Aadi and I discuss some more issues regarding the on going QUAD Summit
‘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 Saab, The US is a hegemon. As all hegemons, Uncle Sam is transformed into a rent seeker. The dollar is the vehicle for rent seeking and its the rest of the world that foots the bill for all its capricious military adventures. That includes India, China and Russia. Usurping and appropriating the commons was the strategy laid down by Rear Admrl Alfred Mahaan Thayer. That was amplified in the seminal work of Marine Gen Smedley Butler - First goes the dollar the boots follow and then the flag ! " Isn't the trajectory familiar aka East India Company ?
ReplyDeleteThose who seek to befriend US need to look at the work of Paul Wolfowitz and Zebgniew Brezinski. Three adverseries were visualised in that document, Project for the new American Century. India is seen as the third adversary! Can we ever forget Dec 1971? At that point of time there was the Soviet Union to help, and now we are alone saddled with a bunch of traitors calling themselves NASSCom, each one sharing the same DNA as Jagat Seth. We are alone in our quest for peace, isn't that the reality, Sir ?
Not anonymous. Its Chandrashekar Shivkumar.
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