The #FATFgreylist normalisation, the F16 package, this is just a Dem regime doing what they do best, push for closer ties with Pakistan. A thread.
1/n The pivot towards Pakistan started under LBJ, his administration explicitly wanted a weaker India. R Nixon then continued this policy.
Carter famously threatened to sanction us if we continued our nuclear experiments and even signed a presidential order
2/n banning export of fisile material to us. Carter initiated Op Cyclone that completely deprioritsed India over Pakistan.
Reagan righted this keel, they provided increased aid, military equipment, even high tech gas turbines for our indigenous vessels.
3/n Dubya Sr then took it to the next level (relative to what it was then), he pushed for the DTAA, approved sale of high speed computers for our space program, when a GoI entity took over a US firm operational in India, he purposely stayed away from intervention.
4/n Then came Clinton and his post Pokhran sanctions,
It was a R, Dubya who again thawed it out.
He did ban Modi from entry but Obama continued the policy and used the USCIRF to vehemently attack Modi and India. Dubya also pushed the landmark Nuclear treaty.
5/n Hillary and her pal Huma Abedin were and are virulently anti India. Under her advise Obama pumped in billions of $ into Pakiland as aid while it is Trump who has been cutting it.
Hillary hated India so much that on her first tour to Asia as a secy of state, she skipped India
6/n Obama hyphenated Kashmir with Pakistan unequivocally, restricted H1B visas. The first POTUS to do so.
His choice of Ambassador was Roemer, a strident advocate of the US negotiating a settlement on Kashmir which is against India's bilateral stand since the Shimla agreement.
7/n In the meantime, Obama gave out
• $ 7.5bn in aid to Pakistan in Oct 09,
• $3.5bn in 2010
• $3.5bn in 2011
When the Republicans wanted to block aid to Pakistan in 2016, Obama fought tooth and nail against it.
8/n Bill Clinton was another pro Pakistan, anti India Potus.
Clinton applied the super 301 clause choking many industries.
Reagan approved sale of Cray Super computers, Clinton blocked this.
Al Gore called Punjab, Khalistan
9/n Robin Rapahel a known India hater& Paki lover held a lot of power in the Dept of State. The is when the latest block 52 fighters were offered to Pakiland.
Bush imposed Pressler amendment on Pakiland that Rapahel helped repeal allowing full flow of arms & funds to Jihadland
10/n Bush had blocked monies paid for F16's which Clinton refunded in full.
Robin in her official capacity as Asst Secy of state literally questioned the Instrument of Accession and said India had to hold a plebiscite.
Clinton followed suit and raised this issue in the UN.
11/n Post the 93 Mumbai blasts, Republicans wanted Pakistan declared a state sponsor of terror. Rapahel convinced her boss Clinton to stand down.Clinton totally ignored these blasts then.
Rapahel + the Clinton administration insisted that India had to talk with Kashmiri jihadis
11/n Rapahel and her boss helped overtly and covertly the creation of the Hurriyat conference AND later insisted Delhi include this body in all negotiations.
Clinton's term 2 was no different. His secy of state, Albright hated India, wanted a plebiscite in Kashmir,
12/n supported Pakistan openly and was a turd to Indian interests while supporting Paki ones.
It was Bill Clinton that set up the shitty USCIRF (that had reps from all faiths but Hinduism, not sure if it is any different now) and used it to beat India.
13/n Fun bonus - Joe Biden sponsored a law in 1991 that promised aid to Russia IF it stopped the sale of cryogenic engines to India.
Every Democrat president after Kennedy has been anti India, anti Hindu and pro Pakistan and pro Jihad
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