President Joe Biden told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that buying more oil from Russia was not in India's interest and could hamper the U.S. response to the war in Ukraine, U.S. officials said.
Funny because right up to the age of colonialism, aliens visiting earth would probably spend their time with the most "civilized" places - India, China, Tenochtitlan, etc. Western Europe was an irrelevant, "underdeveloped" backwater. There's some story about some of the initial contact between W. Europe and India, I think around the middle of the 15th century. The Europeans brought like shitty linens and they thought they could trade them for like gems and stuff, and the Indians just laughed at them.
It's a fascinating contrast. Everyone hated Trump but at the end of the day absolutely none of the US' vassal states in Europe ever stood up to him or his admin. Now with this war, at least we have some countries in the global south telling Biden to pound sand. I love it.
And for decades the west have jeered at India's self sufficiency as "backward" and "holding them back", but now we're seeing its fruit: the west have little to no leverage over India, and they can't go with the usual route because India is a nuclear power.
Watching westoids sheeting and malding in the past few weeks over India just doing their own thing have been greatly entertaining.
"YOU HAVE BETRAYED THE ENTIRE CIVILISED WORLD"
Implying that the West ever saw India as part of the civilized world...
Funny because right up to the age of colonialism, aliens visiting earth would probably spend their time with the most "civilized" places - India, China, Tenochtitlan, etc. Western Europe was an irrelevant, "underdeveloped" backwater. There's some story about some of the initial contact between W. Europe and India, I think around the middle of the 15th century. The Europeans brought like shitty linens and they thought they could trade them for like gems and stuff, and the Indians just laughed at them.
"Rebellious colony!"
It's a fascinating contrast. Everyone hated Trump but at the end of the day absolutely none of the US' vassal states in Europe ever stood up to him or his admin. Now with this war, at least we have some countries in the global south telling Biden to pound sand. I love it.
And for decades the west have jeered at India's self sufficiency as "backward" and "holding them back", but now we're seeing its fruit: the west have little to no leverage over India, and they can't go with the usual route because India is a nuclear power.