Rather than succumb to US threats and stop buying Russian oil, India decided to abide by its own national interests and defiantly stand up to the White House, retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official Larry Johnson told Sputnik.
With the United States now being regarded as a “bully” and “as someone who’s making unreasonable demands,” India has also moved to further solidify relations “with its longstanding nemesis, China,” Johnson pointed out.
Until recently, many Indian entrepreneurs and wealthy businessmen were quite vocal about maintaining a close relationship with the US and “basically trying to accommodate the United States.”
But the White House managed to change it.
“They are angry. They are resentful. And they’re looking now to find alternatives to dealing with the United States,” Johnson said.
Modi has so far been unable to say anything bad about Trump.
True but hes the only “leader” leaving trump on read lmao
He loves his optics, his bureaucrats are having talks instead. Everything he does is for optics with zero substance.
I never understood why foreign capitalists keep trying to appeal to the USA.
Do they really not understand that their own interests are not aligned with that of American capitalists? Russian capitalists figured this out and it’s why Putin didn’t continue the Yeltsin policy of kowtowing to Washington. But it seems like a lot of capitalists in other countries - particularly ones outside the Imperial Core, but to some extent also those within it - don’t seem to understand that the capitalist class of an imperialist power is always going to be as much of a threat to their own interests as their own indigenous proletariat.
If they want the same power & privilege as American capitalists and want to hold onto it firmly they need to compete with the US by engaging in their own imperialism. If they don’t the US is just going to bully them until they either fall in line or are eliminated. This is how capitalism works: competition until a winner emerges and forms a monopoly. It works just the same internationally as it does nationally. The market is just as cutthroat across borders as it is within them. Yet they keep trying to work with American capitalists and expecting them to hold up their end of the deal, which I don’t get at all.
Like… no? That’s not how it works? Capitalists are businesspeople and they run countries like corporations. Corporations don’t have friends or allies; they have competitors and subsidiaries. You’re either one or the other. Yet shockingly capitalists, of all people, keep forgetting this!
as we’re seeing trump’s blackmail attempts at brics fail miserably, how long until he takes the belic route?
