The future looks bright for Indo-US ties so long as Indian Americans, Indian-friendly officials, and geopolitical pragmatists follow Trump into the White House.
USA needs India more than India needs USA at this moment. The two don't need to be in any kind of alliance, and there is no point for that QUAD against China either. As long as USA treats India as a peer, things would go smooth for a transition into a multipolar world. As for a counter-China strategy, I would say the best one starts from inside the USA borders, not from the other side of Pacific.
In terms of military power, yes. In terms of willingness and capabilities to project military power overseas, USA is still nuber one, as Russia does not have the will and only weak means. In terms of economic power, if we count only real production and nothing due to financial engineering, USA and India may be far closer. Most importantly, the common background of bullying is "I am better and bigger than you". Once USA leaders and diplomats have that kind of attitude, it will not have successful diplomacy. Thousands years ago, Laozi of China had said when large nations interact with small nations, large nations should show humbleness. Only with thhis kind of attitude, the global south would be treated as peers, and it would be easier for USA to achieve its diplomatic goals.
Your post is honest, Mr Nakayama, and depicts things as they ought to be. However, the best anyone can do at the moment in terms of figuring out what's brewing in the minds of American policymakers is hazarding a guess. Truth will only emerge for certainty once things unfold in the days to come. Till then, one can only hope with cautious optimism whilst also keeping one's fingers crossed. The deep state is so obsessed with maximal parasitisation of true wealth-generator economies worldwide in one scoop, that the idea of going easy on that one simply does not curry favour with it, despite such a course being arguably the best pursuit in long term interests of the USA.
Bye bye Zinn and Galeano and W.E.B. DuBois and Baldwin and, well, give us that million hit list on their hit list.
And the fucking queer thinkers think it's bad bad Trump, dudes. The AmeriKKKan wasteland has over a hundred million mother fucking monsters cooking up schemes and/or following marching orders.
The memo supports eliminating the federal education department in favor of moving to block grants.
Walters outlines five areas where he sees this as beneficial for Oklahoma schools: Parental rights, ending social indoctrination in classrooms, protecting patriotism in curriculum, stopping illegal immigration’s impact on schools and blocking foreign influence.
If there are any India-friendly officials in Trump's entourage, second lady Usha Chilukuri is not one of them. Usha Chilukuri is not an Indian national. At the most, all she has to show by way of connection with South Asia is her Dravidian roots, which makes her qualify for the title of an American with Dravidian ancestory from a self-styled priestly family. Otherwise, in all respects, her demeanour and conduct ranging from her style of smooching in public, to the way she carries herself before crowds and her ideological leanings, is typically American. It is another matter though, that the American administration might be considering putting her to use for leveraging influence on the Indian polity, by evincing bonhomie consequent upon misleading evoked perceptions of ethno-cultural camarederie. In that event, her clout can be utilised by the American deep state for lulling Indian leadership into ceding concessions before American foreign policy diktats, which could in all probability mean India getting shortchanged in the bargain by way of obvious detriment to Indian national and strategic interests. The extent to which the Indian political leadership can outmanoeuvre this power-play seeking to further American geostrategic goals at the cost of Indian national interests by dangling the lure of pseudo-"Indian" persona as bait, will turn on the deftness of the real "balancing act" performed by Indian policymakers. For now, Usha Chilukuri, much like her forerunner Kamala Harris, is being marketed as "brahmin" by quite a few PRO afficionadoes in southern India, who are positing that she has done the creed of Dravidian Brahminism proud by dint of her steadfast loyalty to the establishment in her land of birth USA, and that co-ethnicist Dravidian brahmins in India owe an obligation to their creed and tribe to ensure that things sail smoothly for her in her travails in her adopted homeland, meaning in plain English that they should own up and support all her political endeavours, even if they be tantamount to undermining Indian autonomy and sovereignty and run contrary to the cause of global multipolarity in general. Sycophants who eulogise the likes of Usha Chilukuri and erstwhile British First Lady Akshata Murthy on such a grand communal scale, fail to achieve anything tangible by way of demonstrable benefit to their own communities except for fooling those communities including themselves. Their reasoning does not appeal to me though, and fails to make sense to the vast majority of Hindi-speaking Indian masses as well, for obvious reasons. As for Usha's political career and electoral prospects, only time will tell whether she continues to be of any relevance on the American political scene once she has served the purpose for which she has been fielded by her principals in the first place, or withers into oblivion like the co-ethnicist Akshatha Murthy-Rishi Sunak duo whose political career has now all but ended for practical purposes. As of now, any independent audit will fail to demonstrate even an iota of benefit conferred upon India by Dravidian Brahmin stalwart Akshatha Murthy in her erstwhile capacity as First Lady of Anglo Saxon Britain.
