India is just like a stray dog, running around trying to find a place to hang on. Even BRICS is trying to find an excuse to kick the stray dog out. QUAD appears to be doing the same. But this stray dog likes to pretend it has class by refusing to join the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) initiated by China. India is just eyeing joining the G7 to show it has arrived and will be sitting together with the so-called economic elites.
Will the G7 lowers itself to be ridiculed by BRICS with India's entry into its ranks? How could India, with its third world infrastructure, ninety percent of its people living with sub-Saharan living standards ever bring credit to the G7 elitist thinking. I leave that to you.
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It is perhaps God's will that Russia did not remain in G7 or G8. Otherwise, there would not be any Ukraine War and NATO vis a vis USA would now be fighting a war instead against China. With Russia on the side of NATO as still being a member of G8, that would have been even more detrimental for China and China's dependent on Russian energy. Heaven his eyes indeed that Russia and China are watching each other's back today.
Pushing Russia towards China was a massive geopolitical mistake for the USA and NATO. And it was all a hasty act to punish Russia involving the Crimea issue by kicking Russia out of G8. Perhaps the biggest irony is that Trump could be right this time with his take that it was a mistake to kick out Russia from the G8.
Now Russia and China are helping each other against the USA and Europe. China buys energy from Russia, helping its war economy, while Russia benefitted from investments by China moving into areas vacated by the West. And to add insult to injury, all these trade and investments are being done outside the US$, with de-dollarization being the agenda. Karma works in mysterious ways, or should I say God's justice works in mysterious ways.
Russia and China have cemented their ties, with Russia's energy now flowing to the East, particularly to China and India which is going to be a permanent feature with the latter two countries needing massive cheap energy to fuel their industrial growth. With Middle East tensions flaring now and then, Russia is providing some semblance of energy reliability for China.
If the USA attacks Iran, it will close off the 'Straits of Hormuz' and Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and United Arab Emirates will face economic disaster without the ability to export their oil. That is going to send oil prices into the twilight zone.
Trump is now demanding Iran's 'unconditional surrender' and threatens to assassinate Iran's leader. Gloating about killing a sovereign country's leader openly is unbecoming of a leader and is an act of an uncivilized being, not to mention he is supposed to be a leader setting an example for the world to look up to. Trump should also demand for the unconditional surrender of the Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas to make life easier and better for the Israelis. Trump is realistically facing pressure from the Israeli lobby in the USA to enter the war, knowing that Israel is facing a dire situation by underestimating the resolve of the Iranians in retaliation.
Grandstanding by Trump achieves nothing, like gloating about China needing to kiss his arse. Even his own countrymen are looking at him as no more than a clown. His birthday cum military parade was a disaster with meagre crowds compared to the huge protests erupting all around the country. That birthday bash was estimated to have cost taxpayers as much as US$45 million to stage, according to some sources. And the Hillbillies were known to have laughed at military parades in Russia and North Korea honoring dictators. Well, who laugh last laugh best.
Some points are off topic, so my apologies if I offended anyone.
Beside stray dog, am sure our millionaire Loong would love to be sitting along side the G7 & put above it weight. Or maybe to ask O-u tang & principled one to tag along to serve kopi & teh tarik.
At the G7 meeting I do not see Modi sitting at the table. Where was he? Under the table, LOL.
Invited to be humiliated.
Bleaching to be whiter might help!
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