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hello and welcome to today's episode my name is sham sharma the ceo of secularism
thank you very much for watching today's episode and to all of you
a secular pranam so i thought this video needed to be done in english because the topic of this video
consists of western experts' opinions about india's decision to continue to do trade with
russia despite western sanctions so i thought if we're talking about the west let's try to respond
in their language so welcome back to the 1950s guys rock and roll music is the new sensation
sweeping the world a cold war has started and brown people are apparently not allowed to do
things that europeans can freely do we know that russia has launched an illegal invasion of ukraine
which has led to hundreds of civilian casualties and potentially thousands of military casualties
in ukraine now western countries have announced a number of sanctions on russia and are actively
discouraging other countries from doing any trade with russia or buying any oil from russia however
india like many other key american allies like israel like uae like mexico have taken a much
more nuanced approach when it comes to russia where they are making sure that their interests
and the interests of their people are taken care of india has announced that despite the dictats
of western countries india will continue energy and weapons trade with russia in both sectors
russia historically has been a very important and reliable partner of india so following that policy
india last week received russian foreign minister sergey lavrov to discuss bilateral trade and this
has upset a lot of western commentators who have then proceeded to throw their toys out their prams
now listen i do have to preface this video by saying that on the whole western governments
have been much more responsible than western commentators with the comments that they have
made about india's foreign policy they said that they understand that the world is complicated
and countries often have to look out for their interests this is exactly what uk's
foreign secretary said we respect other countries decisions about the issues that they face you know
india is a sovereign nation i'm not going to tell india what to do the same thing was said by the
chief of the u.s mission to india what i would say is that that we understand that the relationship
that india has with russia is very different than the relationship that the united states
has with russia and what we have been asking is not just india but all other
countries that have a relationship with russia to use that leverage for constructive purposes
to build better relationships with each other the us and india are looking to hold a two plus two
meeting of diplomatic and defense chiefs for early april as the united states is aiming to bolster
defense ties with new delhi so it seems that governments do understand that there is nuance
when it comes to handling foreign policy however it's the think tanks the media the quote unquote
experts who are desperate to create hostilities between india and the west who can't believe that
a foreign country particularly a poor country like india would disobey what they have to say i mean
i'm from the west i'm in a think tank i have 19 000 followers on twitter and i have the
ukrainian flag in my twitter header that means you're supposed to listen to me that's how these
things work the washington post says that modi's supporters are spreading anti-ukraine pro-russian
propaganda first of all pointing out that western countries particularly the united states have been
engaged in carrying out regime change operations like the one that russia is currently involved in
in ukraine that's not propaganda that's just the truth what the united states has done in iraq
syria libya and many latin american countries is not radically different from what russia is doing
in ukraine secondly i'm not sure how much right an organization that called abu bakr al-baghdadi
an austere religious scholar has in accusing other people of spreading propaganda it's a bit like
kunal kamra accusing other comedians of not being funny seriously washington post at this point in
time is such a meme newspaper in india that they would honestly use it as toilet paper but you know
they like to wash another gentleman is saying that what india is doing is absolutely disgusting and
in a quote tweet a person who attended one critical cast theory lecture in a left-wing
college in america and now consider themselves an india expert basically said that it's all the
brahmin's fault oh really so on behalf of all the brahmins all i'd like to say is cope more, b!tch
another so-called india expert said that india is basically proving itself to be unreliable
oh really india is unreliable was it india who asked ukraine to hand over its nukes and promised
to protect ukraine was it india who conducted a regime change operation in ukraine in 2014
with the help of neo-nazi groups was it india who constantly goaded ukraine into joining nato
knowing that it would anger russia and then when russia attacked completely abandoned
ukraine man i guess that could have been india i honestly thought that was another country but
it's been such a long time who remembers these things some people are saying that india
is on the wrong side of history and that united states and indian relations are going to go down
the toilet they're also saying that no one should kid themselves russia is going to be the junior
partner in this relationship with china and the more leverage that china gains over russia the
less favorable that is for india i mean seriously this gentleman is really living up to his surname
gross man and this tweet really shows how much these quote-unquote experts actually know about
the countries that they're supposed to be experts on the reality is that russia becoming a junior
partner of china is a much bigger problem for the united states than it is for india this
greatly strengthens the number one enemy of the united states remember india has no interest in
challenging the united states it is china that is challenging the united states so at a time
when you should be building coalitions against china you have foreign policy experts that are
asking the united states to ruin relationship with a potentially key ally that can help you
encircle china in asia you're you're a [ __ ] idiot and when it comes to these experts when
threats don't work you can always revert back to good old-fashioned casual racism one gentleman is
telling people to remember how terrible indians are every time you decide to patronize an indian
restaurant in your city and sadly such idiotic comments weren't just being made by these think
tank people or the media Daleep singh american deputy national security adviser said on a recent
trip to india that there could be consequences for india for circumventing russian sanctions don't
