Donald Trump Risks Tanking Twenty-Five Years of U.S.-India Relations

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1. I’ll agree about the bizzare nice treatment of Pakistan and China but the stuff about secondary sanctions over Russian oil is pretty classic American stuff and viewed from a Rus/Ukr view instead of a south Asian foreign policy one makes a lot of sense.

2. India has been tanking relations with the West by supporting Russia’s war crimes

   Edit: Truth hurts, aye?

3. If India genuinely does employ a pragmatic and transactional approach to relations with major powers beyond its region then surely a few ripples in US bilateral affairs can be managed easily

   The Indian logic of buying Russian oil is it is simply pursuing its interests. ‘We do balancing, it’s the cheapest option and our economy takes precedence, Ukraine is not our fight’. Fair enough.

   The US logic is it is simply pursuing its own interests. ‘We have an opportunity to humble Russia and protect Ukraine, India’s support of Russia enables them and imposes costs on the US in terms of military aid and posture’. Fair enough. If Russia can be stopped the US can get troops out of Europe quicker.

4. An entire new generation of Indians, born from the late 90s to 2000s will now learn & internalize why their previous generations took a cautious distrustful approach with the US. Sigh. This is penny wise pound foolish move by Trump.

5. Why did you reelect Trump, my American friends? But on a more serious note I think that indian people and the American people are very much aligned – far more stable than earlier. I don’t think that the president can spoil this much.

6. What I don’t quite understand is why the U.S. deep state appears to be giving Trump so much leeway.

   The strategic direction of a nation is shaped over years—often decades—not in reaction to short-term political shifts.

   Trump now seems singularly focused on forcing Russia to end the war. But even if that happens in the next couple of months, the underlying damage to U.S. alliances and trust is already done. The relationship with key partners is strained, perhaps irreparably.

   So what exactly is the endgame here?

7. He already tanked the relation with India.
   Even if he backtracks tomorrow, which we all doubt, there is no guarantee that he wouldn’t change his mood again the day after.
   And even if he is out of office we now all have seen, that Americans could vote another lunatic into office anytime.
   Trump is the beginning of the end of US dominance. We, the world, should thank him for this.

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