Lussy

I feel like even in the midst of war, Iran is randomly dabbing on Japan

West always like: ‘We get: your undying geopolitical alliance and exit from BRICS while we undermine and ostracize you at every turn

You get: a couple of call centers and the ability to free yourself from historic allies and most important trade partners.

I truly don’t understand why that didn’t work, everyone told me India has always been best buds with the US

I truly appreciate you being so self-reflective.

India’s resources and industrial commodities are disproportionately tied to Russia in comparison to any other country. For example, it imports as much oil from Russia as it does from OPEC and US combined. To emphasize this point, India is the second largest importer of petrol (probably the highest importer of energy products by far); energy scarcity is a huge problem for them. Indian steel as another example has been hurt by Trump’s tariffs, but turning on Russia would mean literally killing their steel industry altogether just to have the chance to regain the 25% or whatever it lost from trade with the US.

Yes, India exports the most to the US but there is no shortage of markets wanting to import low cost goods and customer support. Harming Russia would not be in their interest at all. There also the question of historical ties with Russia that are much stronger than any relationship with the US.

India’s place in global geopolitics is complex and unfortunately, Modi, a fascist demon, has not particularly veered the country towards western alliances and if anything has done more to deepen ties with China and Russia than previous PMs in the past 30 years.

What confuses me most is people deciding against being born into the most influential political dynasty in American History?

So fucking weird

Are you being sarcastic? I commend you if you’re not but if you are I can discuss this with you in more detail.

As in do something performative that attacks some aspect of Russian revenue in order to get the US to reduce tariffs.

Russia is India’s most important trading partner, and this has remained true for nearly a century. They simply cannot afford to ‘hurt’ Russian revenue even if they wanted to.

Honestly, this

constant kowtowing to the USA, and clear recalcitrance towards anything meaningfully anti-imperial.

is a western fever dream that isn’t backed by anything

Is this based on any semblance of reality or just racism?

‘Punish’ Russia wtf are you talking about

How is this meaningfully different from a formal annexation? For all intents and purposes Gaza has been annexed.

Why would future prole gens do it to us?

10 years after the genocide of all Palestinians has been widely accepted as a tragedy that did in fact occur, Germany will begin atoning for their support of Israel and 50 years later they will support the genocide of Jews out of guilt.

Most liberal state

Modi is hardly any more of a genocider than Trump or Putin, in which case sure make that concession

There is nothing left about mtg stop