The Stunning Reversal in U.S.-India Relations

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1. My initial reaction was, has it reversed again. Once its passed 6 month, we are in a separate news cycle, it should really be referred to in past tense. 

2. I don’t think the current administration of the US will have any meaningful and trustworthy relations. Not even their long time allies can trust them to not backstab them with tariffs or hidden suggestions of seizing land.

3. It’s reversal in US-everyone relations to be accurate. 

4. I haven’t read the article, but I think people are overstating this. Both countries know they are necessary partners at some level due to China and maintaining a stable Pakistan. Trade was never huge and there will continue to be networks between the private sectors and diaspora in the US.

   In my opinion, I think it mostly comes down to the personalities of the two guys leading these countries. They don’t mesh and never will.

5. I blog on Indian national security and my sense is India’s establishment is stunned.
   It’s little comfort that it’s a stunning reversal of US relations with a lot of countries, not just India. Basic tenets of foreign policy are to assume that both sides are rational and that cooperation is better than an adversarial relationship. Even when there’s a leader who does not
   believe in either tenet, one hoped that a professional team would guide the President, which does not seem to be happening.

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