Why the West
keen on India support in the Russia-Ukraine war?
The Russia-Ukraine war is raging with devastation
all around, and loss of life and property. Russia claims it went to war due to
Ukraine and western countries provocation, who went back on their promise on
Nato. And the west says, Russia started the war and is the aggressor. The war
has put many other countries and India in a tricky situation. Though friendly
with the west and USA, and due to India’s historical ties with the then Soviet
Union and later Russia, India thought it fit to abstain from voting in the UN
general assembly. But the west and USA are putting pressure on India to take a
stand and toe their line. Declare Russia has the aggressor and invader of
Ukraine territory. It’s a tight rope walk for India which compelled it to
abstain and remain neutral in the current conflict. And there are reasons
behind this move.
But the west and USA is bent upon asking India to
support them. India’s Foreign Minister Jaishankar addressed the assembly and
presented facts and history, and also reminded them of some earlier decisions
made by the west, putting them in a tight corner. Here too the reasons spelled
out for the war is not as simple as it is made out to be. There are political,
economic and strategic considerations.
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Why the West is pretending to need India for the
war in Ukraine. Why is West keen on India support in the Russia-Ukraine war?
What is India doing for European security?”
This is the exact question that External Affairs
Minister S Jaishankar was asked point blank at the Munich Security Conference
last week. One can think of any number of responses, none of them as civil as
what the minister chose to give. Most of all, seriously? After 70 years of
arming and supporting Pakistan, the West really wants to ask this question? You
just looked the other way on China and Covid. You looked away as Chinese troops
brutally attacked India in the middle of a pandemic. And you just left a huge
cache of weapons, even attack helicopters and transports for the Taliban in
Afghanistan. The smaller of those weapons have already made it into the hands
of terrorists in Kashmir.
And now you dare ask what we are doing for your
security?
But the West is not kidding. Over the last one
month, the West has hit us with almost everything they have, demanding that we
join their war. Governments, think tanks, foreign policy experts, newspaper
columnists, even sundry comedians and internet influencers. They are pleading,
they are threatening, they are hysterical. Come on, India. You must condemn
Russia, or else.
The other day, ambassadors of all EU countries met
in Delhi in a show of solidarity for Ukraine. That is their business, of
course, but why Delhi? Was no other capital city on earth available to them? It
was yet another tactic to put pressure on India.
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So far, our government has refused to buckle under
pressure. And, by most accounts, the vast majority of Indians are with the
government on this one. Should we spoil relations with a long time ally and
number one weapons supplier to make the New York Times happy? No way.
But it does not end there. We have to dig deeper
behind the motivations of the West. Why this extreme focus on India all of a
sudden? What big difference would it make to the Western effort if India were
to condemn Russia? I have to be skeptical here. We all know that India has been
climbing the global power ladder for a while now. Did we become a superpower
already without actually realizing?
Suppose for a moment that India agrees to make
Washington happy. Or as think tank experts like to call it, decides to stand up
for “democracy and freedom.” Suppose that our External Affairs Ministry
released the most blistering statement condemning Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
What happens next? Will the Russians retreat immediately, terrified of the
fearsome power of the Indian Army? Will Russia and China, fearing sanctions
from India, fold like wet tissue? Will they start celebrating with Indian flags
on the streets of Kyiv? I doubt this.

Then why is the West so desperate to have us on
their side? Here is one possibility. They are not seeking our help. They are
just trying to demonize us. They understand India’s interests and compulsions
perfectly. They know that New Delhi will not toe their line, and India will not
condemn Russia. That is why they have drawn a moral line in the sand and are
shouting from the rooftops that India is on the wrong side of it. Who hates
freedom? India. Who supports aggression? India. Who is hypocritical and against
a rule based international order? India.
And here is the real subtext of what they are
saying. Which is the country that does not deserve any support from the world?
India.
My mistake. It is not subtext at all. In fact, they
say it quite openly. Indians are hypocrites. Because India won’t go against
Russia over Ukraine, the Indians deserve nothing from the world in their
struggle against China.
Again, they are not seeking our help. They are
manufacturing an excuse for them-selves to stay out in case of Chinese
aggression against India. If something were to happen between China and India
tomorrow, the West would like to stay out. Of course they would. While placing
sanctions on Russia, they couldn’t even bring themselves to give up the chance
to sell expensive watches and jackets to Russian oligarchs. You think they
would be willing to give up trillions of dollars of trade, and their entire
supply chains, to make a point against China and in support of India? Ha!
But nevertheless, it would look bad for the West.
The supposedly democratic West siding with the Chinese Communist Party
dictatorship against a democratic India.
How to get out of this tangle? The answer is
obvious. Demonize India on all fronts. Go label the Indian government as
genocidal and Nazi. They do this behind the facade of “experts” and “civil
society organizations,” of course. So they get Freedom House and Swedish V-Dem
or whatever to declare that India is not even a democracy any more. When war
breaks out in Eastern Europe, they get the New York Times and Wall Street
Journal to tell the world that Indians hate freedom.
China likes this, of course. They understand that
India derives tremendous moral authority from the fact that we are a democracy.
There are only two ways for China to blunt this advantage. One, China could
transform itself into a democracy, which the Communist Party obviously doesn’t
want. The only other option is to vilify India internationally, so that India
is also seen as an authoritarian and genocidal state.
Which is exactly what the global media, the
experts, the think tanks have all been saying for eight years now. The West
needs this narrative against India. China needs this narrative against India.
And both are presumably willing to pay. What a wonderful coincidence that
“experts” worldwide have come to exactly this conclusion: India is evil.
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