India in 2003 was rule by the Hindutvadi party BJP which is also the fascist party ruling now. In 2003 that single Indian soldier wasn't deployed to Iraq in support of the USA-and-British-governments-led illegal, imperialist and genocidal invasion not because the Indian government suddenly developed humanity and "didn't bow down to US soft pressure / enticement" but because of wide protests in India against the BJP government's : (a). Lust to kill Muslims, even foreign ones ( though in Iraq there are Christians and others too ), (b). Unquenchable desire to be in perpetual service of Western governments, something that started with Marathas, Nairs and so on during British East India Company times in a combined fight against the radically progressive Muslim leader Tipu Sultan, (c). To help destroy Socialism - Iraq being governed by the Socialist Baath movement.
I am not at all casting the Indian army as a uniformly mercenary force in the service of Hindutvad, Capitalism, NATO and mindless nationalist tribalism and you will see me in a later paragraph cheering for retired Indian military officers who wrote letters to the country's president asking for immediate action against the Hindutvization of the Indian military.
But I start with this : In 2003, 17,000 Indian army soldiers were ready in the barracks to go to Iraq at a moment's notice and help the USA-and-British-governments-led alliance murder Saddam, his supporters and the Iraqi people. Seven years prior, the then American government Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright,
was asked in a TV interview :
Her reply : "Worth it". So the Indian army commanders who would be working in Iraq under the command of the government militaries of USA, Britain, Australia, Poland and it is said Ukraine, these Indian army commanders and their subordinates would be murdering Iraqis for what exactly ? How had Iraq and Iraqis wronged India that the Indian army became ready to participate alongside the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization in war against Iraq ? Secondly, the Indian army commanders and their subordinates did not care for the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children that happened only because of the Western government invasion of Iraq in 1990 and the illegal sanctions after. It is easily understood that BJP government in 2003 would be very happy murdering Iraqis because of its dominant Muslim population and also Christians to go on the side, just like it wants to enable Hindutvadi genocide of two million Muslims at the earliest as declared in the Dharam Sansad in Haridwar last December, but why was Indian army participating in the 2003 Bush and B'liar genocidal war against the Iraqis, against humanity ?
This is the result of USA military massively and ruthlessly bombarding Iraq with depleted uranium bullets and shells :
Whichever Indian army commanders easily agreed to BJP government's command to deploy to Iraq, would they want their children to suffer like the child above ? But what should one say of the Indian army which supported the Hindutvadi terrorist, Colonel Shrikant Purohit, who was involved in the Malegaon bombing of 2008 which killed 37 Muslims and injured 100+ ? The indian army stood by him during the trial
in his own words :
This terrorist was released by Modi government in 2017 just like it released on this year's India's Independence Day the 11 Hindutvadis who gangraped a pregnant Bilkis Bano in 2002 in Gujarat and smashed the head of her 3-year-old daughter on a rock and killed 13 more members of her family when the family was escaping from the Gujarat anti-Muslim pogrom. And
this is from online magazine The Caravan :
How was Col Purohit able to get RDX explosives from Indian army stocks and continue training the Hindutvadi terrorists in that conspiracy despite being a military officer and on top of that he being in military intelligence ? From the same source :
And then in August 2017 he was released from Taloja jail later infamous for housing intellectuals / progressives and he reported back to the same army intelligence unit where he worked before his arrest. The army took him back willingly.
He was provided security upon his release :
So the person who killed 37 people and injured 100+, most being Muslims, is not only supported by the Indian army during his trial but also taken back into his old army intelligence unit after his release that was enabled by BJP and Modi, and then provided security to him when he is the murderer and terrorist !
And why is the army not doing anything about the open calls by Hindutvadis especially since December 2021 in successive Dharam Sansads to genocide two million Muslims at the earliest followed by genocides of Christians and Communists ? The Indian army has vast resources, part of the Indian military which is among the two largest importer of armaments in the world. If these resources can be deployed to keep forces in Kashmir then they can also be deployed to bring secularism and progressiveness in India. The army cannot hide under the umbrella of "We are not a political organization" while around them the country burns down with genocides.