The morons on the left and the right, man oh man, Reverand Jimmy Trump Jones, you coming with the Gatorade?
Fascism is fascism, whether it is in the shadow of an Orange NPD Guy like Trump, who has cheated and stolen and raped and lied and denied his ignorance for, well, six decades? Almost his entire slug-born life?
Fucking hell.
Trump is the evil of the lessers. Lesser evil Harris? Probably, for sure. But TRUMP? A good Adolph Hitler Lover and of course lover and fearful of the Adolph Netanhayu.
These fucking misogynists love each other, and the mic in his mouth, the blow job stunt, well, Trump is an anal wasteland.
Now the centrists and sort of lefties come out like blood sucking ticks, or bed bugs like Scott Ritter.
Pure crap, and the bloke is in the UK, the Inbred UnUnited Queen-dom? What fun, a little break from this hell hole.
AND there are at least 150 million deplorables of every stripe in USA.
DON'T fool yourselves.
Read this shit below and figure out why fake lefties are spineless fucking keyboard warriors.
We on the left are facing an existential crisis with Trump’s election victory but also an opportunity.
Supporting the Democrats and their chosen candidate, Kamala Harris, as a tactical move to preserve freedom to organize and to protest was clearly unsuccessful as her poorly performed campaign did worse than Hillary Clinton did against Trump eight years before. Indeed she lost not just in the Electoral College tally but in the popular vote, which Clinton at least won. The Democratic Party has been shown once again to be a pathetic joke as a political opponent. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who won a resounding re-election to the Senate in Vermont, identified right before Harris’s concession speech on Thursday, the party’s problem: It is owned by billionaires and moneyed consultants wedded to corporate interests, and is dismissive or even hostile to the interests of the working class.
India and the USA - although I can understand the remarks, I think that
„The USA has no friends, the USA has interests." Henry A Kissinger that is the crucial thing. Many here in Germany, apart from the mainstream and politics, have put some hope in Trump. The end of the war in Ukraine, but that’s all.
The fact is, and I agree with one commentator, that the US needs more than to turn India. But what should not be overlooked is India’s current central position within the BRICS+. This is something that bothers the US because we should remember George Friedman in 2015 before the Chicago Council
"We have other foreign policy interests. In the last century, during the First and Second World Wars and the Cold War, US foreign policy focused on relations between Germany and Russia. United, they are the only power that can threaten us, and our main concern was to make sure this case did not happen."
Germany and Europe have recently pulled themselves out of the net and are not playing a role in geostrategy. That is why the US is also interested in shifting its focus to the Pacific and where it needs India to consolidate its position. Supporting AUKAS alone would be absurd, as many states in the Pacific region flirt with the BRICS+, which the US cannot and does not want to allow.
The question will be whether India will so easily subordinate its position to US interests.
Trump could also take a fresh approach to North Korea. That is why vice president Vance is being decisively built up in the background - all for the interests of the USA in the near future. The Democrats have lost all this for a quick success, Trump could on the one hand contain with his landslide victory on a broad front and on the other hand approach the medium-term strategy.
Let’s wait and see how he lost the Ukraine and Middle East conflict, because these are two crucial stumbling blocks.
"Trump must successfully rein in liberal-globalist elements of his “deep state”, which will be a challenge."
Well, that's the GOOD thing about him coming back for a second term: the 'liberal-globalist elements of his “deep state”' should now be familiar; it shouldn't take too long to work out how to flush them out. Fingers crossed!
