Can American leadership become any more idiotic than this? — Now we are threatening India with sanctions

© 2022 Peter Free

 

04 March 2022

 

 

In practice, US neoconservatism is synonymous with nihilism

 

It was, evidently, not enough for the United States to drive Russia's 146 million and China's 1.45 billion people together into an informal alliance against us.

 

Now, we are probably going to add India's 1.4 billion people to that group:

 

 

The Biden administration is weighing whether to impose sanctions against India over its stockpile of and reliance on Russian military equipment as part of the wide-ranging consequences the West is seeking to impose on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.

 

Donald Lu, the assistant secretary of State for South Asian affairs, on Thursday told lawmakers in a hearing that the administration is weighing how threatening India's historically close military relationship with Russia is to U.S. security.

 

“It’s a question we’re looking at very closely, as the administration is looking at the broader question over whether to apply sanctions under CAATSA or to waive those sanctions,” Lu said. 

 

The Countering American Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, passed in 2017 in the wake of the Kremlin’s interference in U.S. elections, includes the authority to sanction transactions with Russian defense or intelligence sectors.

 

© 2022 Laura Kelly, Biden weighing sanctions on India over Russian military stockpiles, The Hill (03 March 2022)

 

 

American stupidity is destroying the very things . . .

 

. . . that gave us non-hostile (even admirable) clout in the world:

 

 

soft power

 

and

 

our virtually complete control of the international banking system.

 

 

When we make economically significant nations like China and India — and a militarily significant one like nuclear Russia — suffer exactly because they are part of the Western controlled financial system, what do you think that they will do?

 

 

The moral? — Knowingly electing a president with visible dementia . . .

 

. . . after experiencing an immediately previous one, who grandiosely displayed an easily predictable lazy incompetence — loudly signaled the United States' determined wish to strangle itself to death in public.

 

Is there a Suicide Line that we can call?

 

Maybe Paul Revere's ghost can get his horse ready.

 

We are being treated to the exceedingly strange phenomenon of the American Oligarchy damaging its own financial base by fatuously overreaching.