How dare India think it can have autonomy, make it own decisions about how to relate to other countries! It's our rules-based order!
These people are delusional. They really think they can bully the largest countries in the world, when they can't even figure out who's running their own. It's a fucking Black Mirror episode.
I'm sure this will go down well in India... https://x.com/sidhant/status/sidhant/status/1811459524198564318/video/1…
Their US ambassador, Eric Garcetti, is literally saying they can't remain autonomous: "I know that India likes its strategic autonomy but in times of conflict there is no such thing as strategic autonomy".
He goes on: "We will need to know that we are trusted friends, brothers and sisters, colleagues that in times of need - on the next day - will be acting together. They will know each others' equipment, they will know each others' training, they will know each others' systems."
He also heavily implies he expects India to fight with the US in the East China Sea and Taiwan, saying that during joint US-India military exercises they "focused on humanitarian emergency but the lessons learned go beyond humanitarian emergencies to those moments we all pray will never happen whether they're on your northern border, whether they're in the East China Sea, whether they're in the strait of Taiwan."
The US used to tell all those things to China just a few decades ago, when they needed it to counter the Soviet Union... And now that China has grown they want to use India to counter it, and will undoubtedly try to contain India if and when it also becomes too big...
I suspect that India is ultimately wise enough to see through it and will understand that this is ultimately all done for the purpose of denying the advent of the Asian century and prolonging a US-dominated world order at the expense of multipolarity... which of course isn't in India's best interests: they benefit from a prosperous region and a world that isn't "America first".