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The US should not normalize Modi’s autocratic and illiberal India at the G20
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Why would the US stop supporting autocratic and illiberal regimes now? Did we find our principles at any point in the last 70 years?
Illiberal? The BJP party and the RSS are fascists.
Can confirm, it's literally 1939 and we force Muslims to wear gold stars and send them to concentration camps.
PM Modi says "Identify them by their clothes", and all over India Hindu supremacists beat Muslim men to death after forcing them praise the Hindu god Ram.
PM Modi ignores and refuses to discuss the ethnic & communal genocidal civil war in Manipur that is in its 5th month, while churches are burnt and Kukis have been ethnically cleansed from Imphal valley.
Peacefully protesting Sikh farmers are called Khalistani and terrorists while a violet hindu supremacist attacks them under Delhi police's eye.
Yeah we have daily ritual of beating Muslims. Not to mention this clothing we make them wear. It is required by PM modi's law to kick a Muslim whenever we see them.
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Wow. Genocide is not a minimum criteria for fascism.
Fascism is characterized by an ideology that one group of people is superior to others. That's literally the ideology of the RSS. Hindu nationalism is fascism.
It's hilarious how many different definitions of fascism I see on Lemmy on a given day
Do we Indians have a server on Lemmy? just wondering.
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Unsure what they think letting India have only Russia to turn to would gain the US, but I promise it isn't realistic.
Well at least he's not sending love letters to little Kim.
Yeah, no. I am all against Modi and the BJP and most of their policies (except for the Foreign policy which has been a win acc to me)
But, no. You will not punish Indians because Modi is the leader of the country. And it's not in US interest to do this either. Some idiot at the Guardian might think this, but yeah, thankfully US foreign policy heads are not this dumb.
What punishment are you talking about? Did we read the same article?
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Reminder that India is still happily trading with Russia by buying their arms and buying their oil. In fact, India and Russia together found ways to circumvent the oil price cap and most Indians support Russia in Ukraine.
India is not an American ally. They're neutral and self-interested as they've always been.
India is also happily trading with China. It's imports from China increased after China built villages in India's Arunchal Pradesh, invaded India's Ladakh & beat 20 Indian soldiers to death. Prime Mninister Modi's response to that act invasion & aggression was to publicly say that China did not invade India.
Modi is not USA's friend. He is a dictator who is friendly with other dictators.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Biden opened his address to the summit by describing his motivation for holding it: “in the face of sustained and alarming challenges … democracy needs champions”.
More recently, Biden invited Benjamin Netanyahu, who is presiding over the destruction of Israel’s democracy by targeting its judicial system, for an official visit to the United States.
In 2005 Modi, then the chief minister of Gujarat, was denied entry to the US because of his role in ethnic violence that left over 1,000 people dead, the vast majority of them Muslims.
According to a recently declassified report from the British Foreign Office, the Hindu mobs’ “systematic campaign of violence has all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing” and “Narendra Modi is directly responsible.”
The National Registry Act, already implemented in the Indian state of Assam, is a seemingly contradictory effort to expel illegal immigrants.
Jack Kirby, a US national security official, has made light of objections to Modi, declaring that “India is a vibrant democracy.
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