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Days before Narendra Modi's visit to the USA, they deport 104 undocumented presumed Indian immigrants on a military cargo plane flight in which women were shackled, children were restrained with ropes (www.thehindu.com)

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This is gonna make licking DJT's boot a little bittersweet for Modi because the opposition parties are gonna call them spineless.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Just like good old colonial days.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Sadly the bootlickers of the BJP all of a sudden does not care about this, and they instead turned this around to hating minorities and deporting alleged Bangladeshi illegal immigrants in India (for which the government of India said that they had zero data on).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Saying that the bootlicking will be bittersweet would mean he enjoys it, i always thought of boot licking as a realpolitik sorta thing but honestly now that u mention it a lot of leaders in amerikkkan vassals do seem to love the boot.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It is realpolitik to be sure. But there is a genuine alignment of interests too. I don't know the BJP camp internally views Trump but the kind of austere pro-business economy BJP wants to cultivate is in line with the vision that America wants third world countries to have. BJP and the Indian bourgeoisie want nothing more than to sell the country, her resources and people to western capitalists for a handsome profit. This has proven to be difficult mainly because it turns out that if you invest all the money in spectacular megaprojects (to funnel the money into private contractors) and none in the masses, you get an uneducated and unreliable workforce that is a not a good destination for FDI.

For this reason, their love for the western boot has been left unrequitted. They have had to consider the possibility of opening up to Chinese investment. Don't know if it is serious or just meant as a threat to the US.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yep essentially wants his people, that is even if he views them as his people, to be cheap labor for western firms as him and his cronies that own the factories line their pockets.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

If Congress Party and CPI(M) win the election, then most of resources that India is producing should have been reserved for domestic purposes only. I'm tired of BJP shilling for the West. BJP has been ruining the rights of every Muslim citizen of India since they won the election.