Thread: US Suddenly Pretends To Care About Rights Abuses In India

The United States is suddenly very concerned about human rights violations in India, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken telling the press on Monday that “we are monitoring some recent concerning developments in India including a rise in human rights abuses by some government, police and prison officials.”

While it is true that India’s right-wing government is guilty of human rights abuses and has been for years, it is also true that the US State Department does not actually care about human rights abuses.

A leaked State Department memo from the early days of the Trump administration showed neoconservative empire manager Brian Hook teaching a previously uninitiated Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that for the US government, “human rights” are only a weapon to be used for keeping other nations in line. In a remarkable insight into the cynical nature of imperial narrative management, Hook told Tillerson that it is US policy to overlook human rights abuses committed by nations aligned with US interests while exploiting and weaponizing them against nations who aren’t.

“In the case of US allies such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Philippines, the Administration is fully justified in emphasizing good relations for a variety of important reasons, including counter-terrorism, and in honestly facing up to the difficult tradeoffs with regard to human rights,” Hook explained in the memo.

“One useful guideline for a realistic and successful foreign policy is that allies should be treated differently — and better — than adversaries,” Hook wrote. “We do not look to bolster America’s adversaries overseas; we look to pressure, compete with, and outmaneuver them. For this reason, we should consider human rights as an important issue in regard to US relations with China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. And this is not only because of moral concern for practices inside those countries. It is also because pressing those regimes on human rights is one way to impose costs, apply counter-pressure, and regain the initiative from them strategically.”




No, the US State Department does not care about human rights abuses. Blinken’s remarks are just the latest in a series of shots across the bow that the US empire has been firing at New Delhi to warn it against moving into alignment with Moscow.

In an article last week titled “India to Face Significant Cost If Aligned With Russia, U.S. Says,” Bloomberg reported the following:

President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser said the administration has warned India against aligning itself with Russia, and that U.S. officials have been “disappointed” with some of New Delhi’s reaction to the Ukraine invasion.

“There are certainly areas where we have been disappointed by both China and India’s decisions, in the context of the invasion,” the director of the White House National Economic Council, Brian Deese, told reporters at a breakfast Wednesday hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.

The U.S. has told India that the consequences of a “more explicit strategic alignment” with Moscow would be “significant and long-term,” he said.


This new tone is a significant shift from the jovial relations between India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Trump administration, or even between Modi and the Biden administration as recently as last year. Just yesterday Biden made it clear in a call with Modi that it would be against India’s interests to increase its oil imports from Russia. Reuters reports that Biden “told Modi India’s position in the world would not be enhanced by relying on Russian energy sources,” according to US officials.

“The president conveyed very clearly that it is not in their interest to increase that,” White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said when asked about India’s imports of Russian oil.

We can expect to see more and more feigned concern about Indian human rights abuses from the US government if these increasingly unsubtle messages are disobeyed, with destructive acts of economic sabotage soon to follow.

The US empire is correct to be concerned about a potential future Indian pivot out of Washington’s sphere of influence. While it has succeeded thus far in weaponizing New Delhi in its grand chessboard maneuverings against China, the world’s two most populous nations uniting with the Russian nuclear superpower in the emerging bloc of nations who are rejecting absorption into the US-centralized power structure would be disastrous for the empire.

But the fact that the US sees it as its business who foreign nations choose to align with reveals its true dynamic on the world stage, and makes a mockery of the lip service this empire has been paying to the importance of respecting national sovereignty in its narrative management about Ukraine. The US is the single most tyrannical regime on earth, using whatever amount of violence, coercion and bullying are necessary in its efforts to bring the entire planet under its lasting control.

This empire truly believes it has a right to rule the world, and that no nation has a right to refuse it. The re-emergence of a true multipolar world is crashing headlong into an imperial doctrine that demands securing unipolar domination at all cost, and it’s getting very ugly very fast.

https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/us...a-baef46c0d39b


Meanwhile the 'Xinjiang Genocide' continues unabated. Where is Monty Python when you need them?

https://twitter.com/MaitreyaBhakal/s...764040d3dc5c07


You can follow the conversation on Twitter if you are interested to see what Indian and other people have to say about this. But surely India can do no wrong, being a Quad member?

A lefty harridan and another Russian stooge.

And sabang accuses others of propaganda...

Oh but doesn't she come out with some good memes.


"US Suddenly Pretends To Care About Rights Abuses In India"

"The whole World should be laughing at America for pretending to care about Muslims in China"

"You should get your bitch ass on a plane and go join the front lines"

Originally Posted by sabang

Oh but doesn't she come out with some good memes.