"Trump’s team is expected to follow a Kissingerian Great Power balancing strategy so this appeal to its global role might resonate with them."
Well, let's not get TOO excited and put the cart before the horse; but, yes, there is potential there and it does form a good, strong basis for realistic hope.
"...negotiating a free trade deal."
Yes, this and the bee he seems to have in his bonnet about using tariffs to make deals could also, potentially, have promising results.
"...reining in liberal-globalist elements of the “deep state”..."
This is a BIG part of it, and arguably the most important part BUT don't forget the 'Deep State' comprises just as many Fats Nuland and Moron McCain types as it does their 'liberal-globalist' (WOKE!) counterparts. Trump has one hell of a tricky balancing act on his hands now: how do you make a state worthy of existence out of one which has been made by capitalism and bankers?
"...if the Guajarati-descended Trump loyalist Patel becomes the next CIA chief."
Google translate, 'Modi ji aur Trump ki Jodi' (language detected — HIndi): 'Modi and Trump pair'. Presumably meaning Modi and Trump are the same as each other, a pair — two of a kind?
this reporting seems more hopeful, at least on one front. I'd be especially interested on your take of Trump and psychopath Yahoo. The issue is at the front of the news everywhere, but not sure since he won. the populist president will continue to hear the voice of the people. However, I might not disagree the "voice of the people" also have their own self interests at heart and don't give a damn about how our elections effect countries and people around the world. What does that make us?
Maybe you haven’t seen some of this. Webb is particularly important. See it before it disappears.
North Dakota is the only state in the union that has a state bank in which a money spigot opens when disaster strikes their people, unlike the feds. They were the first lawmakers who when The Great Taking revealed an evil plot to take land and homes still paying on a mortgage
Great stuff, very interesting, thanks. I'm not going down any rabbit holes in North Dakota(!) but I found it very interesting to see John Helmer's report on the disintegration of the British government's spin on the 'Salisbury Poisonings' very interesting, not least because it seem so few people, other than Mr Helmer himself, seem to have any interest in it.
My first thought on the day it broke, in 2018, was that this was the result of Boris Johnson, the then-Foreign Secretary, instructing or requesting the lab at Porton Down to come up with means to spin this web. I don't believe the Americans asked for it directly but Johnson did if off his own back, as a means of ingratiating himself and the British by 'strengthening their special relationship.' Those details are a long, long way off — we probably won't get them in our lifetime — but I remain and am increasingly convinced that is the essence of the lie: Mr Johnson's perceived ability to ingratiate himself and Britain to the American(s' secret services), using the sycophantic 'Special Relationship' to embolden the Fats Nuland and Moron McCain brigade to expedite their plans in the Ukraine.
Looks like it. There certainly are enough of them! More than enough to keep you digging for the rest of your days, I should think. (Hey, why not — it works for rabbits, after all?)
I had a quick look at the Winter Oak site, too. Also more than enough to keep one engaged for a long, long time! John Lash did a lot of work around and about this sort of stuff, his opus being, 'Not In His Image'. Sound historic basis and lots of related information feeding in/out. Looks like it might have played a fairly significant role in making the Winter Oak stuff?
USA needs India more than India needs USA at this moment. The two don't need to be in any kind of alliance, and there is no point for that QUAD against China either. As long as USA treats India as a peer, things would go smooth for a transition into a multipolar world. As for a counter-China strategy, I would say the best one starts from inside the USA borders, not from the other side of Pacific.
But India is not really a peer of America. It should aspire and work towards being a peer. At the moment, it is far away.
Both countries should simply try and act in their own national interests. Hopefully, long term interests.
In terms of military power, yes. In terms of willingness and capabilities to project military power overseas, USA is still nuber one, as Russia does not have the will and only weak means. In terms of economic power, if we count only real production and nothing due to financial engineering, USA and India may be far closer. Most importantly, the common background of bullying is "I am better and bigger than you". Once USA leaders and diplomats have that kind of attitude, it will not have successful diplomacy. Thousands years ago, Laozi of China had said when large nations interact with small nations, large nations should show humbleness. Only with thhis kind of attitude, the global south would be treated as peers, and it would be easier for USA to achieve its diplomatic goals.
