Trump Tariff & Turmoil

Karma is not a “beach” in Goa, it is right at your doorstep. PM Narendra Modi has learned nothing in his life except to lie, be pompous, chest-thump with fakery and fool people with bogus promises. Despite hanging out and swinging with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a long time, Modi hasn’t learned from him to keep his mouth shut when matters don’t concern him or India in anyway. On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump was still the President of the US and there were claims of election-frauds and riots at the Capitol Hill in Washington DC by Trump supporters. True to his nature, the Dehati Duffer made this stupid tweet:

Modi had called Trump a “great phraand” in all his meetings and events. And then to make such a tweet while Trump was still president would obviously imply many things; one of them being the “unlawful” protests were being fueled by Trump. Modi thought he could dance with the Democrats and Trump is not returning again. Unfortunately for him, Karma is a bitch that keeps coming back. Trump not only returned as President but after becoming President he pardoned 1600 of those jailed for the January 6 events while some had their sentences commuted. But Trump did not forgive one man – Modi!

Since he returned as President, Trump has treated Modi shabbily. He wasn’t invited to his inauguration and when he met Trump at the White House later, he was received by some lowly official while Trump had personally received all other leaders. The Presser later had more embarrassing moments for Modi. When asked a question, Modi didn’t get it was for him and Trump sarcastically said “The question is for you but I will still answer it”. And yet another reporter hit directly at Modi’s heart by asking about Adani. In just over 6 months, Trump’s vengeance has struck Modi and, consequently, India with punitive tariffs. First a 25% and then another 25% punitive tariff for importing Russian oil against US sanctions (as Trump claims). All this after Modi’s coolies hung around in the US for days and couldn’t seal a trade deal.

To divert a bit. On December 6, 2021 Vladimir Putin, the Russian President (For life?) paid a sudden, one-day visit to India. Putin, of course, is a suave, sophisticated politician who was also an Intelligence Officer for 16 years in his career. On the face of it this is what transpired in the meeting Putin had with Modi in Delhi:

S-400 and AK-203 are all very fine. But we have hindsight now. Putin’s main purpose it seems was to privately inform Modi about his plans to invade Ukraine (which he did in February 2022) and seek his support by a trade-off by buying Russian oil for partly funding his war (prior to that, India’s highest oil imports were from Iraq). That now seems “mission accomplished” for Putin and Modi, seems to have willingly played along. Nothing wrong in that deal except that the US and NATO later turned on Modi as being a Russian-stooge and compelled him to make a half-hearted visit to Ukraine to show his “Buddh not Yuddh” nonsense”. This clandestine deal is what irks the US more than any tariff issue in addition to the vengeance Trump wants to wreak on Modi:

What should have been just a trade deal to solve grievances on both sides has now graduated into an economic war on India by Trump and that has resulted Modi once again playing the widow, victim and Meena Kumari – She, the Dehati Aurat that has been suffering all her life from atrocities from Brahmins, UCs, lack of water, lack of education, lack of a decent spouse, lack of sex, lack of money, extreme gareebi, bartan-washing mother and what not. Now, the ultimate atrocity has come from an American President so Modi, once again, decides to pay a “PERSONAL PRICE” to protect the farmers of India:

The farmer issue is not cited by Trump or any of the US negotiators as an irritant in making a trade deal. When Trump called India a “Tariff King” there is definitely some reason for it because India has historically created trade barriers and ran a “protectionist” economy being a poor country. India still remains a poor country practically with a per capita GDP of  just around $2500 or so. Let’s get some raw facts out of the way on Indian exports to the US and India currently has a favourable balance of trade with the US:

The story of India’s tariffs on the US (and others) is not fully explained by the experts who have outraged on the punitive tariffs by Trump. Here’s a look at what India does to ensure many US/foreign products simply will not be attractive or feasible for an average business to import:

Laughably, the one thing that India reduced after some rounds of discussion is the tariff on American whisky from 150 to 100% so that the Ambanis and Adanis can happily entertain their bribe-seekers. As for the simple weighted average shown in the bottom image – that is misleading. In most cases, the tariff is zero or under 7% for items that India badly needs while others are taxed so heavily that import and trade is nearly impossible. Any set of statistics/data can always be cleverly manipulated which our experts and media happily do. 