think anyone would believe that if china again breached the line of actual control that russia
would come running to india's defense okay but will you come to india's defense did you for that
matter come to india's defense in 2020 when china did cross the line of actual control did you come
to india's help in 1999 did you come to india's help in 1971 in fact if i remember correctly in
the 1971 war with pakistan the united states and the united kingdom were actively trying to defeat
india and it was russia's intervention that helped india and also remember that for 50 years the
united states has funded and supported the biggest enemies of indian democracy and then you wonder
why india is just a little bit suspicious of you this is like yaseen malik wondering
why are kashmiri hindus not being nice to me it's a complete mystery similar attacks are also
happening on indians who are in high political positions in britain like rishi sunak there's
also an attempt to attack indian companies like infosys by calling it a russian-based company
how is it a russian-based company infosys is a company started by an indian in india which
gets 90 percent of its revenue from the united states and the european union it gets one percent
of its revenue from russia how does that make it a russian based company see i lived in new
zealand for three years and i would often travel to india on vacations while flying back and forth
from india my flight would often have a layover in singapore so if i had a layover in singapore
and i took a [ __ ] in the singapore airport does that now mean that i'm from singapore i mean look
if it makes you feel better we can get somebody in india to make the same poem on putin that a
girl in america had made dear president vladimir putin i'm so sorry that i was not your mother
if i was your mother you would have been so loved in fact we have a guy that's really good at dumb
[ __ ] like that all of these attacks in india by the way are happening over very small quantities
of oil even though india imports about eighty percent of its oil requirements only two percent
of its total oil imports come from russia and this is happening at a time when other countries have
also publicly stated that they will continue to buy russian oil and gas in fact india isn't even
in the top 10 importers of russian oil and gas there are six nato members that are in the top 10
biggest importers of russian oil coal and gas to make matters worse since the war began
the european union has spent 17 billion euros in importing russia oil and gas in fact europe
bought 15 more oil and gas from russia after the war began apparently according to reports
the united states has also ramped up purchase of this so-called banned russian oil i mean this is
completely hypocritical this is like the catholic church complaining about child abuse and all these
experts that are currently talking about how india should be ashamed and how india should
be sanctioned and shunned are any of these experts going to speak the same language about china china
is another country that has not condemned russia and in fact according to ukrainian intelligence
china staged a huge cyber attack on ukraine's military and nuclear facilities just before the
russian attack ukrainian intelligence suggests that china is complicit in russia's war against
ukraine so despite this massive bombshell will china be sanctioned for aiding and abetting
russian war crimes in ukraine will these western commentators ask their countries to stop all trade
with china will they ask western corporations to stop all of their operations in china will
china be sanctioned for taking thousands of american jobs will china be sanctioned for
sending cheap fentanyl into the united states that is killing thousands of americans every year will
china be sanctioned for hiding the seriousness of the COVID outbreak will china be sanctioned
for debt-trapping countries and essentially turning them into chinese economic colonies
no not this time in fact it's the opposite you have giant american corporations like disney that
are spending billions of dollars to expand into homophobic countries like china while they're
virtue signaling in their own countries about bloody pronouns so you're worried more about a
stable democracy than a volatile dictatorship in china this is basically like if during world war
ii people were more interested about the price of swiss cheese than about bloody hitler see western
countries and western companies are still willing to work with china because western governments and
western corporations understand that the world is a complicated place and that sometimes you have to
deal with less than perfect characters in order to make sure that you are taken care of and that
your people are taken care of and that's exactly what india is doing for india there's a massive
opportunity here crude prices are at all time highs and india has the opportunity to receive
oil and gas at substantially discounted prices this is a country that despite having the fifth
to seventh largest economy in the world depending on who you want to believe is still a relatively
poor country and so the ability to save money and then use that money into other governmental
programs is much more important to a country like india than to a country let's say like
the united states and also the way the west has weaponized swift banking google pay apple pay in
its sanctions towards russia which can completely [ __ ] a country's ability to do business
you can't really fault india for not wanting to be completely dependent on the west look i think
the experts and the commentators and the media might not but i think on the governmental level
people do understand that the united states should build a better relationship with india to find a
solution between ukraine and russia both of which countries have said that they'd be willing to have
india mediate talks between russia and ukraine but a deeper relationship between the united states
and india is also needed to counter the rise of china we have seen recently with russia with china
and with the current pakistani army orchestrated regime change operation in pakistan that democracy
is a very scarce commodity on the planet the west and india have so many commonalities
on democracy freedom security trade the free market than to get bogged down by a situation that
india did not start and had no control over again on a governmental level people seem to understand
this right now a provisional free trade agreement has been signed between australia and india india
and the united states are also working together to develop a stronger quad to counter china and
i hope that this trend of intergovernmental cooperation between india and the western
countries continues and this process is not handicapped by short-sighted experts and media who
think the world should revolve around them and who in all honesty couldn't even point out india on a
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