Your post is honest, Mr Nakayama, and depicts things as they ought to be. However, the best anyone can do at the moment in terms of figuring out what's brewing in the minds of American policymakers is hazarding a guess. Truth will only emerge for certainty once things unfold in the days to come. Till then, one can only hope with cautious optimism whilst also keeping one's fingers crossed. The deep state is so obsessed with maximal parasitisation of true wealth-generator economies worldwide in one scoop, that the idea of going easy on that one simply does not curry favour with it, despite such a course being arguably the best pursuit in long term interests of the USA.
Goddamn you fucking fascists are something else.
Congratulate the fucking handmaid tales and Brave New World soldiers of the Judaic Christian Soldiers with Big Mac's holstered up.
This is what the fucking Obama(s)-Oprah-Clinton(s)-Biden(s)-Nuland-Blinken-Wailing Wall White House Democrats have given us.
Burn, censor, pre-criminalize, ban, ghost, eliminate, destroy!
Bye bye Zinn and Galeano and W.E.B. DuBois and Baldwin and, well, give us that million hit list on their hit list.
And the fucking queer thinkers think it's bad bad Trump, dudes. The AmeriKKKan wasteland has over a hundred million mother fucking monsters cooking up schemes and/or following marching orders.
https://www.kosu.org/2024-11-07/superintendent-walters-prepares-oklahoma-schools-for-elimination-of-u-s-department-of-education
The memo supports eliminating the federal education department in favor of moving to block grants.
Walters outlines five areas where he sees this as beneficial for Oklahoma schools: Parental rights, ending social indoctrination in classrooms, protecting patriotism in curriculum, stopping illegal immigration’s impact on schools and blocking foreign influence.
The 21st century is being defined by the civilizational state. In this world India is a superpower. America has no clue
If there are any India-friendly officials in Trump's entourage, second lady Usha Chilukuri is not one of them. Usha Chilukuri is not an Indian national. At the most, all she has to show by way of connection with South Asia is her Dravidian roots, which makes her qualify for the title of an American with Dravidian ancestory from a self-styled priestly family. Otherwise, in all respects, her demeanour and conduct ranging from her style of smooching in public, to the way she carries herself before crowds and her ideological leanings, is typically American. It is another matter though, that the American administration might be considering putting her to use for leveraging influence on the Indian polity, by evincing bonhomie consequent upon misleading evoked perceptions of ethno-cultural camarederie. In that event, her clout can be utilised by the American deep state for lulling Indian leadership into ceding concessions before American foreign policy diktats, which could in all probability mean India getting shortchanged in the bargain by way of obvious detriment to Indian national and strategic interests. The extent to which the Indian political leadership can outmanoeuvre this power-play seeking to further American geostrategic goals at the cost of Indian national interests by dangling the lure of pseudo-"Indian" persona as bait, will turn on the deftness of the real "balancing act" performed by Indian policymakers. For now, Usha Chilukuri, much like her forerunner Kamala Harris, is being marketed as "brahmin" by quite a few PRO afficionadoes in southern India, who are positing that she has done the creed of Dravidian Brahminism proud by dint of her steadfast loyalty to the establishment in her land of birth USA, and that co-ethnicist Dravidian brahmins in India owe an obligation to their creed and tribe to ensure that things sail smoothly for her in her travails in her adopted homeland, meaning in plain English that they should own up and support all her political endeavours, even if they be tantamount to undermining Indian autonomy and sovereignty and run contrary to the cause of global multipolarity in general. Sycophants who eulogise the likes of Usha Chilukuri and erstwhile British First Lady Akshata Murthy on such a grand communal scale, fail to achieve anything tangible by way of demonstrable benefit to their own communities except for fooling those communities including themselves. Their reasoning does not appeal to me though, and fails to make sense to the vast majority of Hindi-speaking Indian masses as well, for obvious reasons. As for Usha's political career and electoral prospects, only time will tell whether she continues to be of any relevance on the American political scene once she has served the purpose for which she has been fielded by her principals in the first place, or withers into oblivion like the co-ethnicist Akshatha Murthy-Rishi Sunak duo whose political career has now all but ended for practical purposes. As of now, any independent audit will fail to demonstrate even an iota of benefit conferred upon India by Dravidian Brahmin stalwart Akshatha Murthy in her erstwhile capacity as First Lady of Anglo Saxon Britain.
