Superpower India capitulates under Trump pressure

When the Americans imposed the mother of all sanctions against Russia for attacking Ukraine, India was happily buying cheap Russia oil at a steep discount. In the process India made billions by reselling Russian oil to the European buyers and incurring the wrath of Trump. India came under immediate attack by the Americans for violating the oil sanction. India did not budge. India's world best Minister for External Affairs, Jaishankar, defended India's position confidently and eloquently in front of American and western leaders, even making them looked foolish. He went on to say India would buy oil from any country in the interests of India. Period.

The clumsy Americans were not able to out talk Jaishankar. This led to the imposition of another 25% tariff against India on all Indian products. For a few months, India was steadfast and held on its position to continue to buy cheap Russian oil. India as a superpower or superpower to be in the same league as America and China, would not be bullied by the Americans. Caving in to American pressure would be hard to swallow for Modi and the Indians. Apparently serious negotiations were in progress to remove or reduce the tariffs.

Just a few days back, Trump and Modi sprang a surprise by coming to a great deal. India will stop buying Russian oil and buy Venezuelan oil from America instead. In return, Trump agreed to withdraw the 25% additional tariff imposed on Indian goods. Washington also made clear that the withdrawal of the additional tariff came with conditions and will monitor what India will do, whether India will completely cut off buying Russian oil. Washington warned India, no direct or indirect buying of Russian oil.

India has been quiet about this, without an official statement to stop buying Russian oil. Is Trump bluffing or India lying? If a superpower like India will be forced by the Americans to stop buying Russian oil, India will not look good in the eyes of the Global South. India is the one and only BRICS member to capitulate to the Americans. This in a way will offend Putin for sure. Jaishankar has gone into hiding, not saying a word about this deal. By now he must have realised that his clever talks mean nothing to the Americans.

Did superpower India really cave in to Trump? Looks like Modi will be invited to the White House again to meet his good friend Trump for more photo ops, more hugging and kissing in front of the media. The bromance between Modi and Trump will move to 2.0. Would India also agree to oppose BRICS' dedollarisation plan again as part of the deal? Can BRICS or Putin trust Modi? It seems that Trump has successfully deflated the Indian arrogance and smart talks by Jaishankar.

What do you think? Is India confirming that it is the weak link in BRICS? What are the other conditions Trump dictated to India and what role will India now play in BRICS?

The White House is a very interesting place

 The White House was once a decent place for peanut farmers and Hollywood actors. But this gradually changed when D graders started to move in. Then it turned into a hospice for the aged and undead. Then came the liars, cheats, conmen, felons and the paedophiles. The latest, the White House was supposed to be zoo, housing apes and monkeys.

No one seems to take much notice when it was associated with dull schoolhouse for dull kids.  No one mind if it was turned into a hospice, a halfway house for drug addicts. No one care when it was an asylum, housing lunatics. But when it was called a zoo, it started to ring a bell. Some senators and house representatives find it offensive, or pretend to be offended. Not many dare to utter the word racism. Not the black men and women. They were hoping for Trump to say it was a mistake, or any excuses. They just need something from Trump to drop the subject. But not Kamala. She is not the usual blacks or Afro Americans. She is black from India.

 The Indians are of a different level in intellects and pride. They have proven themselves that they are not dumb. They are the highest achievers of migrants, and a force to be reckoned with in Silicon Valley. And many are in the Who's Who List of corporate honchos. Kamala said it loud and clear. It is racism. What the Afro Americans fear to say, the Indian Americans would face it squarely and say it without the historical baggage of slavery.

The racist mask of Trump has been exposed. And he got the audacity to think that the blacks would not mind his caricature of Obama and wife as apes or monkeys. He is the POTUS and expects everyone to laugh at his racist pranks, or at least the white men.

Would this affect Trump's black voters? Not at all. They are all suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome. They really love Trump. The support for Trump from the Afro Americans will likely to grow as they would not associate themselves with the blacks. Many successful Afro Americans think they are white or at least half white with white blood in them.

This cute little prank of Trump will pass away in no time, just like I Can't Breathe George Floyd. The Afro Americans are a forgiving lot and have very short memories. They will believe, they want to believe, Trump is not racist, like all their white bros.

And Trump said he would not apologise. Why apologise to apes and monkeys? After all there will be no consequences to white men in white America when they killed, abused, bullied and insulted black men as a societal norm.

When the Americans cannot export their dollars

There is only so far that the USA can kick the can further down the road. At some point it has to pick it up and faced the consequences. By then the problem would be even more devastating to say the least.

The narrative that the USA can never default may be able to continue forever if the US$ hegemony is not being threatened, which will allow the USA to keep printing toilet papers to rip off the rest of the world. With manufacturing not rushing into the USA and already crippled by rising cost of raw materials due to tariffs, the USA still need to import vast quantities of goods, which is undeniable with its trade deficit setting records.

Now, the USA is even finding it difficult to keep exporting its inflation overseas, with countries not willing to keep buying its debt. BRICS countries are doing fine conducting trade outside the US$ and using their own currencies, just like China and Russia. If more countries join the de-dollarization bandwagon, what does that mean for the US$ going forward. Trump can threaten them with tariffs, but it is not working. All they have to do is refrain from exporting to the USA and divert to the Global South, where the market is countless times bigger than the USA.

