Why is anyone surprised, India has ALWAYS been a vassal state of the west. When the white man says 'jump', it's vassal states say 'how high sir'. This is exactly why we always look down on Indians as low class people because India is a defeated nation in our eyes controlled by the west as a vassal state. Next step will be military bases built in India by the Yankee military. It's only natural for vassal states.
They've gone into the US camp now, a bit too much I agree. but to say always, is just being dishonest to yourself unless you`re truly an ignoramus with regards to modern history.
The years 1971-72. What were the ground realities? we facilitated the Mao-Nixon rapprochement, which marked the beginning of serious cooperation from strategic and economic spheres between China & US, against their common threat in the Soviet Union and its junior lieutenant, India.
Read about Nixon's visit to China in '72 and its geopolitical significance.
Whereas the US relationship with India at the time was perhaps the
worst it had ever been in history. they along with Britain, sent naval forces to try and protect East Pakistan from a blockade + invasion, and seriously considered engaging Indian assets but backed off due to Soviet presence. It was basically US, China and Pakistan on one side, and Soviet Union + India on the other.
This is a conversation between Nixon and Kissinger during the 71 war:
Indians are "a slippery, treacherous people", said president Richard Nixon. "The
Indians are bastards anyway. They are the most aggressive goddamn people around," ... Kissinger's assessment [of Indira Gandhi]: "While
she was a bit*h, we got what we wanted" ... Replied Nixon: "We really slobbered over the
old witch."
Source
To me Indira Gandhi was a dictatorial lunatic, who was responsible for deaths of thousands in the country she invaded as well as her own people. but her anti-Americanism and iron-fisted foreign policy (a mirror image of her domestic policy) could only be denied by an ignoramus.
when has China, even in Mao's time, upset the US enough to have their leaders in office call the Chinese 'bastards' or 'bit*h'. think about that. oh wait, Mao was closely allied with US whilst they fought alongside KMT against Japan.
Even today, the largest economic relationship of the world is proof in itself, where Americans live comfortably from cheap goods made in the factory that is China. they print off money in thin air, issue treasuries which China and Japan happily accept, and then devalue their currency through inflationary "stimulus" every now and again, which would eventually render your trillions in reserves useless unless you diversify quickly into hard metals/basket of other currencies.
calling someone a vassal state, therefore, is stretching it a bit and very telling of one's mental capacity. unless all countries in Asia make a serious effort to disengage from US both economically and politically, everyone will just keep presenting it as the bogeyman exclusively in bed with all others, but silently dealing with it, behind closed doors, for their own interests. there is not a single country in this region that is an exception to this.
