Gabuev’s piece plays to the wishful thinking fantasies of his targeted Western audience, but the fact is that his analysis is fundamentally flawed because it completely ignores India’s decisive role in helping Russia preemptively avert the same disproportionate dependence on China that he already takes for granted.
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) article by Alexander Gabuev is an example of a proud American tradition: Disinformation disguised as analysis.
Gabuev sheds crocodile tears about Russia's sovereignty in order to malign China, who is America's official enemy numero uno. In the process, the CFR/Gabuev hopes to sow division between Russia and China by fomenting resentment in the former against the latter.
Imperial Divide and Conquer stratagems are a pathological feature of the American Empire and its ruling class institutions like the CFR.
Indeed, as a leading US geostrategist, Zbigniew Brzezinski, once admitted in his book _The Grand Chessboard_, “The three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.”
America thus must maintain security dependence among its vassals (like Europe, Japan, South Korea), keep its perceived tributaries like India pliant and protected, and keep the barbarians (Russia, China, Iran) from coming together,
What the Americans don't realize is that India is playing its own geopolitical game. Much like Turkey, India is playing the USA-led unipolar bloc and the Eurasian (Russia-China) multipolar bloc against each other.
India seeks to extract concessions from both of these blocs, while feigning interest and commonality with each of them--when in fact India is only interested in advancing its Hindutva fascist vision of Akhand Bharat, which calls for a Hindu Empire ruling over all the lands from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Bangladesh to Nepal and beyond.
In fact, some Indian regime leaders are openly admitting this Akhand Bharat ambition.
Scrapping of Article 370 was step towards achieving dream of Akhand Bharat: Fadnavis
Nobody in American State seems to get it.
The ants can always overwehelm the elephant.
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) article by Alexander Gabuev is an example of a proud American tradition: Disinformation disguised as analysis.
Gabuev sheds crocodile tears about Russia's sovereignty in order to malign China, who is America's official enemy numero uno. In the process, the CFR/Gabuev hopes to sow division between Russia and China by fomenting resentment in the former against the latter.
Imperial Divide and Conquer stratagems are a pathological feature of the American Empire and its ruling class institutions like the CFR.
Indeed, as a leading US geostrategist, Zbigniew Brzezinski, once admitted in his book _The Grand Chessboard_, “The three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.”
America thus must maintain security dependence among its vassals (like Europe, Japan, South Korea), keep its perceived tributaries like India pliant and protected, and keep the barbarians (Russia, China, Iran) from coming together,
What the Americans don't realize is that India is playing its own geopolitical game. Much like Turkey, India is playing the USA-led unipolar bloc and the Eurasian (Russia-China) multipolar bloc against each other.
India seeks to extract concessions from both of these blocs, while feigning interest and commonality with each of them--when in fact India is only interested in advancing its Hindutva fascist vision of Akhand Bharat, which calls for a Hindu Empire ruling over all the lands from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Bangladesh to Nepal and beyond.
In fact, some Indian regime leaders are openly admitting this Akhand Bharat ambition.
Scrapping of Article 370 was step towards achieving dream of Akhand Bharat: Fadnavis
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/scrapping-of-article-370-was-step-towards-achieving-dream-of-akhand-bharat-fadnavis/article65751732.ece
India must support Russia.
Unfortunately Mr. Modi is still a Chinese puppet.
Otherwise he would defend Indian territory or get it back, just as "small" Pakistan did with India bravely.