You're right, she doesn't.

Originally Posted by sabang

Oh but doesn't she come out with some good memes.


"US Suddenly Pretends To Care About Rights Abuses In India"

"The whole World should be laughing at America for pretending to care about Muslims in China"

"You should get your bitch ass on a plane and go join the front lines"

Opinion based distractions mean you are getting a bit reactionary.

Anything else you are angry about?

Sure, If Labor wins the next election and speaks for Australian interests, it gonna be-

"US suddenly pretends to care about the plight of Aborigines in Australia."

...more to the point: Indian elites don't care about rights abuses in India...

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

And sabang accuses others of propaganda...

Originally Posted by sabang

"The whole World should be laughing at America for pretending to care about Muslims in China"

Luckily one can do several things at once - help here, destroy there. Care here, don't give a shit there.

You are one of the few lucky ones that does . . . oh yes, exactly that.

Originally Posted by Switch

Opinion based distractions mean you are getting a bit reactionary.

Anything else you are angry about?

You know whats going on here right ?

First India is purchasing Russian S-400 air defense systems. That will get you sliding down the human rights scale in a hurry. Then they started buying Russian oil using Ruble/Rupees. That will really torpedo your human rights record. It's surprising that India got this far without anything being said.

Wouldn't surprise me if we get some Mumbai circa 2008 action.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

A lefty harridan and another Russian stooge.

And sabang accuses others of propaganda...

Of course, the hit piece this bitch wrote is biased and leaving out some very key points about why Blinken commented on this at all...

"We regularly engage with our Indian partners on these shared values (of human rights) and to that end, we are monitoring some recent concerning developments in India including a rise in human rights abuses by some government, police and prison officials," Blinken said on Monday in a joint press briefing with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and India's Defense Minister Rajnath Singh.

Well, the Indians were in the room when they said it...

Singh and Jaishankar, who spoke after Blinken at the briefing, did not comment on the human rights issue.

Blinken's comment was a response to comments made by U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar. Attempting to read more into it than that is just fake news by retarded propagandist liars like Skiddy and Subwang...

Blinken's remarks came days after U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar questioned the alleged reluctance of the U.S. government to criticize Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on human rights.
"What does Modi need to do to India’s Muslim population before we will stop considering them a partner in peace?" Omar, who belongs to President Joe Biden's Democratic Party, said last week.

So more smoke and mirrors bullshit by the Three Stooges.

Originally Posted by Backspin

You know whats going on here right ?

First India is purchasing Russian S-400 air defense systems. That will get you sliding down the human rights scale in a hurry. Then they started buying Russian oil using Ruble/Rupees. That will really torpedo your human rights record. It's surprising that India got this far without anything being said.

Wouldn't surprise me if we get some Mumbai circa 2008 action.

What in holy fuck are you bellowing about now? You wouldn’t recognize India if the entire continent landed on your head.

India has failed to censure the Russian War. So have other countries. What about it? This will not affect the outcome of the war in Ukraine. If India is happy to burn its bridges with the west, it will lose out in the long term because the west holds more cards than a Russian state that will end up closing armaments factories because attacking a Ukraine without reason and conducting its atrocities will see the country and its military industries blackballed by the civilised world.
You personally lack the gumption to see what is actually happening inUkraine. Putin can only feign ignorance and issue denials for so long.
Putin will not be allowed to get away with murder. He and his country will become a pariah nation with nowhere to turn to.

The west will take away all his toys at the end. He will be left with an empty sandpit and soiled underwear.

Gottanother luvly Catty hitpiece coming up in the Ukraine megathread, if you are interested. Seems to me Catty is getting somewhat of a cult following around here. A hate cult.

Originally Posted by sabang

Gottanother luvly Catty hitpiece coming up in the Ukraine megathread, if you are interested. Seems to me Catty is getting somewhat of a cult following around here. A hate cult.

I think it's more of a four wanketeers circle jerk.

So what is the US "Suddenly going to pretend to be Concerned about" next, Nostradamus?

Originally Posted by sabang

So what is the US "Suddenly going to pretend to be Concerned about" next, Nostradamus?

Whether or not the Moskva has sunk yet I reckon.

Originally Posted by sabang

So what is the US "Suddenly going to pretend to be Concerned about" next, Nostradamus?

As you pointed out yourself, this is TD so you should be safe. Even in the real world it’s unlikely to be you.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Whether or not the Moskva has sunk yet I reckon.

Nato