Posted on 09/01/2025 5:16:50 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
THIS is the bizarre moment Vladimir Putin is seen holding hands with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an "anti-Nato" summit.
The inseparable pair were seen giggling and smiling at one another as they met up with Chinese despot Xi Jinping for crunch talks in Tianjin.
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The individuals to whom you refer cannot allow that there be more than two stances in their neo-con, neo-lib behaviors on these threads. In this they are dullards.
They are those who would sit for their 'Two Minutes Hate' of 'Emmanuel Goldstein,' but their two minutes lasts for them far longer.
Emblematic for me was: "I would rather the world end in nuclear war than yield to Little Pukin."
That was neither pro-American nor Christian, and most certainly not conservative.
Be well. Stay the course. God bless.
USS Iowa Jima "light carrier":
First of all, Pres. Trump is not a "man of peace".
Trump is a man of Peace Through Strength, also, Make American Great Again and Put Americans First.
Trump will not hesitate to remove threats to peace, such as Iran's nuclear weapons facilities or Venezuelan narco-regimes.
Second, the US President has, depending on your definitions of the term, 11 large carriers (CVNs), 9 light carriers (LHA & LHDs) and another 13 mini-carriers (LPDs).
Trump is currently sending one light and two mini-carriers towards Venezuela.
Jumper: "The US cottage industry of Coups and Regime change is what is responsible for all the death and destruction."
That is complete Russian mythological nonsense.
Jumper: "Had we not armed the Nazi’s in Ukraine, especially the one just executed on the street in Ukraine this past week [Ukraine's parliament speaker, Andriy Parubiy], who photographed during the coup riots carrying sniper rifles before and during the shooting, but then why bring up the fact that the US started a bloody coup that brought nationalist thugs to power who began NATOs open war against Russia."
Ukraine MP Andriy Parubiy, February 14, 2014:
OK, one by one:
Vlad's stooge-traitor Pres. Yanukovych:

Yanukovych's Uniformed snipers, February 18, 2014:

There is a non-zero chance that Russians, Chinese, NORKs, Iranians or other nefarious actors (i.e., Maduro in Venezuela) will start a shooting war against the United States.
There is 100% certainty they will deeply regret it if they do.
Pres. Trump makes Peace Through Strength.
F.A.F.O. Russkiy Mirovich
Sober, thoughtful and accurate Post.
Zeepers run wild on this site.
That should stop.
All the Spamming should stop.
You’re accusing me of being a zeeper, lol. How about lovin’ communist, even more funny. I’m a Vietnam era Vet. You honestly think I have a love for communist? Buddy, your tagline says it all. Blessing FRiend, no stressing.
This is the real story. Trump should never have trusted Modi.
You realize that there’s pictures of President Trump and Modi holding hands, right?
Right?
Modi did.
What’s the point?
It devolves from the Classical Greek and perhaps before, that holding hands reduces each man's ability to draw a weapon.
I'd wear a joy buzzer or better yet, smear my hand with superglue to teach that Brahmin fakir bullshitter a permanent lesson.
It should not be a surprise. Countries will always act in their best interest unless forced to do otherwise by a stronger force. The Indian foreign minister has often lashed back at journalists questioning him on why India buys cheap Russian oil (the answer is in the ‘cheap’). It would be folly for a country to stop buying a key national resource that they do not have domestically simply because of a war they have nothing to do with.
He also often retorts that European countries continued to purchase Russian oil after the war started as they had not yet gotten proper replacements, and only started pressuring India when their (the Europeans) stock was more adequate. It comes across as hypocrisy, and in all honesty, it is.
So, not really surprising.
It would be like India expecting the United Kingdom not to purchase basmati rice from Pakistan simply because India is not cordial with Pakistani, and UK purchases of Pakistani rice will mean more funds that Islamabad can purchase to potentially use against India.
The whole UK would laugh hard at India and find their request foolish.
Replace Pakistan with Russia, and simple rice with cheap oil, and you can see why India would rather face 50% tariffs from the US (especially when they can trade elsewhere) than sabotage themselves from an energy perspective.
Not surprising, and it is not meant to be anti-Trump (in the same way the UK laughing at the Pakistani-rice example would not be anti-Modi).
And crossing The U.S. may not be in India’s best interest. India hanging out with Russia and China as both countries are trying to make a statement of unity against The U.S. is what surprised me.
At the end of the day India will always act in what they believe to be their best interest. Of course, they could find out that they were wrong.
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