It's interesting that people in countries that have not been reliable partners of India are surprised that India isn't blindly supporting them
Lets dee these meltdowns in detail
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Indian liberals and western liberal meltdown happening on India’s decision to abstain and to remain neutral in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
Before I even start, it's very important to recognize that two things can come true at once.
What Russia is doing in Ukraine is illegal and a war crime
It is an invasion of a sovereign country.
At the same time, India has every right to remain neutral in the conflict.
First, India has a very deep defence relationship with Russia. Is the West going to replace all those weapons for free?
Plus, The West has never stood with India. US and UK passed a resolution to oppose the liberation of Goa from Portuguese colonialism
Who supported India? Russia did(which was then USSR), who vetoed the vote
They did not stand with India during the 1971 war
Russia supported India by deploying submarines in the Bay of Bengal, when the US and UK were preparing to help Pakistan defeat India.
The west did not support India’s claim on Jammu and Kashmir(POK)
They did not stand with India during the Kashmiri Hindu genocide and 30 years of Pakistan sponsored terrorism in Kashmir,
they did not stand with India during Chinese aggression(Galwan) against India’s borders.
So India has every right to be neutral during this war.
In fact, they have gone a step further to ask Putin to resolve this peacefully, and to send supplies to Ukraine as well
This is clearly a complex situation
But Indian and Western liberals have no interest in understanding complexity
Indians want likes from Westerners on social media
Westerners are angry that how dare a former slave nation dare to defy the West?
At the same time, it's important to distinguish between Western governments and Western journalists and “experts”
Western governments understand that India is in a complex situation with Russia
But Indian and Western commentators who have turned from COVID experts into foreign policy experts overnight are the ones having a meltdown
Prashant Bhushan and Boxing champion Rajdeep Sardesai both saying that what India has done is shameful
Those that think India is a fascist country will obviously believe that India looking after its interests is wrong
They want India to pick sides, Despite the fact that Ukraine was against Indians conducting nuclear tests, which is probably one of the only things preventing a Chinese invasion of India.
Despite the fact that Ukraine, still continues to supply weapons to Pakistan
So if Ukraine refuses to pick a side in this conflict, why should India?
cartoonists are really sad that India wants to actually takes care of its own interests
People that don’t know the difference between Mulund and Poland
They have become foreign policy experts overnight
Mahua Moitra Ji who gets foreign policy lessons from the film war:
Who doesn't even know what languages are spoken in Kashmir
Are lecturing India about foreign policy
Srinivasan jain is so desperate
Sadanand Dhume who did not want Hindus to get their temples back
and who called CAA a Muslim ban
says India’s relinquishing its secular values because it will not vote against Russia
And then come the angry Westerners
English Rakhi Sawant wanted attention on Twitter and said that the UK spends 55.3 million pound to India every year, we should take it back if India doesn’t support the West.
Another guy was getting upse
But the reply underneath was amazing.
Someone said, we don’t even need the aid anymore.
The guy said send it back.
And then someone posted a photo of the Queen’s Crown with the Kohinoor diamond that was stolen from India and said: Keep The change
British people trying to dictate terms to India is funny.
Your empire has ended. See Britain is like the actress that was a big deal 30 years ago
and is now devastating her face with plastic surgery or making dumb comments in the media to try and stay relevant.
Also, by the way, 55% of the world, the majority, either abstained or voted against West
But the west says that the whole world sides with them and India is opposing them
A US journalist says that its shameful that Ind8a will not take sides with the West
A person whose country has toppled so many governments in Latin America, Iran, Middle Eastern countries. They are lecturing India on democracy e
This is like rakhi Swant complaining about girls wearing really small clothes
One person is calling for Mahabharata to try to get India to vote against Russia
This is what happens when you learn about Indian culture from Vision IAS
The biggest point in Mahabharata is to follow one’s dharma
India’s Dharma is to look after its interests and the safety of Indian students stuck in Ukraine
Because of India’s neutral stance, it has been able to create safe passages for Indian students out of Ukraine
And The West is lecturing India on its stance when there are many credible reports coming out that there is racism happening against Indian and african students in Ukraine
who are not being allowed to board trains to leave Ukraine as people are prioritising white Ukrainians
Some people are reporting that Western leaders have been very angry India deciding to be neutral in the conflict
Char chawanni ghode pe their anger on my
Again, if you want support from India, its actually very easy
Support India’s claim on J&K, ask Pakistan to vacate
Ask China to vacate AKsai Chin
And replace the weapons that we receive from Russia(photo), which still supplies 49% of India’s weapons.
and release a statement that India’s territorial sovereignty will be defended by the west
Easy? Deal or no deal?
There is an attempt to single out India as being the only neutral party
but as I said before, representatives of 56% of the world's population is either neutral or against the West in this situation
Israel and the Gulf oil sheikhdoms have taken a neutral or nuanced stand
US's neighbor Mexico, US ally Philippines, and several Latin American states including Brazil are also being neutral
so why single out India?
India must forge its own path
and if they have learned anything from this, is that it needs to depend upon itself.
the priority for India must weapons indigenization, as it buys weapons from other countries currently