Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi
The US needs India on good terms to prevent the formation of a giant Eurasian monolith, which it could never hope to circumvent or ignore, let alone defeat.
Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst
Indo-American relations are relatively new and officially started in 1947. However, due to centuries of British colonial rule, they are nearly impossible to separate from the much larger and older context of Anglo-Indian relationship. The ties have been rather one-sided, with Great Britain repeatedly attacking India over the centuries, resulting in the takeover of the country. Britain’s ultra-colonialist policies acquired their greatest prize in India, as the subcontinental civilization was by far the most powerful and advanced the UK ever colonized. The result for India was catastrophic, to say the least. The vibrant millennia-old country was looted and enslaved, much of its historical heritage outright stolen and on some historical occasions even starved to death, as its food was diverted to the Imperial metropolis.
Winston Churchill is now almost universally accepted as one of the main culprits of the horrifying 1943 famine in Bengal, the disastrous effect of which cannot be overstated, since it killed upwards of 4 million people, although some estimates go even beyond that number. Serving as the British Prime Minister at the time, Churchill famously, or rather, infamously said that “Indians breed like rabbits” and that the famine was their fault in what many see as the peak of British colonialist hypocrisy. British India State Secretary Leo Amery wrote in his diary that “upon learning Indian separatists were refusing to resist the Japanese and contribute to the war effort”, Churchill, in private conversation, said, “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.”
This racist and supremacist view was also transplanted to the US, affecting the country’s foreign policy views. The political elites in Washington DC preferred Pakistan over India, taking a largely anti-Indian stance on most matters in the UN. In the 1960s and 1970s, the US took this to the extreme, culminating with the late 1971 standoff, when the US Navy nearly bombed India, which was prevented by the USSR. In December 1971, the Soviet Navy dispatched two groups of cruisers and destroyers and a nuclear-armed submarine from Vladivostok; they trailed the US Task Force 74 into the Indian Ocean until January 1972. The Soviets also had a nuclear submarine to help ward off the threat posed by USS Enterprise task force in the Indian Ocean.
The then US President Richard Nixon was infamous for his hatred and racism towards the Indian people, no less vicious than that of Winston Churchill himself, although thankfully less consequential, but only thanks to Russia’s involvement, which prevented a US attack. Nixon, after a meeting with then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in November 1971, was heard telling Henry Kissinger: “To me, they turn me off. How the hell do they turn other people on, Henry? Tell me. They are repulsive and it’s just easy to be tough with them.” In another instance, while discussing the India-Pakistan war with Kissinger and his Secretary of State William P. Rogers, Nixon said, “I don’t know how they reproduce!”
Indian leadership was well aware of this racist antagonism. The country’s reliance on the USSR contributed greatly to its development and return to great power status. Critical Russian transfers of various technologies helped neutralize many of the issues caused by the British colonial rule, with the most important aspect being security. Russian military technology ensures India’s safety to this very day, as it is often assumed it was the USSR which was critical for India acquiring nuclear weapons. Nowadays, India is still buying and/or jointly producing Russian high-tech armaments, most notably its second-to-none air defense systems, fighter jets, tanks, assault rifles and even aircraft carriers. Notably, Russia is also leasing its nuclear submarines to India, which is a unique occurrence in international relations.
For its part, the US has been trying to build a better relationship with India in the last couple of decades, primarily as a counterweight to China’s growing power. India has also been trying to pursue a multi-vectored foreign policy, so it decided to embrace this as a sign of goodwill. The relationship between the two countries improved greatly, and yet, the US still keeps showing its supremacist attitude towards India by trying to pressure the country into renouncing its time-tested ally Russia, especially in terms of military and geopolitical cooperation. The pressure to denounce Russia increased exponentially after Russia intervened and prevented Ukraine’s offensive in Donbass. However, India has been adamant that the US has no right to lecture others, especially given the history of US-India relations, as well as numerous US invasions across the globe.
US threatening to impose sanctions on India for its relations with Russia certainly doesn’t help the relationship, so the belligerent superpower in decline is forced to readjust its foreign policy towards India. The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, colloquially known as the Quad, provides the framework for the US to do so. It’s a strategic security forum including Australia, India, Japan, and the US, initiated in 2007 by Japan. The obvious geopolitical goal was the strategic containment of China, with which India has had decades-long territorial disputes. By exploiting these issues, the US and its satellites hope to keep a wedge between the Asian giants and, thus, derail their efforts of improving relations.
Although this strategy has not been very successful, since both China and India are making strides to form a long-lasting, comprehensive partnership, an effort Russia wholeheartedly supports, the elites in Washington DC need India on good terms, as this is the only way to prevent the formation of a giant Eurasian monolith, which the US could never hope to circumvent or ignore, let alone defeat. It would effectively be an end of their imperialist thalassocracy and the ultimate defeat of the Sea Power.
China and India sort out their issues and immediately the world will change. The West will HAVE TO think about the future in a very different way.
This is the moment….
Impossible. Indians worship Hindu gods and white supremacy