The morons on the left and the right, man oh man, Reverand Jimmy Trump Jones, you coming with the Gatorade?
Fascism is fascism, whether it is in the shadow of an Orange NPD Guy like Trump, who has cheated and stolen and raped and lied and denied his ignorance for, well, six decades? Almost his entire slug-born life?
Fucking hell.
Trump is the evil of the lessers. Lesser evil Harris? Probably, for sure. But TRUMP? A good Adolph Hitler Lover and of course lover and fearful of the Adolph Netanhayu.
These fucking misogynists love each other, and the mic in his mouth, the blow job stunt, well, Trump is an anal wasteland.
Now the centrists and sort of lefties come out like blood sucking ticks, or bed bugs like Scott Ritter.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/08/trumps-antiwar-promise/
Pure crap, and the bloke is in the UK, the Inbred UnUnited Queen-dom? What fun, a little break from this hell hole.
AND there are at least 150 million deplorables of every stripe in USA.
DON'T fool yourselves.
Read this shit below and figure out why fake lefties are spineless fucking keyboard warriors.
We on the left are facing an existential crisis with Trump’s election victory but also an opportunity.
Supporting the Democrats and their chosen candidate, Kamala Harris, as a tactical move to preserve freedom to organize and to protest was clearly unsuccessful as her poorly performed campaign did worse than Hillary Clinton did against Trump eight years before. Indeed she lost not just in the Electoral College tally but in the popular vote, which Clinton at least won. The Democratic Party has been shown once again to be a pathetic joke as a political opponent. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who won a resounding re-election to the Senate in Vermont, identified right before Harris’s concession speech on Thursday, the party’s problem: It is owned by billionaires and moneyed consultants wedded to corporate interests, and is dismissive or even hostile to the interests of the working class.
India and the USA - although I can understand the remarks, I think that
„The USA has no friends, the USA has interests." Henry A Kissinger that is the crucial thing. Many here in Germany, apart from the mainstream and politics, have put some hope in Trump. The end of the war in Ukraine, but that’s all.
The fact is, and I agree with one commentator, that the US needs more than to turn India. But what should not be overlooked is India’s current central position within the BRICS+. This is something that bothers the US because we should remember George Friedman in 2015 before the Chicago Council
"We have other foreign policy interests. In the last century, during the First and Second World Wars and the Cold War, US foreign policy focused on relations between Germany and Russia. United, they are the only power that can threaten us, and our main concern was to make sure this case did not happen."
Germany and Europe have recently pulled themselves out of the net and are not playing a role in geostrategy. That is why the US is also interested in shifting its focus to the Pacific and where it needs India to consolidate its position. Supporting AUKAS alone would be absurd, as many states in the Pacific region flirt with the BRICS+, which the US cannot and does not want to allow.
The question will be whether India will so easily subordinate its position to US interests.
Trump could also take a fresh approach to North Korea. That is why vice president Vance is being decisively built up in the background - all for the interests of the USA in the near future. The Democrats have lost all this for a quick success, Trump could on the one hand contain with his landslide victory on a broad front and on the other hand approach the medium-term strategy.
Let’s wait and see how he lost the Ukraine and Middle East conflict, because these are two crucial stumbling blocks.
"Trump must successfully rein in liberal-globalist elements of his “deep state”, which will be a challenge."
Well, that's the GOOD thing about him coming back for a second term: the 'liberal-globalist elements of his “deep state”' should now be familiar; it shouldn't take too long to work out how to flush them out. Fingers crossed!
"Trump’s team is expected to follow a Kissingerian Great Power balancing strategy so this appeal to its global role might resonate with them."
