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<\/a><\/p>\nEver since President Trump has begun his second term in office , there has hardly been a quiet day . From the silent behind the scene manoeuvres , diplomacy has now become a grand opera with a ticket .<\/p>\n
In the beginning world leaders lined up at White House to get a favourable deal. But after Qatar’s gift of a 400 million dollar Boeing Plane, the world leaders got cautious and South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa publicly expressed in White House with full media in attendance , his inability to match Qatar’s gift .<\/p>\n
After this many countries started getting cold about ‘ Making a Deal\u00a0 ‘ at the cost of national dignity . French president Macron\u00a0 was amongst the first. But the cake must go to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney who really showed his class at Davos by his sentence ‘ If you are not at table , you are on the menu ‘ . In one stroke he told the world that in Trump era old rule based world order is gone .<\/p>\n
India had tried very hard to be in Trump’s right side and our MEA Jai Shankar spent many days in Washington before swearing in . But Trump 2 was different . It had no regards for Indian interests . PM Modi first went to Washington but finally decided protect the Indian interests particularly regarding buying oil , fertilisers , coal and steel from Russia on\u00a0 discounted rates. India like Canada faced USA’s\u00a0 \u00a0highest tariff\u00a0 of fifty percent because of not abandoning Russia in difficult times.<\/p>\n
Slowly even the closest American ally , United Kingdom too got disenchanted and moved away and started developing alternative to VISA<\/p>\n
There were no friends but only ruthless pursuit of deemed American interests . But the threat to annex Greenland and merger of Canada in USA was the limit . Therefore when Trump invaded Iran without consulting NATO member countries, they refused to join the war . It was a unique first exposing the total global isolation of USA . Virtual failure of USA in changing the regime in Iran or bringing it on knees ended the sole super power status of USA .<\/p>\n
But as far as India is concerned West has not left its colonial mindset . During a recent visit to Pakistan, EU’s foreign minister Kaja\u00a0<\/span>Kallas,<\/span> unnecessarily brought in the Kashmir issue in joint press conference . Similarly USA blackmailed us on Gurupatwant Singh Pannu affair as did Canada on Nijjar case . They interfere and talk of regime change with impunity in developing world including India but want to protect every citizen of theirs .<\/p>\n What Trump has to realise that if America is a shopkeeper selling its economic leverage it can get nations as customers not allies . In contrast India repaid Russia’s assistance In Bangladesh war by standing with it in its time of greatest need . This is called alliance not a transactional relationship.<\/p>\n If Europe wants to protect\u00a0 its sovereignty and economy , it must get out of its colonial mindset and work on long term alliances as equals with countries like India etc. keeping in mind their culture and\u00a0 sensitivities .<\/p>\n Shopkeepers get customers not friends or allies !<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shopkeepers Get Customers Not Friends or Allies : Need To Re Evaluate The Current US… more