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Daniel Blauser's avatar

India has a very major export of "manpower" working in many fields for lower wages taking jobs from the local citizenry. They have been taking advantage of the USA for many years through the H1B Visa program and trump has promised to limit or stop that abuse. Modi is looking for a new place to flood with his low-cost workers and Israel will probably take all he wants to send because we like "cheap", even when it costs us in the end. I say we need to be wary and put ISRAEL FIRST!

Steve S's avatar

Aligning strongly with India is putting Israel first.

John Hardman's avatar

“Hindu nationalists and Jewish nationalists are natural allies.”

Fascists of a feather flock together…

"In contemporary India, Israel occupies such a role of emulation for Hindu nationalists, that it is often said that they seek to create a Hindu Israel in India. Israel is what they envision for India, and indeed, what nationalists throughout the world envision for their countries: a well-ordered state that stands against adversaries, modern — technologically and legally advanced — but also traditional at the same time, as well as supporting a society that gives the pride of place to its dominant cultural group and its norms, where minorities are managed."

https://thediplomat.com/2024/06/why-is-indias-hindu-right-pro-israel/#:~:text=On%20top%20of%20this%20ideological,and%20Israeli%20societies%20closer%20together.

John Hardman's avatar

Yes, a sign of fascism is tyrant deification syndrome, TDS.

John Hardman's avatar

Also, Micheal's assertion that China is supporting Islamist terrorism is absurd. China is the target of Islamists, not the sponsor.

"India has long borne the brunt of state-sponsored terrorism emanating from Pakistan. China, too, has become a target, though it has mostly underplayed the human, strategic, and economic costs.

In recent years, attacks on the so-called China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and Chinese citizens have repeatedly made headlines: “Chinese convoy suffers terrorist attack in Pakistan”; “Explosion in Pakistani capital kills Chinese people.” Beijing treats these incidents as part of a broader, troubling pattern, a price it is already paying for CPEC and its long-standing support of Pakistan."

https://www.instagram.com/p/DVLQiZ1gtZP/

Sanjay Mehta's avatar

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. China actively supports the terrorist state of Pakistan. In return the latter turn a blind eye (as does most of the world) to whatever is going on in Xinjiang.

And calling anyone who doesn't believe in your liberal fairy tales "fascist" is lazy, a sign of low intellect parroting the party tropes.

John Hardman's avatar

Yes, China has a business relationship with Pakistan, but is not involved in its politics. Yes, Pakistan is a hot mess, but China would prefer it to stabilize because they have a business to run in the region.

China had its own Islamist separtist problem in Xinjiang and quickly took strong actions to remedy the problem. Their no nonsense rehabilitation measures drew many accusations of "cultural genocide" from the West.

Pakistan is in China's backyard and any Islamist terrorism is likely to spread again into China. It makes absolutely no sense for China to support terrorism in a region that is so important to its BRI plans. https://la.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/news/202602/t20260204_11850980.htm#:~:text=%22China%20firmly%20opposes%20terrorism%20in,its%20people%2C%22%20he%20said.

If you have evidence otherwise, please inform us.

Sanjay Mehta's avatar

The same logic can be used to support Israel against Palestine or Palestine against Israel.

Has absolutely nothing to do with "fascism."

(On a side note there is one truly successful fascist country per the original definition and that is China. And the USA, under Trump is heading in the same direction. I'm not referring to goose stepping goons, but the partnership between the corporate sector and the state.)

John Hardman's avatar

You make my point. In Israel right now we have fascist Ultra-Orthodox Jews fighting fascist Islamists, while being assisted by Trump’s fascist Christian nationalists. Meanwhile, Putin continues his war of Slavic fascism, and Modi stirring the pot with fascist Hindu nationalism. Now, Pakistani is in open warfare with Afghan fascist Taliban Islamists with fascist Shiite Iran attempting to referee.

Remember the ‘N’ in Nazi was ‘nationalist’. Hindu nationalism has all the earmarks of fascism with a “superior race” wanting to subdue and control/exterminate a minority culture. Yes, that is also a description of Trump’s MAGA America, and we on the left are working to correct that.

Sanjay Mehta's avatar

What does India have to do with anything here?

Since you brought it up, let me make my views clear: The BJP under Modi is more left wing than you can imagine, doling out freebies galore to his vote banks and discriminating against the middle class.

There is no comparison between Trump and Modi. I would personally be very happy if Modi was even 1/10th as nationalistic as Trump.

The only reason to vote for Modi is that the alternative is a thousand times even more left wing. Imagine a male Kamala Harris, but even more incoherent, uneducated and just pure evil.