🗑️HOW POLLUTED IS INDIA?🗑️
Let’s have a look!!
REMEMBER, CARNEY WANTS TO BRING MILLIONS MORE OF THEM HERE!!
(And they already represent the largest group immigrating to Canada.)
Cabin crew told me that there are always more wheelchairs on flights going to and from India and others carrying large amounts of Indians (think Toronto to London to take a connecting flight from London to India) than other flights.
It’s because Indians like the extra service and attention it gives them. It’s a product of Indian culture and the caste system. Indian flights are notoriously challenging for Western cabin crew (or indeed any non-Indian crew) because the customers are so demanding and, frankly, treat the staff terribly.
Other flights to completely unrelated destinations are routinely delayed due to Indians occupying all of the wheelchairs at airports. If there is no wheelchair available for a genuinely disabled person when their flight arrives, it delays the unloading of that flight and makes that plane’s next journey delayed as well.
Basically, Indian culture is causing severe delays around the world. As India becomes wealthier and more Indians can afford to travel, this problem is only going to get worse unless airports start refusing to let non-disabled people use wheelchairs.
This is genuinely hilarious, and peak on-brand American tone-deafness.
The United States is now asking China, the same China it has spent years trying to economically isolate, sanction, and technologically contain, to help it economically isolate & sanction one of China’s own partners: Iran.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is telling Beijing to “get with the programme” and join Washington’s “most crushing economic operation” against Iran. “You are either with us or against us.” China is Iran’s largest oil customer. And yet America expects Beijing to help crush Tehran’s economy.
This is the same America that put Huawei on the Entity List, expanded the Foreign Direct Product Rule to strangle its supply chain, pressured allies to ban it from 5G, restricted advanced chips and manufacturing equipment, targeted DJI and Chinese drones, and placed hundreds of Chinese companies under export controls, all while talking about maintaining technological superiority and reducing economic dependence on China. That's the kind of "with us" they were hoping China would continue playing along with.
After years of trying to isolate China, they now want China’s help isolating China’s ally.
The lack of self-awareness is almost impressive.
Still, it’s deeply satisfying to finally see meaningful pushback against the economic tools that have long been used to pressure, constrain, and punish countries around the world.