• freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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    India is likely to fold and punish Russia to get back on the USA’s good side. The Modi contingent are happy with being a junior partner to the empire.

    Edit: I was very ignorant about India. I still am, But I used to be, too.

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      Russia is India’s only real ally since Independence. India isn’t going to cave in to US which has repeatedly shown that it is not trustworthy.

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      I agree, but India is a founding member of brics along w Russia and this is going to be the test that determines whether or not brics will surpass the g8.

      If India caves, the American empire will live on

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        Yes. This is hot on the heels of the US punishing Brazil and attempting to split them off of BRICS. Come to think of it, the recent bullshit of giving Boers asylum may also be aimed at disrupting BRICS.

        India is not likely in an economic position to tell the US to go pound sand, nor do I think they are likely to fully cave. They will attempt to thread the needle, but doing so will require some harm to Russian interests.

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          Indian economy is not dependent on exports to USA. Losing the whole trade would hurt but not as much as ruining the time tested friendship with Russia.

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        As in do something performative that attacks some aspect of Russian revenue in order to get the US to reduce tariffs.

        The reality I am referencing is the Modi government’s clear preference for neoliberalism, constant kowtowing to the USA, and clear recalcitrance towards anything meaningfully anti-imperial.

        Edit: I was very ignorant about India. I still am, But I used to be, too.

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          As in do something performative that attacks some aspect of Russian revenue in order to get the US to reduce tariffs.

          Russia is India’s most important trading partner, and this has remained true for nearly a century. They simply cannot afford to ‘hurt’ Russian revenue even if they wanted to.

          Honestly, this

          constant kowtowing to the USA, and clear recalcitrance towards anything meaningfully anti-imperial.

          is a western fever dream that isn’t backed by anything