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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15056385/Trump-rages-Putin-Indian-prime-minister-Modi-cozy-hand-hand-anti-NATO-summit.html
Donald Trump lashed out at India's high tariffs after the
country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi was seen holding
hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin at an anti-NATO
summit in China.
Many viewed Modi’s embrace of Putin as a reaction to Trump’s
tariffs on India for buying Russian oil, and Trump quickly
fired back after their meeting.
'What few people understand is that we do very little business
with India, but they do a tremendous amount of business with
us. In other words, they sell us massive amounts of goods,
their biggest 'client,' but we sell them very little - Until
now a totally one sided relationship, and it has been for
many decades,' he said.
. . .
Well ....... get TOO hard-ass and you get a REBELLION.
NOW India and China are going to WORK *AROUND* US,
kind of create their own little trade universe that
does not include USA.
While I fully understand trying to leverage India/China
against Vlad, well, it wasn't going to work very well.
Few feel obligated to bow to the USA anymore, it's
not 1946.
India and China WILL lose money - but gain far more
autonomy, control of their future, eventual more vast
wealth. They will also feel far more free to effectually
absorb Africa and S.America and eventually force the EU
into de-facto slavery.
Play dangerous games and SHIT CAN HAPPEN.
Any ways out ? Probably - but they need to be decisive
and pretty SOON.
This doesn't mean you don't NEED to play dangerous
games in global politics ... rare THAT isn't true.
But who wins, loses, and WHAT are never guarenteed.
China is now touting mach-8 AI anti-ship missiles.
THINK we can just sail in and break up an invasion
or blockade of Taiwan ? Nope. Not at all. All our
big assets would be at the bottom of the ocean
almost immediately. China HAS put the money/tech
into its military, USA/EU/NATO have been SLACKING
for 25 years, delusional sense of superiority.
LOOKS like the the 21st century is going to be
something of a repeat of the nasty 20th. Nasty
dictators, troops marching, bomb-throwing anarchists
and terrorism. Sorry. So much for the Age Of Aquarius.
And mil ... told ya ... think "smaller and many",
the nest of hornets, not a few gigantic targets
that can be zapped in minutes. THAT age of the
mil is just DONE. A legion of R2D2s are the new
military. Sorry, they won't stand and salute ...
such a bummer to command ego eh ?
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