And then decades before this, the Indian army participating alongside NATO in the NATO invasion of DPRK ( North Korea ) in the Korea War of 1950-53. Bhakts / Indian nationalists will excuse away this participation saying the Indian army soldiers were a medical unit. However, military medical units are trained in arms so this Indian army medical unit would have been helping NATO kill the North Koreans and the Chinese and Soviets who were supporting North Korea. Secondly, this Indian army medical unit would have been treating the wounds of the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization which had invaded North Korea / DPRK. This is as much Indian army declaring war on DPRK / North Korea. For what ? Was it because DPRK sought to implement Communism and was a welfare-based and reorganized society while India has been an extremely Capitalist and irrational society since 3000 years ago when Hindus came into India from Iran and created a codified system of castes, extremest misogyny, extremest Capitalism and feudalism ? I am not saying I hate Hindus as human existences, I have Hindu friends whether on PDF or offline and this makes me opposite to Muslim members like
@hussain0216 who constantly talk about "He Hindu, kill him".
The Indian army of course has and has had humane people who questioned various policies of the top brass and who had to unwillingly participate in many wrong things in service. Whether this be those 150 retired military officers including service chiefs
who wrote a joint letter to the country's president in 2019 and complained about the assimilation of India's military into Hindutvadi forces through such things as Yogi Adityanath calling the military as "Modi ji ki sena" ( Mr. Modi's military ), or retired army colonel Ashok Kumar Singh who supported actress Richa Chaddha who had tweeted "Galwan says Hi" as reply for a bombastic, jingoist statement by a very senior army commander about readiness to invade Pakistan at the command of the government. Col. Ashok said :
So I condemn the wrong history and current of the Indian military but also acknowledge that it had and maybe has good people who reject the notion that the Indian military cannot be criticized, that it is one more untouchable and holy addition to the pantheon of 330 million Hindu gods and goddesses.
Musharraf raided Lal Masjid with commitment. Waiting for an Indian army general to raid offices of Bajrang Dal, Sri Ram Sena, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, Vishwa Hindu Parishad etc.
What to do, I am a serious person, whether in posting female admiration imagery or preaching World Communism.
You have rightly used the words "with some Ukrainians" because Russian army never had brotherly bonds with UkroNazis and Ukrainian nationalists, both categories one and the same really. Some months ago, before my self-exile, I had posted an article about the unspeakable atrocities inflicted by Ukrainian nationalists on Polish people during World War 2 and the article spoke about the Ukrainian nationalists continuing their evil to the 2014 events and to the beginning of the Russian operation. These are evil people, who did the same to Poles, to Russian soldiers and to non-Nazi Ukrainian dissenters what the Hindutvadis in Gujarat state in India did to the Muslims there in 2002 and for which the then chief minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, was banned from entered USA until 2014 when he became the prime minister. My posting of the article about Ukrainian nationalists was removed and I warned.
So no brotherly bonds of the Russian army with Ukrainian nationalists. Would have been disappointing if there were bonds.
I existed in India in 2003 and know this directly. However, you could have simply googled and found
this among other articles :
So almost all in the BJP government were very willing to send the Indian army to Iraq, and Indian army commanders also were willing as were the Hindutvadi former military officers like Satish Nambiar and political analysts who sat in "think tanks" but the people and opposition parties rejected the deployment because of which those 17,000 Indian army soldiers did not go to Iraq to fight against Iraqis.
Not really. Many in that 1.4 billion Indian population support the UkroNazis and nationalists. These will be right-wingers among Hindus who are ever in service of NATO, and right-wingers among Muslims who see Russia as the successor to the ebeel Communist USSR, and both reasons are true of right-wing Indian Christians.
In March this year, a few days after the Ukraine operation began, one of the "Godi Media" Hindutvadi propaganda and society destruction TV channels, Republic TV, had its notorious celebrity anchor Arnab Goswami declaring in a panel talk show the same words that Zelensky spoke and the White House spoke. But on the panel was a senior expert from Lisbon, Portugal whose name i don't remember now but what i know is that he was an academic and businessman during USSR times who did business with USSR. Go through
this page to watch a short clip on how he first schooled Arnab on Arnab's perpetual bullying of his talk show guests and then the Lisbon expert told Arnab that he was talking the tongue of Zelensky and White House and that Russia is in war with NATO and should Russia win it is India as well as China that will benefit so Arnab by opposing Russia was going against the benefit of his own country, India. The article also shows the reactions of sensible Indians to this episode.
Not "under consideration" but a decided thing with those 17,000 soldiers waiting in the barracks ready to go but it was the people and the opposition parties who forced the government to cancel the deployment.
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