Well, let's not get TOO excited and put the cart before the horse; but, yes, there is potential there and it does form a good, strong basis for realistic hope.
"...negotiating a free trade deal."
Yes, this and the bee he seems to have in his bonnet about using tariffs to make deals could also, potentially, have promising results.
"...reining in liberal-globalist elements of the “deep state”..."
This is a BIG part of it, and arguably the most important part BUT don't forget the 'Deep State' comprises just as many Fats Nuland and Moron McCain types as it does their 'liberal-globalist' (WOKE!) counterparts. Trump has one hell of a tricky balancing act on his hands now: how do you make a state worthy of existence out of one which has been made by capitalism and bankers?
"...if the Guajarati-descended Trump loyalist Patel becomes the next CIA chief."
Agreed: that would be a good sign.
India and the US will never be allies. India will play both sides as always. Sooner the US realises this the better.
Modi ji aur Trump ki Jodi
Google translate, 'Modi ji aur Trump ki Jodi' (language detected — HIndi): 'Modi and Trump pair'. Presumably meaning Modi and Trump are the same as each other, a pair — two of a kind?
this reporting seems more hopeful, at least on one front. I'd be especially interested on your take of Trump and psychopath Yahoo. The issue is at the front of the news everywhere, but not sure since he won. the populist president will continue to hear the voice of the people. However, I might not disagree the "voice of the people" also have their own self interests at heart and don't give a damn about how our elections effect countries and people around the world. What does that make us?
"...Trump and psychopath Yahoo. The issue is at the front of the news everywhere..."
This is the first I've heard of it.
Maybe you haven’t seen some of this. Webb is particularly important. See it before it disappears.
North Dakota is the only state in the union that has a state bank in which a money spigot opens when disaster strikes their people, unlike the feds. They were the first lawmakers who when The Great Taking revealed an evil plot to take land and homes still paying on a mortgage
https://thebndstory.nd.gov/an-agile-partner/role-in-disaster-relief/
https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/04/ellen-brown-our-fragile-infrastructure-lessons-from-hurricane-helene/#respond
David Rogers Webb
https://www.youtube.com/com/watch?v=1GHXeOPbNG4
Maybe we aren't on the same sites. Here's a couple of mine. I did not mean to imply MSM at all.
mronline.org
winteroak.org.uk
Great stuff, very interesting, thanks. I'm not going down any rabbit holes in North Dakota(!) but I found it very interesting to see John Helmer's report on the disintegration of the British government's spin on the 'Salisbury Poisonings' very interesting, not least because it seem so few people, other than Mr Helmer himself, seem to have any interest in it.
My first thought on the day it broke, in 2018, was that this was the result of Boris Johnson, the then-Foreign Secretary, instructing or requesting the lab at Porton Down to come up with means to spin this web. I don't believe the Americans asked for it directly but Johnson did if off his own back, as a means of ingratiating himself and the British by 'strengthening their special relationship.' Those details are a long, long way off — we probably won't get them in our lifetime — but I remain and am increasingly convinced that is the essence of the lie: Mr Johnson's perceived ability to ingratiate himself and Britain to the American(s' secret services), using the sycophantic 'Special Relationship' to embolden the Fats Nuland and Moron McCain brigade to expedite their plans in the Ukraine.
Just saying, but always interested to see someone else, like John Helmer, smelling the rat behind all the red herrings, and likewise interested to see someone else, like MROnline (https://mronline.org/2024/11/04/novichok-show-trial-suffers-sudden-death-shot/) following the case.
Another rabbit hole?
https://dongrande.substack.com/p/oklahoma-house-hearing-on-the-great
Looks like it. There certainly are enough of them! More than enough to keep you digging for the rest of your days, I should think. (Hey, why not — it works for rabbits, after all?)
I had a quick look at the Winter Oak site, too. Also more than enough to keep one engaged for a long, long time! John Lash did a lot of work around and about this sort of stuff, his opus being, 'Not In His Image'. Sound historic basis and lots of related information feeding in/out. Looks like it might have played a fairly significant role in making the Winter Oak stuff?