‘Sir, will China invade us?’ ‘We hear China has increased activities on the border’. Chinese consolidation activities on the LAC have prompted such reactions and fears. Lot of such inquiries from citizens within and outside India. Why? Bodies floating down Ganga, mass graves, lack of oxygen, medicines or hospital beds, botched vaccination program, uninterrupted work on Central Vista - all these have eroded our political capital immensely and seeded such doubts. Our national institutions are being compared to ‘rottweilers’ in the media. Economy? Unemployment figures and stock markets – both rattling up. Strangest combination. Rich getting richer and poor getting poorer. An ominous divergence which bodes ill. Leadership? Kis Chidiya ka naam hai bhai? National level paralysis in responding to the second wave. Erosion in comprehensive national power. Many have never experienced India being so weak. Nor did I for that matter. This frightening experience ...
Gen Shankar & Amb.Malhotra are a whiff of fresh air against all the one-sided propaganda from the West & English media. The professor is an outright propagandist and the other ambassador seems to be straight from the weak-kneed mould of the vasudheva kuttam-bunkum moralist that our foreign service seems to have been infested with. Russia won't tolerate an existentialist threat and repression of russian speakers on its border, which is difficult for these types to understand as we are willing to even allow genocides of our own within our own borders.
ReplyDeleteUkraine is most surely a proxy for the US's destabilizing games and Biden's rhetoric is simply to counteract his miserable ratings and potential loss of control of the house & senate in November.