70 years, what are the chances of Trump doing it? One hardly needs to spend time to answer this question! 6. Can USA India relationship be without frictions? Never. Of course, USA is more keen on selling its wares to us than the technology but France or Russia are doing the same, may be with some difference. After all, no one will help you build up your strategic defense capability. Hence, India is shopping from France, Russia, USA and elsewhere and also building up its own capability. The pace and the efficiency with which we are doing is this of course not up to expectations but the direction is clear.
Thus, let Trump molly coddle Imran but India knows what it wants from USA and also from others and that clarity is evident in the policy followed by Modi. Another 10 years of purposeful work by DRDO, and we will be in a different level with China and Pakistan. Media should in fact welcome Trump’s offer of mediation and stump him to spell out what he has in mind, if at all he knows what is he talking about! Perhaps, Modi might have sold him the idea of helping in Afghanistan with Indian forces in return for support to take over POK and break Pakistan China physical nexus. This may be Trump’s idea of solution to the Kashmir issue! And even Russia will fall for this. And Afghan will of course welcome this wholeheartedly.
So Zorawer, hold on- there is lot of water to flow down the Indus, Chenab and Ravi!
The US is still an Imperium albeit weakened by its many misadventures beginning with Clinton’s resurrection of the Cold War with Yugoslavia, and followed through by Bush and Obama with Iraq, Syria, Libya and so on. India si a third rate power politically, economically, socially, technologically and militarily.. All that the US wants is to sell weapons to India and use India for cannon fodder vis a vis China. I said this long ago when India was letting dare not wait upon I would to sign the defense co-operation agreements. As we can see clealry since the Second World War, the US does not treat any satellite as an equal. They are subordinates. While Clinton could refuse logistics facilities to Britain during the Falklands war, Britain dare not refuse the US anything. Not even escape from prosecution for crimes committed by Americans on British soil. US soldiers, sailors and airmen get away routinely, with raping Japanese girls in Japan. India is in the same position as Rhodes after the break up of Alexander’s Empire into Ptolemies, Antigonists and Seleucids. Too weak to be Neuitral due its own suicidal Colonial-Communist Quota (Reservations / License) and Corruption (Extortion / Percentage) Policies since 1947 . Its “Independence” is precarious and it is in danger of falling under Pax Americana if it has not done so already. after having enjoyed a brief period of dubious freedom from Pax Britannica. By not triangulation with Russia and Iran, India may have no alternative bu the Join the US-NATO-Sunni Axis (founded with Petro Dollars by Nixon, Kissinger and Bush in 1970) to avoid capitulation to China,
Looks like a Chinese mouthpiece. Self-deprecating views about India. This is the exactly the approach that held back India in the last 75 years. Author is proposing a hibernation for another 75 years so Pakistan has enough time to overtake India’s capabilities. Looks like a sermon from Tukde Tukde Gang.
Nice assessment of the complexities in Indo-US relationships!
Brilliant commentary on the Indo-US equation. The relationship for the US is more about how India’ can be leveraged to serve US interests in the region and military cooperation (read big defence market) underpins the strategic element. India on the other hand must look at this relationship more realisrically and not allow the US to make us believe that these periodic broadsides are only about Trump.
India could well end up between a rock and a hard place in the Indian Ocean where it is pretty much in its own and would do well to consolidate itself there.
With so much feedback coming from so many quarters and sources, this would be a good time to put the diplomats back in charge of foreign policy formulation.
One must sometimes be cruel to be kind. We are not in America’s league, nor in China’s. A strong dose of realism is what Indian foreign policy requires. Setting our ambitions at a level that is supported by our capabilities.
1. With every country, relationships are made of converges and divergences and they are also highly nuanced. Take Russia or China or UK for that matter and it will be clear that with USA, we do not have any special complications which are absent with these two other countries. 2. Whether it furthers US strategic agenda or not, it is India which primarily needs USA (along with Japan, Australia etc as well) to take on China in IOR (forget Indo Pacific for a moment) while for land border issues with China or Pakistan, it is India which primarily needs Russian defense equipment. Hence, by aligning with USA, we are primarily serving our interests. 3. Against Pak, USA will not be much use due to its issues in Afghanistan. USA is interested in Pakistan at least till its entanglement in Afghanistan ends. 4. FATF black listing or nor, even India will not be seriously interested in disorder in Pakistan as it will be a dangerous for our security. Pakistan with its nuclear capacity, can do any damage to India, if its survival is at stake, not only due to a skirmish or war with India but even otherwise. So Pakistan ought to be finished in a slow and orderly manner bit by bit and it will eventually happen due to its internal fallacies. 5. USA is talking Kashmir as it has to please Pakistan as of now. Even if we take this seriously, what is going to happen if Trump mediates? What are parameters on which he can do this? If UN Security Council could not solve this question for last 70 years, what are the chances of Trump doing it? One hardly needs to spend time to answer this question! 6. Can USA India relationship be without frictions? Never. Of course, USA is more keen on selling its wares to us than the technology but France or Russia are doing the same, may be with some difference. After all, no one will help you build up your strategic defense capability. Hence, India is shopping from France, Russia, USA and elsewhere and also building up its own capability. The pace and the efficiency with which we are doing is this of course not up to expectations but the direction is clear.
Thus, let Trump molly coddle Imran but India knows what it wants from USA and also from others and that clarity is evident in the policy followed by Modi. Another 10 years of purposeful work by DRDO, and we will be in a different level with China and Pakistan. Media should in fact welcome Trump’s offer of mediation and stump him to spell out what he has in mind, if at all he knows what is he talking about! Perhaps, Modi might have sold him the idea of helping in Afghanistan with Indian forces in return for support to take over POK and break Pakistan China physical nexus. This may be Trump’s idea of solution to the Kashmir issue! And even Russia will fall for this. And Afghan will of course welcome this wholeheartedly.
So Zorawer, hold on- there is lot of water to flow down the Indus, Chenab and Ravi!