Dumb: Picking a Fight with India
On 20 August 2025, I was on CNN-News18 in India with Zakka Jacob, a top-notch interviewer who I have spoken with on a number of occasions in the past. We talked about the recent dealings surrounding the Ukraine war and how it relates to US policy toward India. I argued that the Trump administration’s hostile policy toward India — slapping 50% tariffs on India — for importing Russian oil is strategically foolish. Not only is it going to fail to get India to stop importing Russian oil, but it is going to push India closer to Russia and China, and poison India-US relations, which have improved greatly over the past 25 years.
This is evidence that all our top political leaders are doing is further alienating the US from the rest of the world. It’s truly a shame.
I just watched a video titled “Reconstructing Ukrainian Faces”. It was about teams of surgeons reconstructing the faces of wounded soldiers in Ukraine. It’s sickening to think that all of this could have been relatively easily avoided.
It’s time to start a viable third party in the United States that isn’t beholden to the Israel lobby, The Military Industrial Complex, et al.
While India, after being hit by U.S. tariffs, is positioning itself closer to China to signal its determination to remain independent, here in Europe the mainstream media proudly defends our leaders as “realists.” And not only that, they even suggest that anyone who calls for a different European stance toward the USA is an extremist. Unbelievable.