Post #64352

This is solid geopolitical analysis. The India blunder cannot be understated. This is one of the fastest growing large economies in the world and its struggles in the past half millennia are more a blip in history than the norm. This similarly applies to China and its century of humiliation. Multiple US administrations were carefully and measurably courting India over the past several decades which Trump undid essentially overnight. India has a very strong history of trust with Russia which dates back hundreds of years but more recently the USSR directly supported India when the US sent nuclear armed vessels into the Bay of Bengal in support of Pakistan during the '71 Indo Pak war (before either India or Pakistan had nukes). Portugal also tried to keep one of it’s colonies (Goa) after the end of WW2 which India took by force. Western nations intended to collude through the UN to force India to give the territory back but the USSR vetoed the vote. Blunders like this generally come from not knowing history and it feels like Western leaders both in Europe and the US are no longer knowledgeable. A few months ago Kaja Kallas, the Vice-President of the European Commission said: "I was in ASEAN meeting, and Russia was addressing China, like: ‘Russia and China, we fought the Second World War, we won the Second World War, we won the Nazis…’ And I was like, ‘Okay, that is something new. If you know history, then it raises a lot of question marks in your head… but nowadays, people don’t really read and remember history that much.’ Completely diminishing the obvious sacrifice both countries made in the war, being the two countries with the most casualities (25 million in the USSR and 20 million in China). If these are the top minds in the West then we are absolutely cooked.