Posted on 09/06/2025 1:38:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said India and Russia seem to have been "lost" to China after their leaders met with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, expressing his annoyance at New Delhi and Moscow as Beijing pushes a new world order.
"Looks like we've lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and prosperous future together!" Trump wrote in a social media post accompanying a photo of the three leaders together at Xi's summit in China.
Putin and Modi were seen holding hands at the summit as they walked toward Xi before all three men stood side by side.
"I'll always be friends with Modi," Trump told reporters on Friday. "He's a great prime minister. He's great. I'll always...
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Don’t think navarro gave him correct advice on hitting india with 50% tariffs for something lots of other countries are doing... but not punishing any of them.
If they are lost to china maybe a 50% tariff nuke pushed them there very hard.
Because there has been a border dispute between India and China since the 1950s, I don’t see India as a willing partner of the Chinese.
WE should not wish to add India to the Axis of Evil. No need to make our enemies stronger. Lots of Indians have good reason to dislike the West and see Russia as their “friend” just as many Egyptians saw Nazi Germany as a natural ally.
Trump’s secondary sanctions could turn out to be a huge miscalculation, with serious long term implications for all of us.
Who would be responsible for that, Donald?
Impossible to understand why all three of them would walk around in public with North Korea psychopath Kim Jong Un.
Agreed. Terrible idea.
What could possibly have led to our ditching India?
Oh, wait: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/pakistan-crypto-council
Because Trump refused to walk away from Ukraine when he should have.
Hmmmmmmm...... Let’s see
President Trump’s “Enemies List”
Islamofascistnazis
Chicoms
The Deep State
And finally, Leftist Creepozoid democRATS and DemoKKKrats who despise all that is good, right, and just.
Adam Schiff may fall under all of the above since he will support anything that promotes his Anti Americanism.
If the blame is not put on Modi, the blamer is an idiot.
I’m not a cultist, but apparently you are.
No, you’re the blamer I mentioned.
Maybe we should retrieve them.
Navarro did not make the decision.
Modi (through Indian oligarchs) is buying Russian oil for half price.
The oligarchs then sell it on the international market for full price, and split the profit with the Indian government.
The punitive 50% tariffs are Trump's way of saying that India must stop buying Russian oil, and that India must open up its economy to currently banned USA products.
As I said...
We are number 1 militarily for now, and we are very powerful economically, but we are no longer the unrivaled number 1 economically.
In 1960 we were alone >40% of the Worlds GDP. Today we’re like 22%. We do not carry the weight we once did.
China has already passed us up in many aspects: manufacturing they are twice our size (like 200%, no kidding!), in PPP, steel, electric, aluminum, glass, car production.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_motor_vehicle_production (they produce 3 cars for every 1 car produced in the US).
We flexed our muscle with Russia, tried to coerce folks regards BRICS, but what we really did was push folks towards China.
I’m afraid even Brazil is lost at this point. No kidding.
I was talking elsewhere with someone that tried to tell me how I shouldn’t bring China into the Ukraine war issue. That’s funny!
Biden and his idiotic proxy war with Russia, caused BRICS to expand massively in members and power, it gave China a huge economic boost as they filled the void when Western manufactures packed up and left Russia. Within BRICS China has assumed the leadership role, even though Russia is the mastermind behind it. Even China’s war machine has benefitted from this enormously both technologically and in terms of production. India on the fence before, chose Russia and China.
The Ukraine conflict is in every way about China in the bigger picture. The sanctions on Russia largely didn’t work because of China. Example: https://www.ajot.com/images/uploads/article/China_car_chart.png Clothing, cell phones, computers... all that happened is that Russia today is filled with “made in China.”
Meanwhile you still have some morons dreaming of an impending Chinese economic bubble bursting (that’s a dream that gets recycled constantly in conservative news - wishful thinking) and the sanctions bringing down Russia. LOL
I give it 10 years. By then China will even have achieved nuclear parity and will be outspending us for war: https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/teaser/30173.jpeg They already have more manpower and are close to us in military spending in actuality: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/China-Military-Budget-Graphic.png?x85095
In 10 years, we will be confronted with China breathing down our neck like we are breathing down Russia’s today.
We will have to make a choice, do we ultimately go to war to retain our empire, or begin the slow decline as we get displaced from the Pacific Rim, Middle East, and Africa? Do we go MOSTLY peacefully into the night like the UK did post WWII, or fighting like Russia is today?
Again, the same situation Russia finds themselves in today as we gobble them up in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, even along their border in Ukraine, Republic of Georgia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia we will find ourselves in with China.
While Russia is weaker, an older empire in decline, they have a massive defense infrastructure and technological base and that will likely back up China on the way forward (they were built up as a world super-power).
I have a suspicious feeling that China in a few years will dominate our news and political discussion.
Do you really think India isn’t seeing the handwriting on the wall?
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I hope I’m reading more into things than there really is. I really hope I’m just finding those facts that substantiate my predisposed belief (validation error). But as I see things, Ukraine set things in motion regards Russia and China moving closer, India choosing sides, BRICS massively expanding in scope and members, China getting a major economic and military boost. IMHO, Biden was/is a senile old idiot that was a useful tool for anyone that could pay. That man has led us into very dangerous waters long term, even though some think we weakened Russia (which we surely did).
I remember when India and China went to fist city several times in the 1970s and later. Now they are huggy kissy?
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