India is being punished with an additional tariff of 25%, taking it to 50%, by the US (with a window to comply till August 27) because of Russian oil and not so much because it wants to sell farm products. China is also buying Russian oil but Trump doesn’t dare to confront China. Many Chinese companies also complied with US sanctions against Russia and those who didn’t were also sanctioned by the US. Remember, the US is a huge debtor to China (1 Trillion dollars). However, the Dehati Modi makes it out as if he is the “VICTIM” who will protect farmers from the atrocity of “US Brahmins”. Needlessly to say, that worthless stunt is for Bihar elections and typically Modi met a bunch of Tamil Nadu farmers a day ago. Two states up for elections within 9 months. 

What Trump has effectively done is, he has put Modi on the mat to now negotiate on the 50% tariff rather than the earlier situation where India was negotiating only on the initial 25%. Either way, the ones most affected will be the businesses – medium and big, in the private sector. India’s GDP may also be dented to some extent but not so greatly. But the very experts and morons who led India up a garden path under a clueless PM like Modi are now grandly stating that this crisis is a great opportunity for “grand reforms”. Like this one:

Modi has not made any great reforms in the 11 years that he has been PM. He neither has the brains nor the intelligence for it nor is he a person who would be willing to stake his electoral fortunes on drastic reforms. All that Modi has done in 11 years is worsened caste politics, loot taxes, dramatically increased doles and peddling nonsensical slogans to the illiterate voters of India. His entire goal is to remain PM till he dies and nothing else.

Modi is also scheduled to visit China for an upcoming SCO meet. Some are also suggesting that since US is now acting almost anti-India, Modi will make “phraands” with China again. I doubt that will happen and that would be more stupid than before because China will never change as an enemy of India. Nor is India going to come out of the turmoil by Modi acting like a widow and victim. That is the usual “Nautanki” of the Dehati Duffer. India can only be patient like the vulture and use all its available negotiating skills in bargaining and reaching a compromise with the US and at the same time keep some semblance of importing Russian oil without losing its pride.

The one lesson that Modi must learn (although he is unteachable) is that nobody is a “friend” in international politics – it is all business. Hugging, kissing, chest-thumping and guffawing like a fool with silly jokes is not necessary for diplomatic success. A certain level of modesty, distance and cordiality would do well for Modi and his morons. 

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Future Of GC

There are two images and stories below. The one on the left is a church in Kerala which was to be demolished in 2021 for the NH 66. Protests by the Christian community forced the GOI to change the route of the highway. The latest news is that the highway itself collapsed soon after construction. On the right is a picture from Varanasi:

In case of Varanasi, a road was to be widened for modernization. As usual, the criminal govt destroyed many shops and establishments. All except a Mazar. There are thousands of ILLEGAL Mazars across India on roads, flyovers, railway stations but none of them have been ever touched. But had it been a Hindu temple, no matter how old, the govt of Narendra Modi and his goons instantly demolish it. The seed of contempt for anything Hindu now runs so deep that the public will soon realise that Hindus are not really a majority in India. The census of 2027 shouldn’t shock anyone.

Of course, Hindus are an intelligent race. Most of them are quite aware the govt is Hindu-drohi and so are all political parties and their pigs. Hindus are concerned with regular life-issues like jobs, crumbling infrastructure, real estate prices, inflation, excessive taxes and a general degeneration of life in India. Most of these Hindus are also very religious. As a solution to all their problems they do make investments in Faith. They invest in charlatans and criminals like the guy in the pic who then lives a playboy life with expensive yachts and other trappings. In return, such thugs give these hapless souls some “Chooran” as “miracle solutions” to their lives. These are mostly uneducated Hindus. The educated ones, mostly middle class, confront an even more dangerous problem – that of Reservations. That is a very threat to their survival and progress as a community.