Bear in mind that China is helping to develop countries in Africa, that will open up a very lucrative market for China and other BRICS countries to exploit. The world would not die because of the exclusion of the USA market.


Anonymous

Arabs and Muslims must remember the words of Martin Niemoller

Iran must never fall. The situation in the Middle East is skewed towards Israel lording over the Araba and Muslims. If the USA were to develop Gaza, with USA interests sunk into the country, do the Arabs and Muslims realize that the USA is setting up shop in the Middle East on the pretext of redeveloping the Gaza strip. Then the two evils will be able to dictate all they want without Iran left to counter.

The Arabs and Muslims must remember the words of Martin Niemoller if they do not do anything to look after their interest. Here again is the quote: First they came for the communists.
And I did not speak out.
Because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out.
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists.
And I did not speak out.
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews.
And I did not speak out.
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me.
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.

(Substitute the Jews for Iran and you see the picture clearer)


Anonymous

Peasants versus hillbillies in race for high tech supremacy

 The racists Americans, Trump, Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, Bannon and good friend Epstein, open mouth close mouth, will lash at Chinese peasants in a demeaning way. So I conveniently also open mouth close mouth lash at the hillbillies and the rednecks. These racists have been caught over and over again, behind closed doors or among themselves, ridiculing and insulting the Chinese peasants as second nature. No exceptions. Only the coloured Anglophiles will believe that these racists will speak good about them behind their backs, that they loved the coloured Anglophiles.

The race for tech supremacy has been taken for granted for a while with the Americans and the West leading in many fields from the start. When the West were playing with computers, China was still using abacus When the West came out with internet and email, China was still depending on typewriters and postmen. When the West was dominating the world with software and sexy apps, China was still learning to type in English.

The Chinese govt sent hundreds of thousands of their best 'peasants' to western universities, the best Ivy League Universities, to start learning English and then science and technology. That was about 40 years ago. Many 'peasants' excelled in their chosen fields of hard sciences and math. Some chose to stay in the USA, in the West. Some chose to return to serve their Motherland.

In the last 40 years, the Chinese peasants worked very hard to catch up with the West. In the same breath, the hillbillies remain as hillbillies, still playing with guns and gambling in the Wall Street casinos. Caveat, there were still many brilliant Americans that were tops in the field of high techs and keeping the flag flying. When it dawned on the Americans that the Chinese peasants were chasing the same rainbow and catching up rapidly, they started to slam the door shut. Many 'peasants' at the top of their cohorts in the US were attacked, discriminated and harassed, some jailed, some killed or died under suspicious circumstances. Huawei was banned, its CFO was arrested for dubious charges in Canada. 

Many 'peasants' returned home, bringing whatever they have learnt and more, to start a high tech industry in China from ground zero. Many sanctions and bans were thrown at them to stop them from progressing. But progress they did. China is now ahead of the Americans and the West in 24 of the 30 leading edge industries. In the highly contested semiconductor industry, China was thought to be 15 years behind. In the last 5 years, China had caught up and now at par with the Americans, neck to neck in manufacturing 2nm chips. The 'peasants' even developed their own version of EUV machine from scratch, and the new machines are more advanced than ASML's EUV.  Now the final race is who is going to be the first to produce 1nm chips.

The high end chip race could be the final race for the 'peasants' to outsmart the hillbillies. In the other fields, the hillbillies are struggling from behind to try to smell the farts of the 'peasants'. There is no contest. In space technology, the rundown ISS should have been mothballed a decade ago but still forced to hang up in space, waiting for tragedy to happen. China is in the final stages of landing on the moon and building a moon colony while the hillbillies are still scratching their heads about how to get there. They frantically went searching in the warehouse to look for their 1960s blueprints but all were gone...stolen by the 'peasants'? They even went to Hollywood to see if they can find any clues to reenact a moon landing in the Arizona Desert. 

The billbillies have decades of headstart in developing 6th Gen aircraft and electromagnetic catapults.  While the peasants are now flying their numerous versions of 6th Gen aircraft and going into full production, the American 6th Gen aircraft are still in the powerpoint stage. Same as the electromagnetic catapult system, still on trial in the Gerald Ford carrier while the 'peasants' have already put them in service in the Fujian carrier.

Finding that they have lost out in every field to the 'peasants', Hillbilly Chief, Trump, announced that since they can't win in the race to the future, they can go Back to the Future, to build giant battleships for yesterday's war.

Is there any field that the hillbillies are still ahead of the peasants? Yes, fabricating lies and fantasies. But one thing the hillbillies cannot fake or lie, no cash. They are still crawling to Beijing to ask the 'peasants' for cheap loans and handouts. Have the peasants won against the hillbillies? One thing for sure, the peasants are travelling all over the world spending like no tomorrow, while the hillbillies are still stuck in their little towns and wooden cabins, or waiting in line for free food.

Did hillbilly Vance pay for his family's visit to New Delhi, or the State paid for it? Who is going to have the last laugh?