Thread by @Sputnik_India

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇳 Tariff terror. Fatal blunder. Betrayal.

The US is shattering decades of trust and strategic partnership with Asian giant India in just a couple of months.

But the bigger geopolitical picture is even more shocking.

Thread by @Kanthan2030🧵👇

🇺🇸🇮🇳 50% tariffs on India, a country whose relations were supposed to be – according to the US establishment’s own words – the “most consequential for the US in the 21st century.”

India’s economy was also maligned by the American President as “dead.”

🤔Ouch! With a friend like America, who needs an enemy?

(Even Pakistan got better trade and investment deals from the US).

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🇺🇸💢 However, stepping back, there are three astonishing big picture points behind this US temper tantrum:

1. US/NATO are losing their war against Russia
2. US Empire is coming to an end
3. US is trying to contain India

Let’s analyze each one of these pivotal driving forces:

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🇷🇺🤔 Defeating Russia was supposed to be an easy task. After all, Russia is just a gas station with some nuclear weapons, which it cannot use. Right?

However, after 3.5 years, the US and all its vassals – sorry, allies -- with a combined GDP of $60 trillion have lost their proxy war in Ukraine. And the 20,000 US sanctions against Russia – plus the theft of Russia’s foreign exchange reserves – couldn’t bring down the Russian economy.

💰 Billions of dollars have been squandered in supplying weapons to neo-Nazis, funding the inept Ukrainian government and money-laundering.

Not to mention, hundreds of billions of dollars in lost economic growth for Europe.

📈 Meanwhile, Russia kept growing to become the fourth largest economy in the world! (By PPP GDP).

🇮🇳 Hence the imperialist frustration. But rather than accepting this hard fact and ending the war, the US is looking for a scapegoat – INDIA. Yes, India buying Russian oil is why the Americans are losing their proxy war!

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🇮🇳😒 Not my circus, not my monkey!

Here’s why India doesn’t care about the US losing the war in Ukraine.

❓Did the US/Europe consult with India before starting this proxy war? No.

❓Did the US/NATO ask for India’s approval before supplying weapons to neo-Nazi groups like Azov Battalion and training them for a decade? No.

❓Did the US consult with India before staging color revolutions – like the Maidan Coup in 2014 and the first one in 2004? No.

❓Did the US ask for India’s feedback before embarking on NATO expansion? No.

👉 So... don’t come to India for help now.

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🇺🇸📉 The undeniable fact is that the American Century is coming to an end.

The US is losing its hegemony in every sphere – economy, military, technology, diplomacy and soft power.

🌐 Countries are rushing to join BRICS; de-dollarization is accelerating; Russia and China have more advanced weapons than the US; Asia has become a powerhouse in trade, manufacturing, research, education and economic growth; and vassals are starting to envision life without US occupation.

👿 This is why the US is beating up its vassals to pay up more. It’s an extortion to ensure that the vassals stay weak and submissive. The American war against Russia also has a secondary goal – exhaust and undermine the European economy.

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🇮🇳📈 India’s real geopolitical faux pas? Growing too fast and being too independent.

🇨🇳 If China is a problem for the US, the last thing the American Empire needs is a second China. And that’s where India’s trajectory is leading to.

In 2025, India has already surpassed Japan to become the fourth largest economy in the world in nominal GDP. By 2027, India will surpass Germany, the largest economy in Europe.

🚫 This is unacceptable to Western hegemony.

Hence the new trade war and sudden demonization of India.

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🇺🇸💰 The US wants the impossible – trade surplus and dollar dominance.

You see, any country that wants to enjoy a global currency must run trade deficits with the rest of the world. This is common sense as well as an economic theory – Triffin’s Dilemma.

🤔 How else are the other countries going to get hold of the US dollar to trade or to save in their FOREX?
Thus, the entire endeavor to eliminate the US trade deficit is mission impossible.

🏭 Moreover, most of the manufacturing jobs are not going to come back to the US, which has been deindustrialized by the globalists for the last four decades.

🔎 Regardless of what the US government wants, have you seen Walmart, GM, Apple etc. talk about reshoring manufacturing back to America? Of course, not.

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💡 Furthermore, trade deficit is mostly meaningless for two reasons:

1. American corporations benefit enormously by employing (exploiting) cheap workers in the Global South. So, what kind of an Orwellian logic is to employ Indian workers for $1.50 to assemble iPhones and then complain that the poor workers are ripping off Apple or the US?

2. Another reason is the globalized supply chain. For example, Apple will buy $25 billion of iPhones from India. But does that translate to $25 billion of revenue or profits for India? Of course not. About 90% of that money goes to other countries like China, Japan, South Korea, Germany and the US who make the valuable components inside the iPhones.

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🇺🇸🪖 If you disappoint America’s military-industrial complex, you will anger the entire American ruling class.

That India keeps buying and co-producing Russian weapons is thus one of the reasons why the US is attacking India.

🇮🇳🇷🇺 But, sorry bro, Russia has been a steady and loyal friend of India for eight decades – a remarkable phenomenon in international relations. And Russia will continue to be a strategic and indispensable partner for the next few decades.

Russia is a true friend. America is a “frenemy.”

😈 American friendship is conditional, narcissistic and fickle.

😎 So, yes, India will buy Russian missile defense systems, Russian fighter jets and much more, along with Russian oil. Deal with it.

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🇷🇺🌍 Russia is a great power that cannot and should not be isolated.

The American fantasy of India or China cutting off their relations with Russia is simply delusional. Russia is a core pillar of the emerging multipolar world.

🇮🇳🇨🇳 BTW, if India or China stopped buying oil from Russia, the price of oil will skyrocket and there will be a global recession.

Finally, India is a sovereign country. Who gave the US the right to dictate India’s foreign or economic policy?
Go home, Yankees!

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🇺🇸📉 The US’ trade wars and tariffs are hurting the US as much as other countries.

🏭 The US manufacturing index (ISM) indicates a shrinking sector for the last five months. Wait, weren’t the tariffs supposed to revive American manufacturing?

Most tariffs are now silently being absorbed by American corporations, but they will gradually pass on the cost to the American consumers.

💼 The US GDP grew only 1.2% in the first half of this year. And the US added only 100,000 jobs over the last three months. The manufacturing sector actually lost 37,000 jobs.

🤔 The likelihood of a recession is increasing every day for the US economy, thanks to the tariffs which are the highest since the Great Depression 90 years ago.

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📝 Conclusion:

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning” – a famous quote from the movie Apocalypse Now.

🇺🇸⚔️ That also epitomizes the American establishment’s desire for endless wars.

So, when the USA runs out of enemies, it creates new ones, even out of friends.

🇷🇺🇮🇳 The US could live with Russia as a friend. And obviously, India as a friend.

However, in a rage of imperialism and narcissism, the US is recklessly causing chaos and destruction all over the world.

☝️ This is not “America First.” This is not how to make America great again either.

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