The ongoing Indo-Canadian standoff is very revealing.
1. Jingoistic Journalism and Social Media is detrimental to larger national interests.
2. Leaking diplomatic information should be dealt with severely.
3. The ‘5 Is’ (Five Eyes) form the larger matrix of the Western deep state affixing collective Western policies & deciding latest actions.
4. India should not be fooled about being sought by the West to be in its inner core group.
5. West needs India, either as an united Nation or in fragments for its:
a) immediate geopolitical needs,
b) as a strategic stepping stone for long term economic security interests in IOR, Middle-East, Central Asia & ASEAN region,
c) resources – human & material.
6. Like its earlier support through Pakistan for extremist Islamic Activism & Khalistanis, the West will exploit any other fault-lines within India.
7. The 5I & Deep State core interests & processes will always form the bedrock of all relationships between India & the West even as relationships rise or ebb through times.
8. Our desperately aspirational political parties are open to manipulations for funds & power centrally at the national level (two parties) & through a plethora of political parties at the regional level making us very vulnerable.
9. A strong Central leader / leadership unifying,developing India & planning its independent future, is not amiable to the Western Deep State.
10. The present Indo-Canadian crisis does give India another peek Into the larger & deeper Western power-plays that may help India forestall a WMD moment that this incident seems to be soon becoming that is- the death of a fugitive from Indian Law, an illegal migrant under the Canadian Immigration Law, a criminal accepted as an out-law by Canadian Law Police & RMP (Intelligence) being blamed on India as an excuse to pressurise & arm twist India for an immediate aim or serve as a warning for other vassal nations.
11. This incident may also provide a primer on how deeply compromised are the International Institutions set up after WW-II to maintain & regulate Global peace & the rule of law.
12. This Indo-Canadian Stand-off that may well turn to be an Indo-Western Chill for a dead outlaw (!!?) will lend more credibility to the necessities of new economic, power, polity & security etc groupings such as the BRICS, SCO etc to the detriment of existing Western run groupings that have clearly failed to secure interests of countries other than the Anglopile nations who are the deep masters of the 5Is.
13. With EU countries already suffering due to the policies of the Anglo-5Is, it is a matter of time that inept leaders of the 5Is will loose the monolithic superiority they enjoyed since 1945.
14. What is common between the Trudeaus, Bhutto, Sharifs, Zardaris, Pakistani Generals & Zelenskys & their countries? All are beneficiaries of the deep Anglo-State & accessories to the ‘Five-Eyes’ & will meet similar fates in the words of one of the Secretary of State of US, Hillary Clinton who famously said words to the effect- ‘If you breed snakes in your backyard you can’t expect preferential treatment’
15. A vassal state – Is not what Indians would wish for India
Interesting times to watch.
Col Dilip Sharma (Retired)
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