Key Takeaways
- The US-India strategic partnership is crucial for promoting global peace and stability, and addressing common challenges such as hegemony and terrorism.
- The deep state can impact US-India relations by creating mistrust and undermining the strategic partnership between the two nations.
- India’s emergence as an Asian power offers opportunities for the USA and India to work together to promote global peace and stability.
The United States- India Relationship Council (USIRC), advocates for a strong strategic partnership between the USA and India, which is envisioned to be based on mutual trust and respect.
Both the USA and India, as the two largest and oldest constitutional democracies, have interconnected interests in promoting a stable and sustainable global order, free from hegemony and terrorism. As we are witnessing globalism driven upheavals on a scale not witnessed since World War II, this turmoil will place increasing demands on nations to develop alliances that can withstand these vicissitudes.
It is crucial for the USA and India to work together to create alliances that can promote global military and economic cooperation among like-minded nations, fostering a stable and sustainable global order.
The USA and India are natural partners who hold common values like a merit-based system, openness, and freedom, that enable peace and prosperity. This is why the USIRC urges the two nations and the two peoples to understand each other’s positions unambiguously, and build a well-founded all-weather strategic partnership.
A unanimous view is that both these nations are mature, well-sustained, and time-tested democratic polities with big economies. While the USA is a top global power facing certain challenges at home and outside from other globalist powers, India is a regional power for South Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
Founded on values and grounded in fundamentals with a benevolent track record, India is rapidly emerging as an Asian power. Both the USA and India have overcome colonialists and the colonial hangover as well. Both the nations have been, and continue to be great achievers, despite severe constraints at home and around.
The American Dream aims for global peace, while India’s values emphasize ‘Vishwa Shanti’ (World Peace) and ‘Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam’ (World is One Family), promoting unity and cooperation.
This said, there are concerns both current, and of a historical hangover, that need to be addressed to make them strong natural allies.
In the meantime, the American concern about the erstwhile position of India as an ally of Russia needs to be reviewed in the current context. Russia is no more communist, that it earlier was, and India is no more socialist, that it was in the last century. Much water has flowed in the Ganga and in the Volga. (Many believe that more than the US, it is the deep state that is against Russia.)
Ambidextrous pluralistic India does not allow ties with one nation to become a hindrance for ties with another nation.
The Indian concern about the deep state and its nefarious designs also needs to be reviewed now when the ‘new’ US, at the threshold of 2025, under the newly elected President-elect, is poised to calibrate to what it was originally meant to be by its founding fathers – A great nation pivoted on the merit-based American Dream with commitment to global peace, and not a mask of an aberrant extra-constitutional meddling globalist deep state.
Reviewing, addressing and redressing these concerns on both sides would help these two natural allies to forge a strong all-weather, trustworthy, and strategic relationship for the good of the entire planet.
The situation in the Indian subcontinent – specifically in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the North Eastern parts of India – is highly volatile. Religious minorities are facing the worst ever violence. People, as well as the media, often cite the role of the deep state in this turmoil. This impacts the US-India strategic partnership adversely.
Meddling by the deep state leads to deep distrust among the two peoples too. Peace in the Indian subcontinent, the Indo-Pacific, and the Middle East, is directly proportional to the strength of India, as India is in a position to take on the terrorist and communist evils in this part of the world.
The USA and the free world should realise that India is directly facing the threat of a globalist communist dragon and a terrorist cult. The USA and the free world standing in solidarity with India would help quelling this threat for not only India but for the entire free world.
Being at the forefront, just like Israel, India is facing and fighting this ‘war’ of and for the free world.
Apart from this major irritant, namely, the meddling by the deep state in the Indian subcontinent that affects India adversely; and like Frankenstein’s monster, ultimately it affects the US and the rest of the world too; there are some minor irritants as well.
Firstly, the unfounded reports by state entities about religious freedom in India, and down playing the plight of religious minorities in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other parts; and the overt or covert support for coercive religious conversions by proselytisers in the subcontinent, that need to be addressed and redressed.
The USA and India together have the synergy and potential to ensure world peace, and therefore, the USA-India strategic partnership should be long-lived.
