The Latest Putin-Modi Call Confirms That There’s No Bad Blood Between Them
There’s an unprecedentedly intense information warfare campaign being waged by the Golden Billion against the Russian-Indian Strategic Partnership with the intent of manipulating popular perceptions about it, which most recently saw their proxies —including those among the Indian intelligentsia — falsely claiming that there’s bad blood between President Putin and Prime Minister Modi as a result of the latter’s inability to travel to Moscow this year.
The US-led West’s Mainstream Media (MSM) and sympathetic Indian intellectuals wildly speculated that the Russian-Indian Strategic Partnership was finally on the brink of breaking after Prime Minister Modi’s inability to travel to Moscow this year. It’s actually not a big deal that he couldn’t, as I explained at length in the preceding hyperlinked analysis, yet agenda-driving perception managers maliciously sought to manipulate the masses’ reaction to this anodyne development.
It's therefore important to draw attention to the latest call between President Putin and Prime Minister Modi on Friday since it completely discredits the aforementioned information warfare narrative that was propagated against their strategic partnership. According to the Kremlin’s official readout, the two multipolar leaders discussed the gamut of their relations with a special focus on “the prospects for practical cooperation in mutual investment, energy, agriculture, transport and logistics.”
Furthermore, “They also noted the importance of maintaining close coordination within international organisations, including with regard to India’s commenced chairmanship in the G20 and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. At Narendra Modi’s request, Vladimir Putin gave a principled assessment regarding Russia’s policy in Ukraine.” The first part reinforces the fact that India led the Global South in breaking the Golden Billion’s planned isolation of Russia while the second was a routine briefing.
Altogether, the call itself as well as the strategic substance contained therein put to rest the speculation that there’s bad blood between President Putin and Prime Minister Modi after the latter’s inability to travel to Moscow this year. Reflecting on this objectively existing and easily verifiable fact, observers shouldn’t forgot those who told them otherwise since it’s important to remember who these agenda-driven perception managers are, especially those among the Indian intelligentsia.
One of the ways in which the MSM launders its information warfare narratives is through foreign proxies like those folks, whose propagation of its false perceptions serves to extend credence to them in the minds of average people. They might be skeptical of all media from the Golden Billion’s de facto New Cold War bloc but naively believe that influential figures from their own in the Global South are generally much more sincere. That’s not always the case, however, as was once again seen.
Nevertheless, by remembering who the West’s perception management proxies in India are, average folks will now know not to trust them the next time that they wildly speculate about anything having to do with their globally significant Great Power’s decades-long strategic partnership with Russia. Not only that, but outside observers can also learn to avoid those influential figures too instead of innocently assuming that their prestigious professional titles automatically imbue them with key insight.
The fact of the matter is that there’s an unprecedentedly intense information warfare campaign being waged by the Golden Billion against the Russian-Indian Strategic Partnership precisely because the latter has proven to be the most powerful multipolar force in the ongoing global systemic transition. This New Cold War bloc’s declining hegemony over International Relations is threatened like never before by the ways in which those two are revolutionizing world affairs, hence why they’re so desperate to stop them.
Despite having proven themselves powerless to influence their decisionmakers and thus drive a wedge between them, they haven’t given up their malicious mission and have instead shifted towards prioritizing their manipulation of the masses’ perceptions about their strategic partnership. Their agents of influence in the Indian intelligentsia actively collude with their patrons in the Golden Billion due to their shared unipolar vision of International Relations, financial ties, and/or desire for clout.
In any case, this foreign meddling operation relies on the cooperation of local perception management proxies, who’ve once again had their roles in this disinformation ecosystem exposed by subsequent developments. The latest Putin-Modi call thus served more than just the practical purpose of updating one another on Russia’s plans for India to scale its exports by a whopping five times, but also further discredited the enemies of their strategic partnership, including those among the Indian intelligentsia.