Expediency and Deceit of the American politics
Can President Donald Trump and American administration be trusted?
American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat James Russel Lowell said, “All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal” and a quote from former U. S. President Ronald Reagan states, “A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers”. The recent utterances of the present flamboyant American President Trump clearly indicate that he is a person whose global political approaches are being guided by political expediency and compromise on the principles of democracy and treating international relationship and global peace as products of a trade. His recent dealings with Indo Pak confrontation and his trade dealings with middle east nations stand as testimonies to his doctrine.
President Trump again perpetuated his lies when he again claimed that he helped ease tensions between India and Pakistan when he said, “…And by the way, I don’t want to say I did, but sure as hell helped settle the problem between Pakistan and India last week, which was getting more hostile.” He further claimed that he talked to countries about trade when he again said, “Let’s do trade instead of do war…. they have been fighting about 1000 years in all fairness,” The blatant lies of the U S president also exposed his lack of knowledge about India Pakistan confrontations and the history behind it. That shows again his belligerence and dogmatism particularly when dealing with India.
President Trump’s antipathy towards India has been exemplified with regard to Apple’s announcement pertaining to manufacturing their product in India. He said, “But now I hear their manufacturing the iPhones in India, when he told Tim Cook of Apple, “You’re my friend. I treated you well. We put up with all the plants that you built in China for years. Now you are coming in with $500 billion (investment). Now I hear you’re building all over India. I don’t want you building in India. India can take care of themselves; they are doing very well. We want you to build here. They’re going to upping their production in the US. You can build in India if you want, to take care of India. India is one of the highest tariff nations in the world. They have offered us a deal when basically they are willing to literally charges us no tariff.” Trump’s claim that India offered a deal of charging no tariff to U S is again a misleading unilateral claim since India has never confirmed any such deal.
President Trump concluded mostly defence deals with Saudi Arabia, Qutar etc. arming the middle east countries. The news of American approval of a potential foreign military sale to Turkey which is a NATO ally, involving AIM-120C-8 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs)and associated support Equipments at an estimated cost of $225 million, has been received with concern in India because the U S made Equipments surely find way to Pakistan to be used against India. The American Government affinity towards dictatorship countries, Islamic nations particularly middle east and authoritarian nations are well known. But since the ceasefire of military confrontation between India and Pakistan for which President Trump took unilateral credit, a paradigm shift towards favouring Pakistan is clearly visible. One of the reasons for this shift in U S policy may be due to India’s independent foreign policy viewed particularly against India’s relationship with Russia.
After US President Trump jumped to take the credit for a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, a reported deal between Islamabad and World Liberty Financial (WLF), in which the president’s family has a 60% stake, is in the spotlight. Just days after the Pahalgam terror attack (April 22), the Pakistan Crypto Council and World Liberty Financial (WLF) officially signed a series of agreements aimed at promoting investment and innovation in the crypto industry. The impact of these agreements cannot be overlooked considering Trump’s crocodile tears after ghastly terror attack by the Pakistan instigated terrorists and his overt support to rogue state Pakistan for perpetuating their terror activities.
Besides, President Trump has normalised relationship and lift sanctions on Syria’s new regime headed by Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the onetime insurgent who last year led the overthrow of former leader Bashar Assad. Further President Trump also appointed two terror operatives Ismail Royer and Shaykh Hamza who belonged to Pakistani Terror groups on White House Panel. These actions show what Trump’s oath to fight terrorism means.
At the time of the Indo Pak military confrontation India vehemently protested against the part release of IMF bailout funding to Pakistan but the open support from China and the tacit support from American administration, Pakistan got their bailout funding. Even though The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slapped 11 new conditions on Pakistan, taking the total conditions to 50 for the release of its next tranche of its bailout programme and warned that tensions with India could heighten risks to the scheme’s fiscal, external, and reform goals. Is Pakistan going to fulfil all the conditions before the next tranche of bailout funds are released? Considering the past records, Pakistan will not fulfil the conditions but get the bailout funds released with the help of its saviours China and USA and they will also divert the funds for perpetuating their sponsored terrorisms with impunity.
Yet another important event happened in Pakistan creates more concern regarding the likely escalation of hostilities between India and Pakistan and more sponsored terror activities. The hardcore religious bigot General Asim Munir, the unbridled power wielding Pakistan Army Chief of Staff whose incitement against Hindus started the Indo Pak confrontation, has been promoted as Field Marshal of the Pakistan Army and the future implications of his deceitful behaviour and religious bigotries can lead to a full-fledged war considering the fact that he is a wounded tiger after the pounding his army got from the recently suspended military operations by Indian armed forces. There is possibility that he will even take over the reign of Pakistan through a military coup.
At this moment of national engagement, I am reminded of what our first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Rawat who was the first person to coin the term ‘Two and a half front war” talked about “facing Pakistan and China on two fronts while having to battle internal enemies masquerading as imminent intellectuals”. An American author once wrote: “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” Beware of the enemy within and do everything that we can to expose them to keep the national unity and safety and security intact. What Winston Churchill said during the II world war is worth recalling, “When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
“The human relationship is purely based on the power of communication. If only we can understand each other well, it would have served the purpose of human welfare and wellbeing without any conflict of interest and misunderstanding.” A lacuna that is very much visible in our external diplomacy is that in spite of our resounding victory in crippling the Pakistani military and terrorist establishments, India did not get any visible international support because of lack an effective communication strategy. “At the structural level, communication links citizens, civil society, the media, and government, forming a framework for national dialogue through which informed public opinion is shaped”. Even though the strategy of the government to send all party delegations to various countries to propagate India’s objectives of its military interventions is in the right direction, an effective global communication strategy should be evolved not only to spread Idia’s objectives to justify its actions but also to counter and blunt the adversaries’ propaganda regarding India’s intentions, integrity and the sovereignty.
“United we stand and divided we fall” is the old saying. At this time of crisis what is required is national unity casting away all our differences, prejudices, prides, and all impediments coming in the way of our national unity by coming together for the beginning, keeping together for progress and working together for success of our nation. Friends, Indians and country men, “Awake, Arise and stop not till the goal is reached.”
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