Reservations started at 10% and that was supposed to be the maximum for 10 years. Now it has gone beyond 70% in most states and govt organisations and is now an eternal policy that will not be withdrawn. With each govt in the last 3 decades the situation has only gotten worse. But nothing has ever come as close to sealing the fate and future of the General Category (GC) with a manhole cover with a truck wheel on it like under this Modi govt’s criminal discriminatory policies. Modi has unleashed not only a new cult of the Ambedkariyas vengeance but also his own personal vengeance against the GC. His hatred and contempt for GCs is evident in every election speech he makes or any speech he makes wherever he goes in India. Coupled with the extreme appeasement of Muslims and backward castes, India is now a socially poisoned country. Poisoned by none other than Modi with his caste policies:

Mind you, all these classifications of SC, ST, OBC are made by the govts themselves. And then, with such classifications, the criminal politicians grandly assign all the resources to these castes. What are these resources? Water, Hills, Mountains, Gold, Silver? There is no specific reference to any resource. It’s a general statement for votes which neither these groups own nor the govt gives them any. The only resource that the govt gives them is CASH and jobs based on Caste and seats in educational institutions. There is another criminal target for resource created by Modi and his goons – WOMEN! Almost every state now has some women-dole scheme like “Ladli Behen” or “Ladli Aunty”. They have added gender as a cause for discrimination to caste.

Then there is a grand campaign to Ambedkarise the whole country with his statues dotting the landscape – one state somewhere competing in height with another in some state. “My Ambedkar is tallest” is the competition that Modi has introduced. That apart, he is building “Panch Teerths” as devotional sites for Ambedkariyas. Now the Andhra govt goes one further to install Ambedkar statues in Gurukuls which are primarily Hindu units and you won’t find someone as anti-Hindu in history as Ambedkar in recent times. He wanted Hinduism itself to be destroyed:

In short, every avenue of opportunity through merit and qualification for the GC is being closed by the ModiGovt and also the NDA-ruled states. The Ambedkariya gangs have become a violent outfit with a license to attack and even kill UCs in states like UP and Bihar. The Brahmin murder count since Yogi became CM has crossed over 2000 at conservative estimates but not one single murderer has been punished so far. Thus, Narendra Modi has created an atmosphere in India where GC simply does not have a right to exist or qualify for anything. Even for admissions to higher education courses, they have to do better than Sergei Bubka and break world records in scores numerous times to get an admission while that backward ones get admissions even if they fail. This applies even for govt jobs. And their final frontier is the private sector where they want Reservations.

So, what is the future of the GC in India? Bleak would be a minor word. In my assessment – their future is ZERO, NIL, NOTHING! There is an enormous pressure on the GC to get nearly 100% score in every qualification test whether it’s an educational course or a job. To top all of the discrimination heaped on the GC, there is the SC/ST Act which Modi brags about. This criminal Act singularly, vertically divides society with one segment going on a rampage filing a lot of fake cases for all the flimsiest of reasons. It was made more draconian by Modi and reinstated even after the SC had once outlawed the mandatory arrest under the Act:

The more the discrimination and qualifying the worst candidates in all critical jobs the greater the incompetence of all the govts and the country as a whole. The Blackbox of the AI171 flight that crashed at Ahmedabad had to be sent to the US for decoding despite the GOI having set a new lab costing 9 crores to decode the device. Whether it is railways or road constructions, every domain is filled with incompetence by hiring people of the lowest quality by destroying merit. There is hardly any country on earth that Indians are not migrating to. Even a recently formed country like Croatia has immigrants from India since Modi became PM:

The GC face pressure to perform extraordinarily right from school due to RTE and future qualification exams. The GC doesn’t have a future in India except for the private sector. They have to invest heavily in education and skills to survive and top institutes may still elude them. If their family is rich, they can be in business but jobs will keep disappearing for them. They will have to seek educational and career opportunities abroad as they should. The Hindu population is declining because of lower birth rates as also mass migration. It will be hard for the GC to survive in India as time passes and more discrimination is heaped against them through caste and religion. Even otherwise, the actual Hindu population in India may now be no more than 30-40%. Staying in India is not only detrimental to their education and career as also their children of the future but also poses a serious danger to life as also fake cases they may have to battle. At a recent event in Oxford, the CJI BR Gavai grandly asked Indian students to finish their studies and return to India to build a super Bharat (Video 22 secs):

All the lipstick airports and other corrupt infra that keep crumbling all around does not make India. The GDP too is shored up by a high level of govt expenditure and low productivity almost all domains. In reality, as a democracy that should guarantee “equality”, India is a failed state. And this will not change regardless of which party is in power. Loyalty and patriotism are key ingredients of a nation but when the State deliberately discriminates against you through all kinds of laws and even Constitutional discrimination, then the GC should find better life elsewhere. False pride always comes before a fall.

 

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