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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2/n remove these from the OOB and Rommel would have reached the Suez within a month after he landed.
Then you have the rear elements, the RIASC (Indian service corps) basically the drivers, mechanics, mule drivers,camel drivers formed the back bone of the 8th army supply chain
3/n again, remove this and the 8th army would not have had food, fuel, water or ammo.
Then the Indian labour units, 70% of the labour force in North Africa including in the ports of Suez and Alexandria, 10's of thousands served here.
It's not the gas chambers that were the real killers (I mean they did kill 7-9 mn total on the Holocaust) but in absolute terms it was the "Hunger plan". Formulated by this bureaucrat, it essentially called for not feeding Slavic peoples and letting famine and epidemics kill them
2/n the Germans managed to kill around 12-14 mn Slavs with this method but the Raj? It killed close to 50-60 mn in famines and another 30-40 mn in epidemics (which starving people are greater prey to) meaning the Raj achieved kill rates of 80-100 mn in just 3 decades
3/n a study of our pop in this period will establish the genocide visited upon India.
As you can see, the period 1891 to 1901 saw 89 mn excess mortality (India at 13% growth rate should have been at 327 mn but is at 238 mn. That's the equivalent of 10 holocausts
Everyone talks about the England French, French Prussian / German rivalry but this Siam vs Khmer feud has been going on for centuries now! A brief thread.
1/n It all started with a war over the Khmer vassal state of Luov, which was annexed after 30 years of fighting in 1350. Around this time the Thai (Siem) shifted their capital from Sukothai to Ayutta which was much closer to Angkor.
2/n From 1350-1430 it was a near endless war, mostly triggered by an expansionist Siem. In 1420 though the Khmer under a very aggressive king defeated multiple Siem armies and even tried to push their way into Ayuta itself.
When the US almost sanctioned India into oblivion thanks to Nehru's stupidity, utter, gobsmackingly low IQ stupidity. A thread about when he greenlit Thorium sales to China....
2/ The export was conducted by a PSU—likely Indian Rare Earths Ltd.—and had an explicit license from the Government of India.
Customs in Mumbai were instructed to clear the cargo without delay. There was no ambiguity. This was a state-approved sale of nuclear-grade material to
3/ Communist China—barely years before the 1962 war. The United States caught wind of the shipment.
The U.S. ambassador in Delhi urgently approached Nehru and asked him to recall the consignment.
1/n In the 1890s, James Hill—an Anglo coffee baron—bribed his way into El Salvador’s government.
With US backing, he helped privatize all land.
Why?
Because El Salvador’s soil was so fertile, people didn’t need wages to eat.
That was bad for profit.
2/n Land that once grew wild food for all was now sold to 12 Anglo coffee companies, Hill’s being the largest.
But there was a problem:
People still had access to food. So Hill made plantation rules:
If a worker ate a fruit off a tree, they were guilty of theft and shot.
July 1, 2003 1 lakh govt employees including some 15k teachers went on strike. The iron lady of TN (for all her corruption I miss her steady stewardship) Jaya said nothing.
2 all the employees, get back to work and then we will talk.
They, motivated by the DMK unions said no.
2 weeks later she overnight sacked 1.7l, arrested 10,000, invoked ESMA hired 1,000's of temp workers.
3 weeks later the unions collapsed, surrendered (some shamelessly
3 Threw herself at her feet). The SC hearing the case threw it out, supported her stance but asked her to take the employees back in a sign of magnanimity.
But you know the aftermath?
Despite running the best govt in TN history (deficit under control, promoted fdi