Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Alliances are important in the battle for influence worldwide and it's not good for America if Trump drives major countries even closer to China than they might naturally have been. And any American leader (including Trump) is between a rock and a hard place in actions to support Ukraine, most all of us are in favor of, while at the same time not making enemies of other countries who do not support Ukraine's independence. Noted, Trump is hitting India hard for buying Putin oil while he is not doing the same with China. Also noted, China has stayed relatively neutral re the Ukraine war.

Modi is another strongman as Trump wants to be, who is diminishing India's democracy as
Erdogan and Orban have Turkey's and Hungary's, and as Trump is doing in America.

Blueprints reveal luxury on ‘Putin-esque’ estate owned by Hungarian PM’s family
https://tvpworld.com/88668193/blueprints-reveal-luxury-on-putin-esque-estate-owned-by-hungarian-pms-family

See:

Trump and Modi are the mainstream faces of the global far right

"Indian protesters set fire to train stations over new law opening citizenship to some migrants
"India anyone? Is Modi’s India Safe for Muslims?
Hindu nationalism is on the rise in the country with the world’s second-largest Muslim population.""
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The mainstreaming of Trump is now well-known, but no one personifies the mainstreaming and normalization of the far-right better than Modi .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/india , darling of the international business community, who sells India abroad as a modern, rising economic power, while implementing a radical Hindu nationalism (Hindutva) at home. On his travels all around the world, he is rarely confronted with protesters and few journalists will describe him as far right.

And yet, Modi has been involved in Hindutva politics since his childhood – he allegedly joined the extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh .. https://www.npr.org/2019/04/28/717970543/how-indias-rss-fuels-hindu-nationalism (RSS), which has been banned three time in Indian history, at the tender age of eight. And Modi himself was banned .. https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-narendra-modi-was-banned-from-the-u-s-1399062010?tesla=y .. from entering the US for almost a decade, until five years ago, because of his role in the 2002 anti-Muslim pogroms .. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/06/world/asia/modi-gujarat-riots-timeline.html#/ .. in the Indian state of Gujarat. Modi served as chief minister of Gujarat when 1,200 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in Hindu riots.

But things have changed. What was once an electoral liability is now a political asset. In fact, more than anything, Modi and Trump are united in their Islamophobia. Both have turned it into authoritarian policies, criticized by the international community but popular among their respective bases – from Trump’s so-called “Muslim ban” to Modi’s lockdown of the Muslim-majority state of Kashmir .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-kashmir-crisis-isnt-about-territory-its-about-a-hindu-victory-over-islam/2019/08/16/ab84ffe2-bf79-11e9-a5c6-1e74f7ec4a93_story.html .

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Check: Assuming you know what i mean by putting those beneath in italics, back from the post itself, so
the article above is seven back (upstream if that's the correct descriptive) from the article below:

Modi’s Long Game

"Needing Help to Stay in Power, Modi Loses His Aura of Invincibility
"India Modi-fied for a Historic Third Term But with a Check: An Insight into the Indian General Election 2024
"Experts react: Modi loses ground in an electoral surprise. What will his third term look like now?
"Australian journalist says Indian government pressured her to leave
Why Farmers Are Protesting Around the World
"The country where 30 farmers die each day
"Trump and Modi are the mainstream faces of the global far right
"Indian protesters set fire to train stations over new law opening citizenship to some migrants
"India anyone? Is Modi’s India Safe for Muslims?"""""
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India has long been described as “the world’s largest democracy,” although in recent years, it has experienced significant backsliding: Freedom House, the V-Dem Institute, and the Economist Intelligence Unit .. https://pages.eiu.com/rs/753-RIQ-438/images/Democracy-Index-2023-Final-report.pdf?version=0&mkt_tok=NzUzLVJJUS00MzgAAAGTeoWlelu6H9fSEFYnTuHBzni_hb24ncsaqOsrq1ut-sOhQI8fTaYpecmy084QWyZQGbH3_lSrBpjUaE6eQCv-Nu8yhYYG1kHfa2JJIFRZGZtqtA .. have all downgraded India in their rankings, most acutely since 2019, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his second term. Successive Indian governments have weakened human rights, but the process has accelerated under Modi, who has held office since 2014 and limped back last month after an election that saw him lose his governing majority.

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