Two snakes in love or in battle?

Many are saying that the USA is using, coaxing and dangling incentives in front of India big time, to cultivate India as a counterweight to Russia and China, and maybe sabotaging BRICS and SCO as well. And India will be discarded by the USA as collateral damage, after all this is over with Russia and China. What the USA did to the EU is exactly what the USA will do to India.
The USA is now so good to India, like conjoin twins, not even dictating issues about the fate of the Muslims in India, embracing each other like snakes on heat. USA's love of Muslims can be switched on and off when it matters to its interest.

Over time, India will be sacrificed like the EU. If Modi is being bought over, and India breaks with Russia over military hardware deals and energy, and follows the USA's dictate like the EU, India will go back to the bullock cart age. India cannot survive on expensive energy. That alone will be a big problem for India to overcome, knowing that India is pivoting to a manufacturing economy in a big way, luring investments to India to provide the jobs, and be less dependent on agriculture. Energy is going to be a big deal in such a move. And only Russia can provide cheap energy to India, and no one else is willing to do that.

The most reassuring part, nevertheless, is discreetly knowing that Modi is just playing both sides, and will unlikely part ways with the Russians in both military and energy requirements. It is too costly and unwise to antagonise the Russians, and will completely isolate India in Asia, just like the Japanese today. Not being in the BRI, India would just be watching surrounding countries improving their economy, and trading with ease with each other using the BRI connections.

India is trying very hard to emulate China by becoming the 'Factory of the World' and one important ingredient for that to happen is cheap energy. Investors have to consider that carefully before plumping big money into building factories in India. If they see India's energy supplies from Russia unreliable in the long term, would they want to invest in India? Of course some will do that, that is why they say 'fools rush in where wise men (angels) fear to tread'.

What took China about three to four decades to reach its 'Factory of the World' status is already phenomenal. For India, taking three to four decades to reach its goal like China is a very very difficult task, knowing that the system in India is not conducive to developments smoothly and speedily.

Anonymous

Prigozhin has said all he needs to say

In his words, he was not out to topple the leadership in Russia. In other words taking down Putin was not his motive. He specifically said that the mutiny was against some leaders in the Russian Military to bring issues between them up to the top leadership. In any case leading mutineers right up to Mosocow to face the Russian Military in full force is not a wise move.

The other telling remark he made was why did he apologise for the downing of the Russian helicopters that resulted in the death of 13 of the crew. Now, would someone leading a mutiny apologise for taking down military hardware of the other side? I believe it was an accidental mistake.

Again, is Putin the kind of leader who would pardon someone leading a mutiny so easily? That is a big giveaway. Many are now guessing that this was a ruse to move Prigozhin to Belarus and the mutiny was staged in order not to alarm Nato and let them believe things are happening in their favour and give them a false sense of hope that Putin is losing control.

Moreover, Nato must now have found something amiss by calling on the grouping to increase security 'now that Prigozhin is in Belarus'. Why such a call by Nato? And the full absorption of the Wagner mercenaries into the Russian army is going to give the USA/Nato and Ukraine more to worry about than a celebration. These are mercenaries being inducted into the Russian army, whose professionalism is never in doubt.

Anonymous

US India relations - Opportunity to redeem depopulation of Indians in America

 Over a few centuries of systematic genocide of the native Indian population, it was reported by American sources that at least 100m native Indians were terminated by the white invaders that now called America their homeland. Barely 2m native Indians are alive today. This is the triumph of evil racists Europeans that took the ultimate solution to their occupation problem. Wiped out the native Indians for the good of their posterity. The ability of native Indians creating problems for the white men was decisively eliminated through a government led genocide programme that put the pogram in Europe to shame, like child play.

The Euorpean missions led by Columbus went West to find India and Indians. They found America and a different colour Indians, Red Indians. Not sure if it is the wrong colour. Would the white Europeans terminate the Indians if they were black instead of red?

Anyway, today the real Indians have arrived in the USA and receiving a warmth welcome from Biden. It may be 500 years late, but the white Americans finally found the Indians they wanted. Modi was embraced like a long lost brother returning from the cold. Indian American relations is glowing, like the best thing to have happened to the USA. They finally discovered the real Indians there were looking for. Maybe the Americans should make amends, redeem themselves for massacring the wrong Indians that they did not expect to find. Their longing to meet the real Indians have been fulfilled.

To redeem themselves and to show how they love the Indians, Biden should put up a bill in Congress to welcome 100m Indians from India as citizens to make up for the slaughter of 100m native Red Indians. This could somewhat allay the sins of their past. Let the Indians return to the land of the Red Indians so that America would have the Indians it should have if not of the genocide. The Indian population needs a boost. And it is good for both the USA and India. India would solve its unemployment problem. The Americans would be able to raise its population to grow the economy and to minimise their century of guilt against the Red Indians.

With the return of the 'Indians', the Americans could brag about how kind they were to reintroduce the Indians back into their native land, a repopulation programme. They can also shout, "We found it".  This is a big step forward in the name of human rights. After terminating the Indians to near extinction, they are taking steps to protect and breed the Indians to become the rightful owners of the land again. There will be Indians everywhere, Indians in Hollywood, in the military, Indians in Congress and the White House.

