India is now saying that the USA State Department is targeting India. In other words, the USA probably realized it has lost its confidence in using India as a counter to China and has to be thrown under the bus. Was the truce over the border crisis between China and India a factor that is giving the USA a sense of losing control of using India against China? More talks are ongoing between China and India over the border issue. Let us hope the USA does not resort to underhand tactics like using a false flag operation to sabotage the unfolding peace.
The years of touting India's ambition to be the next superpower and factory of the world probably contributed to the change of heart by the USA over placing too much trust in India. The USA can never tolerate any country trying to upend its hegemony. Not even close allies like Germany and Japan. India made the silly mistake of arousing the suspicion of the USA and is going to pay the price.
India must make up its mind choosing its loyalty towards either BRICS or the USA under QUAD, which is all about confronting China.
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Let them continue to flirt. Someone is going to get thrown under the bus when its usefulness is no longer material. The USA does not value friendship nor allies, only interest.
ReplyDeleteCountries that flirted with the USA are like following the 'praying mantis mating ritual', with the smaller male getting eaten alive after serving its purpose. But it seems like such natural phenomenon also extended to countries looking for trouble, like the Philippines. Nothing also more apparent than the Europeans serving as collateral damage over sanctions on Russia, backfiring on the EU alone. The EU could have enjoyed its continued prosperity with even cheaper Russian energy with the Nord Stream 2 in operation. But they choose to sacrifice themselves for the USA's interest.
ReplyDeleteToday, the USA and the West are not happy about Russia and North Korea having good relations, the latter two knowing they are now under threat. What is wrong with that? The USA, Europeans, Israel, Canada and Australia are doing the exact same thing, closing ranks using China as an imaginary threat. There are even innuendos on MSA and social media suggesting that Russia is angering China or vice versa. The West wants to throw spanners into the relationship between Russia and China, so that dividing them makes it easier for the USA to topple either one of them first.
China must never be lulled into a false sense of comfort because of Trump's false chummy behavior, by even inviting Xi to attend his inauguration. USA leaders are just clowns with painted faces. You never see their real faces until it is too late.
Countries must remember the saying - There are no permanent friends, only permanent enemies. All that talk about 'iron-clad' relations are just loose talk that will never be taken into consideration when the shit hits the fan.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, it does not come any clearer that such friendship could even be just a four-year tenure in the case of the USA, with a new leader having different values and agenda. China is still honoring its decades old promise to help Africa, which is still as relevant today as the day that Chou En-Lai first visited Africa in 1963. China's friendship with Africa endures through thick and thin, unlike some sunny day friendships practiced by some countries that only exploit others for self-gain using fake friendship as bait.
Argentina's sunny day friendship under Javir Milei takes the cake, moving like a yo-yo back and forth.
DeleteRidiculously boastful India is very jealous of China . . .
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