Comments by "" (@death_parade) on "Ready for China: RAF joins US & Australia for largest Allied air exercise ever" video.
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@CarShopping101 You sure about that? Maybe you need to ring up the State Department and tell them to lay off with the subnational diplomacy bull$hit they are spinning these days under the guise of people-people relationship. Look pal, I am not some America hater or anything. Nor am I a conspiracy nut. I am merely someone who is a realist that closely follows the realpolitik markers when observing geopolitics. From a realpolitik standpoint, it makes sense for USA to want to take over Indian sovereignty somewhat like what they have done to the South Koreans or British i.e. vassalization.
Let me explain: USA has a large national interest in ensuring that a non-Anglo-Saxon and especially a non-Western civilization state does not grow economically, technologically or militarily powerful enough to challenge the Western preeminence in global affairs, that is the current world order. Why because USA and its Western allies benefit disproportionately from the existing world order. India, with its large and young population, long civilizational history, technologically adept society and rapidly growing economic, military and technological might makes for a prime long-term challenger.
However, there are two problems if USA tries to adopt a posture of direct confrontation with India:-
1.) The rise of China has occurred much before India and unlike India, China is not someone you can negotiate with. China is not a democracy that you can infiltrate with your soft propaganda tools like BBC, CNN, Google, Twitter, etc. China is not like India where you can directly reach out to their population to try and mold their thinking. So only option with China is a military containment strategy, and it makes sense to co-opt India (which in near future will be world's third largest economy and military) for that role, also because India and China are in a direct confrontation.
2.) Although USA and West are nothing but Imperial powers, they have adorned the mask of "Champions of democracy" and "Rules based international order". Ofcourse this is nothing but a charade but for appearances sake, the charade must be kept up. And so direct confrontation with the World's largest democracy (India) is a bit difficult to explain away (although USA does take measures to regularly raise questions on "India's democratic credentials" through "neutral third parties" so if push comes to shove, India can be easily portrayed as "not really a democracy" and then attacked openly). Connected to this is the fact that India's own grand strategy seeks to exploit this Western weakness by exposing the charade and offering an alternative "rules based international order" to the world that is multipolar and thus more equitable in its power structure. Naturally this targets not only countries that have been trampled upon by the current world order (like Iraq), but also countries that might gain more with the new world order than they did under the existing one (countries like France and Japan). And this implication of India's grand strategy is deemed by USA and West as being "directly threatening to the current world order". And rightly so.
But unlike China, the India problem until recently was in a very nascent state for USA. And USA wants to prudently "nip it in the bud". So what choice does USA have left? That choice is to engage in diplomatic outreach to India, overtly extending a hand of friendship while doing what the Brits did and exploiting Indian social faultlines to weaken the Indian society and economy from within. Ideally, USA wants to permanently weaken India by creating civil strife that also impacts high value addition economic sectors of India. And this is why USA co-opts Indian expats for its goals and also funds all these NGOs to wage hybrid war on India (and why India fights back through such means as the FCRA act which I am sure you have no idea about).
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