The world wild life organisation for the protection of extinct animals need not step in to protect the disappearing native Indians from the continent of America anymore. They don't have to blame the white men for their failed effort to protect the native Indians from extinction in the chosen barren reservations, selected to keep the native Indians alive and to procreate in the wild.

If the reintroduction of Indians into America programme is successful, it is something to celebrate for the kindness of the white men, for saving the Indians from extinction. 

What do you think, Americans?

Wagner rebellion - Americans bragging that they knew before it started. Putin did not.

How is it possible that the USA knew about the move by Prigozhin days before it happened as reported, and that Putin was in the dark twiddling his thumb and taking no action as they claimed? USA may have informants within the Wagner Goup, so does Putin. Moreover, there were still a large section of the Group that did not participate in the mutiny. They do not know about it? No one reported to Putin?

Yet, even before the Wagner Group attempted to march to Moscow, the Russian military was already surrounding Moscow and the Chechen fighters were already forming a reception party for Prigozhin.

There is a possiblity that Prigozhin, Putin and Lukashenko were performing a Russia Boshoi Ballet to entertain the Western Leaders and MSM, while perfecting their plan to move the Wagner Group to the north, nearer to Kyiv without raising any suspicion. If Russia move Prigozhin without reason to Belarus, it will surely raise alarm in the West. With tactical nuclear weapons now in Belarus and with Prigozhin having his base in Belarus, Putin may be orchestrating a move to end it once and for all.

Let us move back to the start of the Ukraine War. Russia moved troops to surround Kyiv, giving the impression that Putin's target was Kyiv, and the USA/Nato and Ukraine took the bait by fortifying defences and troops around Kyiv, while the Russian troops remain at bay surrounding the capital. Behind the stagnant move around Kyiv, the Russians attacked with full force the Ukrainian troops in the Donbass region and later took control. Ukrainian troops in Kyiv were unable to reinforce their fighters with more manpower, ammunition and even food in Donbass and the Russian took advantage. The Russians later just withdrew from surrounding Kyiv, and the Ukrainians started claiming Russia's defeat sorts. Was that a master stroke by Putin? But it was a ruse which the USA/Nato and Ukraine fell for. Of course the USA/Nato and MSM never wants to talk about it as it puts their intelligence in doubt.

 Anonymous 

Insane Tech war against the biggest consumer market

Not to be forgotten is the latest technology war now being waged against China. The whole Anglo Saxon White clique had been forced to follow the USA in its attempt to stifle China, using technology sanctions to bring China down. Or so they think.
China is hitting back, prioritising its technology sector development with huge investments in R & D. With its 'Factory of the World' reputation, backed by highly trained workers, irreplaceable supply chains, unparrelled infrastructures, and its huge market demand for finished products, China is not that easy to be depressed. Even Apple's investments in India still needs the downstream supply chain materials shipped over to them from China. India still lacks the supporting supply chains to cater to Apple's manufacturing needs in India.

Now some of the Anglo Saxon Whites, that followed the USA, are having second thoughts about following the technology sanctions, knowing that one day China will eventually make them loose their rice bowl if they are not careful. The China market alone is enough to tell them that it is not wise to break that rice bowl. Will the USA come to help them out if they loose the Chinese market for good? I would not bet on it!

China is now using the same tactic used by the USA, citing national security issues in its targeting of Western companies in China, like Micron. Yet Micron is investing more money in China. Micron knows the Chinese market cannot be abandoned completely, knowing that half a loaf is better than no bread.

High end chip manufacturers like TSMC and Samsung have been lured or conned to be more precise, to set up chip manufacturing facilities in the USA in ernest, to reap the USA dangled subsidies, that have now turned into dust for them. TSMC already invested more than US$40 billion in Arizona, without having received a single cent received in subsidies from the USA Government, on top of encountering all the problems of working attitudes of USA workers, that were in no mood to follow the hardworking attitude of the Taiwanese workers having to follow rotating shifts round the clock.

All in all, TSMC was set to be given a subsidy of US$15 billion (?), but with very abnoxious conditions, including revealing production load, client's orders and even releasing sensitive information on production techniques to the USA Government, on top of the USA Government having a cut of excess profits. It was no more than blackmailing TSMC to pass on its high end chip expertise to the USA and paying back the subsidies.

TSMC has now been reported to have declined applying for the subsidies and thinking of moving its main production facilities back to mainland China. That is bad news for the USA. But before that turning around was revealed, there was a report of a fire in the new TSMC facilities in Arizona, probably sabotage, knowing that since the USA failed to get at the necessary technology transfer by TSMC, using terrorism tactic as reprisal could have been the motive.

This is a lesson for others. And this is a lesson for Apple now intending to do its main manufacturing in India. Apple might even lose its foothold in China totally, and with it its huge market share in China. Chinese people are said to be losing their appetite for expensive iPhones and pivoting to Chinese phones over the years.

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