Military victory?
Fake.
GDP growth?
Fake.
Election results?
Fake.
Meanwhile, Car sales in India is set to cross the 5 million mark in a year for the first time. Just behind US & China.
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This 50% tariff thing by Trump on India is just a hogwash. It does not stop our march. A coterie within the American DS has realized that they cannot have 2 non white nations grabbing them by their family jewels. They dropped the ball on China and are now paying through their noses. They do not want India to be another headache for them. Tariffs are just a signal to us, warning us to not get too big for our own boots.
They want a nation of 1.5 billion that is poor per capita, but large in aggregate to be a willing vassal who is a part of their great power machinations. At $4 trillion, we are asserting ourselves and that gives US a bit of heartburn. We are China 20 years ago. See where they are today. In US worldview they don't want another $15 trillion + behemoth over the next 20 years. A G2 consensus is emerging. They don't want it to be a G3.
7th fleet had to return in 1971. Sanctions did not work in 1998. Sanctions and tariffs tend to work on single commodity economies with a population of few million. Not countries the size of us or the economies of our size. Modi government is way too nationalistic for their taste. They would like to have the Italian prince or some pliable unmentionable to be reinstated so as to bring the back the pre-2014 status quo.
Op Sindoor was a rude jolt for them. The way we plastered their Pitbull in 4 days while expending a fraction of our warfighting prowess would be analyzed to the T by US. Asia now has a 3rd military power that can do serious damage and is only one with enough experience and wherewithal to actively hold off two nuclear states at the same time. Something even the US has never done despite their ICBMs, tech and a dozen super carriers.
So what to do with us? It is all hands on deck for them, particularly after 10th May, to exploit whatever fissiparous tendencies our society and polity exhibits. Use media, lawfare, useful idiots and what not to ensure the country is always on the boil internally. You will see the usual suspects start parroting the US line. The malcontents who can't win elections will keep on hammering on lies about vote theft despite rap from SC. Because they are desperate.
Next few years are crucial. If by chance these Italian and his basket of deplorables manage to upend Narendra Modi, the purge would be brutal. The festoon bearers of free speech and democracy would ensure every one they don't like are thrown in jail. So that, they may never rise again for decades on end. The scion of GOP has given such indications multiple times. He would be ably applauded by Western media for cleaning up the "RW loonies" who were being the proverbial fly in the ointment for over a decade. Narendra Modi has been always reluctant in unsheathing the scimitar. Perhaps it is now time that he eschews such reluctance.
Superbly articulated by Priyanka Joshi.
"The world doesn’t know what to do with India.
We don’t fit their neat little boxes. We’re not white.
We’re not monotheistic.
We’re not ex-colonizers or submissive ex-colonized.
We are something they can’t decode.
We are too many things at once—ancient and modern, spiritual and scientific, emotional and logical.
We believe in gods and particles, karma and quantum.
We’re chaos that somehow moves forward.
That bothers them.
Because we aren’t supposed to succeed.
We don’t speak with one voice. We speak in thousands.
Our system isn’t clean. It’s noisy. It debates. It screams. But it works—because we’ve lived through worse and survived.
When we rise, they frown.
When we achieve, they doubt.
Because they still see us the way they chose to see us long ago—untrained, uncouth, and scattered.
But we’ve always known how to turn our mess into movement.
They don’t get that a billion people don’t need a single script.
They fear our success because it didn’t come from their textbooks, their aid, or their approval.
We remember being ruled, but we were never truly conquered.
We adapted, absorbed, transformed—but never disappeared.
And that is unsettling for those who thought we would.
India rising doesn’t fit their world order.
Because we didn’t wait for permission.
We didn’t rise from imitation—we rose from memory, from contradiction, from sheer force of will.
And that’s why they don’t celebrate our rise.
They resist it.
Because it wasn’t supposed to happen.”