World leaders love dictators. You get to talk and negotiate with one person who can meet your demands, instead having to appease a whole nation. That’s why Musharaf was so popular.
Hmmmm Modi seems really popular to Indians and the Indian diaspora.
I don’t agree with Modi but if he is getting elected he is getting elected.
If the west stopped interacting with every questionable leader of a country we’d never interact with any country; including western ones.
I have no time to read the article, but I assume this is about violent oppression of minorities:
I don’t agree with Modi but if he is getting elected he is getting elected.
A certain infamous German shitstain in history was elected, too…
Which German?
He was Austrian… but a little Goodwin law.
but a little Goodwin law.
Godwin, by the way.
The article talks about the potential for India to slide into fascism.
It is definitely something to be concerned about but the things Modi is doing (stoking attacks on Muslims) is marginally better than what the CCP are doing (forced reeducation camps).
The west is happy to turn a blind eye to China, Modi would have to do a lot worse for any reaction from the west.
I’m no china apologist, but if you know anything about how Indians riot, thousands of people can be murdered in a very short period of time. I haven’t heard anything about death squads for Uyghurs. Just saying, if I had to choose between being violently murdered by a Hindu mob and being detained by commies, I’d take the latter.
right, except sometimes it’s easier to impose conditions on certain countries than others. for example the US was able to get the previous Indian administration to sign a treaty ceding partial control of their arsenal to them, on threat of sanctions (if I recall correctly). as much as the US might want to do something like that with China, it wouldn’t be anywhere near as easy to pull off.
this is just an example, I’m not attaching moral value to what occurred/occurs
I don’t disagree and it’s a reasonable point that we should try to influence countries when influence works.
I suppose the downside of trying this with India though is Modi pulls closer to Putin and Xi which would be a bad outcome.
@lemmington_steele @Custoslibera
Assuming Biden wants to do anything about the CCP or Modi.
These regimes are useful to US, extending neoliberalism in India and cheap manufacturing for US companies in China. A little bit of ethnonationalism has never been a concern to US foreign policy.
Compared to other regimes supported by the US, such as Saudi Arabia, both Modi and the CCP are quite liberal regimes.
I get the idea but is Saudi Arabia worse than China?
@NoneOfUrBusiness @alphacyberranger @Custoslibera @raspberriesareyummy @lemmington_steele
Yes, very much so. On so may levels. Treatment of women, invasion of Yemen, brutal judicial system, destruction of climate, sponsorship of terrorism…
Just one example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi
Tyranny of the majority shouldn’t be tolerated.
Religion is very popular in india and Modi knows how to use it as a weapon
Yeah because noone gives a single fuck.
The human race was a mistake.
Yes but thats not the point here.
That includes you, you know?
Yup!
I was a mistake.
same!
