I would strongly consider how white supremacism and colourism is deeply ingrained into the upper classes of India, and the material conditions, ie the relationships these classes have with western nations and non-western nations, that affords them this.
India since independance has long history (and I would say even before Independance when Gandhi suggested that India remain a protectorate of the British Empire) of knee bending to the West despite any rhetoric (egregious example: Indira Gandhi despite all her western interviews and erudite anti-western rhetoric was more than happy to engage CIA help to topple home grown communist movements), and it is difficult to imagine a present timeline where India would have apparently chosen their own sovereignity without Chinese and Russians showing a backbone.
I mean we already have concrete evidence, as I noted earlier, with the Russian oil trade. You have to apply material thinking to the situation. Trade with BRICS is creating a lot of wealth for the oligarchs in India, and they’re becoming a powerful political force in turn. Meanwhile, as the US economy continues to decline, the oligarchs invested in the US are starting to find that they’re not getting the returns they used to get. So, the economic gravity necessarily shifts away from the US and towards BRICS where development opportunities are. Russia and China created the economic niche with BRICS, but now that it exists, India is pulled towards it.
I fail to see in each of the examples you have highlighted that if it weren’t for the Russians and Chinese what internal mechanisms (sincerely asking; happy to be enlightened here) within India would have got them to actively invest money in developing the trade they now have, especially at the risk of irking Western Ire. It was way easier for Indian oligarchs when presented the option of easy money from Russian oil, and USAmerican vassals willing to purchase this Indian processed oil, to then continue with that development when faced with a declining West.
Where was, for example, the 5 or 10 year Indian plans on significant diversification of Indian economy away from the West before the Ukraine War or even Chinese ASEAN trade agreements?
You can see why I am reluctant to “credit” India on their new found soverignity when their hands was forced by others. They just didn’t have the privileged ignorance (read NATO and US intelligence integration) of Expected White Solidarity of the Europeans to engage in that level of economic suicde, and it was not for lack of trying as displayed by Modi’s subservience when interacting with the West.
I’m not arguing that Russia and China aren’t the principal architects of BRICS. What I’m saying that Indian leadership had the brains to take advantage of trading with BRICS which gave India options that vassals like the EU don’t have today. India would prefer to stay in the western camp, but since the US is putting unacceptable demands on India, they’re able to pivot towards their other option.
Nowhere am I arguing that India is in some way principled. They’re simply being opportunistic, but that’s precisely where the tension with the US emerges. And that’s why I expect the split between the west and India to continue to grow.
I would strongly consider how white supremacism and colourism is deeply ingrained into the upper classes of India, and the material conditions, ie the relationships these classes have with western nations and non-western nations, that affords them this.
India since independance has long history (and I would say even before Independance when Gandhi suggested that India remain a protectorate of the British Empire) of knee bending to the West despite any rhetoric (egregious example: Indira Gandhi despite all her western interviews and erudite anti-western rhetoric was more than happy to engage CIA help to topple home grown communist movements), and it is difficult to imagine a present timeline where India would have apparently chosen their own sovereignity without Chinese and Russians showing a backbone.
I mean we already have concrete evidence, as I noted earlier, with the Russian oil trade. You have to apply material thinking to the situation. Trade with BRICS is creating a lot of wealth for the oligarchs in India, and they’re becoming a powerful political force in turn. Meanwhile, as the US economy continues to decline, the oligarchs invested in the US are starting to find that they’re not getting the returns they used to get. So, the economic gravity necessarily shifts away from the US and towards BRICS where development opportunities are. Russia and China created the economic niche with BRICS, but now that it exists, India is pulled towards it.
I fail to see in each of the examples you have highlighted that if it weren’t for the Russians and Chinese what internal mechanisms (sincerely asking; happy to be enlightened here) within India would have got them to actively invest money in developing the trade they now have, especially at the risk of irking Western Ire. It was way easier for Indian oligarchs when presented the option of easy money from Russian oil, and USAmerican vassals willing to purchase this Indian processed oil, to then continue with that development when faced with a declining West.
Where was, for example, the 5 or 10 year Indian plans on significant diversification of Indian economy away from the West before the Ukraine War or even Chinese ASEAN trade agreements?
You can see why I am reluctant to “credit” India on their new found soverignity when their hands was forced by others. They just didn’t have the privileged ignorance (read NATO and US intelligence integration) of Expected White Solidarity of the Europeans to engage in that level of economic suicde, and it was not for lack of trying as displayed by Modi’s subservience when interacting with the West.
I’m not arguing that Russia and China aren’t the principal architects of BRICS. What I’m saying that Indian leadership had the brains to take advantage of trading with BRICS which gave India options that vassals like the EU don’t have today. India would prefer to stay in the western camp, but since the US is putting unacceptable demands on India, they’re able to pivot towards their other option.
Nowhere am I arguing that India is in some way principled. They’re simply being opportunistic, but that’s precisely where the tension with the US emerges. And that’s why I expect the split between the west and India to continue to grow.
Fair enough. Agreed