The US should not normalize Modi’s autocratic and illiberal India at the G20
The US should not normalize Modi’s autocratic and illiberal India at the G20 | Jason Stanley
Despite his lip-service to democracy and human rights, Biden keeps embracing autocrats and would-be autocrats
Why would the US stop supporting autocratic and illiberal regimes now? Did we find our principles at any point in the last 70 years?
Illiberal? The BJP party and the RSS are fascists.
Can confirm, it's literally 1939 and we force Muslims to wear gold stars and send them to concentration camps.
PM Modi says "Identify them by their clothes", and all over India Hindu supremacists beat Muslim men to death after forcing them praise the Hindu god Ram.
PM Modi ignores and refuses to discuss the ethnic & communal genocidal civil war in Manipur that is in its 5th month, while churches are burnt and Kukis have been ethnically cleansed from Imphal valley.
Peacefully protesting Sikh farmers are called Khalistani and terrorists while a violet hindu supremacist attacks them under Delhi police's eye.
Wow. Genocide is not a minimum criteria for fascism.
Fascism is characterized by an ideology that one group of people is superior to others. That's literally the ideology of the RSS. Hindu nationalism is fascism.
Do we Indians have a server on Lemmy? just wondering.
Oh, I forgot the part where a country could be fascist without literally committing the Holocaust.
As an Indian, this issue is far more complex than you make it out to be. I never voted for BJP but yeah, they are not fascists, but the potential is there. RSS is basically like the military wing of BJP, more accurately, BJP is the political wing of RSS.
We Indians have seen oppression under the left and the right, so we don't usually use these labels so loosely.
Unsure what they think letting India have only Russia to turn to would gain the US, but I promise it isn't realistic.
Well at least he's not sending love letters to little Kim.
Yeah, no. I am all against Modi and the BJP and most of their policies (except for the Foreign policy which has been a win acc to me)
But, no. You will not punish Indians because Modi is the leader of the country. And it's not in US interest to do this either. Some idiot at the Guardian might think this, but yeah, thankfully US foreign policy heads are not this dumb.
US foreign policy is happy to punish Chinese people for Xi Jinping and Iranian people for Khamenei. Iranian women who want to study in the US and leave the regime get their visas denied and their study rights revoked for the audacity of having an Iranian passport.
Thats how ive always felt about North Korea. America is why they starve
Reminder that India is still happily trading with Russia by buying their arms and buying their oil. In fact, India and Russia together found ways to circumvent the oil price cap and most Indians support Russia in Ukraine.
India is not an American ally. They're neutral and self-interested as they've always been.
India is also happily trading with China. It's imports from China increased after China built villages in India's Arunchal Pradesh, invaded India's Ladakh & beat 20 Indian soldiers to death. Prime Mninister Modi's response to that act invasion & aggression was to publicly say that China did not invade India.
Modi is not USA's friend. He is a dictator who is friendly with other dictators.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Biden opened his address to the summit by describing his motivation for holding it: “in the face of sustained and alarming challenges … democracy needs champions”.
More recently, Biden invited Benjamin Netanyahu, who is presiding over the destruction of Israel’s democracy by targeting its judicial system, for an official visit to the United States.
In 2005 Modi, then the chief minister of Gujarat, was denied entry to the US because of his role in ethnic violence that left over 1,000 people dead, the vast majority of them Muslims.
According to a recently declassified report from the British Foreign Office, the Hindu mobs’ “systematic campaign of violence has all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing” and “Narendra Modi is directly responsible.”
The National Registry Act, already implemented in the Indian state of Assam, is a seemingly contradictory effort to expel illegal immigrants.
Jack Kirby, a US national security official, has made light of objections to Modi, declaring that “India is a vibrant democracy.
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Please do. Create a different post/thread and well discuss those as well in that thread.
Under Modi India actually made it to the moon, a feat only a few handful of countries on Earth have done. Spare me the autocrat nonsense, he's been the best thing to happen to India since 1947 when they kicked out the British
Why would anyone attribute credit to politicians for the work that scientists do ?
Scientists need funding and public support. That's the role of politicians.
NASA would never have made it to the moon without public support for the billions of dollars that went into NASA coffers. Kennedy deserves credit for finding funding and public support for NASA.
Because the scientists like Modi. It's no different then a President claiming their administration is responsible for this or that here in the states
The real question is why are people so mad about a country that went from colonial subjugation to landing on the moon in just 80 years? That's something worthy of respect from anyone who actually has an ounce of humanity in them and cares about Democracy.
Abey chup lawde.
There's always a choice, but while Modi's India is a fairly bad ally, it's still better than others, like Saudi Arabia. Gotta pick your battles.
Maybe some day when the important conflicts are in a different region we can take India to task over things like their police-sanctioned cybercriminals that keep robbing the elderly.
Lmao. The police here are far too busy harassing innocent citizens to do that.
Yes, they have a choice. Ignoring India's issues including that they in fact increase trade with Russia massively is not what stops them from going on like this.
Making an enemy of a country with 1 billion people is absurd reddit-tier kind of logic. It's far better to have a country like India as a close ally
Why would India join any sphere? India's success historically has always been from a policy of neutrality and having the Himalayan mountains block any ideas against that neutrality.