Thread by @gauravsabnis

In case you're wondering why Modi MEA has been extra whiny and shrill about what the Prime Minister of Singapore said in his own parliament, this is President Halimah Yacob of Singapore.

Can you guess why bhakts don't like her? I'll give you a hint. It's not the glasses.

Also reminds me of something a DC insider told me recently. That a VERY high percentage of hate on Rep. Ilhan Omar's social media comes from India on a daily basis. Can you guess why? I'll give you a hint. It is not because the movie Fargo made them scared of Minnesota.

Rep. Omar is a superhero so not like it affects her. But it is starting to come to the notice of more and more people "inside the beltway" how much of a growing role the BJP's IT cell trolls are starting to take in US politics. People are mentioning parallels to Russia.

Inside beltway folks went from confused to amused to concerned about why bhakts are working so hard to make enemies in the Democratic Party in the United States. The party that (barely) controls the white House, house, and Senate. And it's obviously coming from BJP directly.

The one big country in Asia the US military-industrial complex hasn't actively screwed over is India. Nixon tried, but the Bangladesh war ended before the seventh fleet reached the bay of Bengal.

Don't bhakts get how lucky India is in that regard?

Why are y'all poking the bear?

I'm no history scholar, but I'll stick my neck out and say that nothing good has ever come out of coming to the attention of the United States federal government.

And bhakts, for bafflingly bizarre reasons, seem hell-bent on picking a fight with Democrats in America.

It is starting to feel like BJP is pointlessly and needlessly picking a fight with American liberals, not fully comprehending the downsides of that engagement.

Really, bhakts, why are you poking the bear? America is the war GOAT.

Come to think of it, not just in Asia, but worldwide! No other major country has been spared by the United States military industrial complex like India has been spared.

But Modi seems to think the only way to win elections is to pick a fight with the Pentagon. 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️

Every time you read a WhatsApp forward from a bhakt bashing USA, please remember that they are basically trying to start a bizarre asymmetric cold war with USA, just to win some elections.

Modi is extremely stupid, in case you didn't notice.

The American military-industrial complex would love nothing more than an ongoing USA-India war for the rest of this century. And that's what Amit Malviya seems to be aiming for.

I promise you as an American in NYC in 2022, I'm going to do my best to troll and annoy the fuck out of all these "nationalists".

What bhakts hate the most is that the general American civil society isn't as proudly pro-schutzsstafel as Amit shah would like it to be

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