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India officially surpasses Japan to become the 4th largest economy in the world, hitting a $4.19 trillion GDP milestone, according to the IMF.
India’s foreign policy today is a geopolitical caste system: playing Brahmin to the West, Kshatriya to the Russians, and treating fellow Asians, especially the Chinese, as if they were Dalits in a fake Indo-Pacific order cooked up by Foggy Bottom. (1/9)
At BRICS, India talks multipolarity but won’t join RCEP. It buys oil from Russia, then signs weapons deals with the Pentagon. It dreams of replacing China in the supply chain while still importing Made-in-China plastic gods and tricycles. (2/11)
In the QUAD, India cosplays as a Pacific power. Yet its navy relies on Moscow for spare parts. It chants “freedom of navigation” while shutting down its own internet more often than Gaza. Projection is not power. (3/11)
The Indo-Pacific is a bespoke colonial hallucination. It erases Asia’s civilizational depth and casts India as a junior partner to Australia and Japan against China. Delhi buys in because it flatters its caste-soaked elites. (4/11)
Delhi lectures China on rules-based order but can't keep Manipur from burning. It wants to lead Asia while treating ASEAN as errand boys and sneering at the Global South. Beijing sees through it. So does everyone else. (5/11)
India wants to be a civilizational peer but behaves like a middleman. It wants strategic autonomy but signs defense pacts with Washington. It wants to lead BRICS while cheering G7 photo-ops. It wants everything, but owns nothing. (6/11)
This is not grand strategy. It is postcolonial schizophrenia. A nation still mentally colonized, addicted to Western validation, yet allergic to real multipolarity when China is in the room. (7/11)
India treats fellow Asians like geopolitical Dalits. It scoffs at Chinese tech, ASEAN diplomacy, and African voices. But without Western scriptwriters, it can't finish a sentence. (8/11)
Washington doesn’t trust India. It sees a fence-sitter, not a pillar. Moscow sees a backstabber. Beijing sees a confused rival, begging for FDI while banning Chinese apps. The Global South sees a caste state in denial. (9/11)
India is not the new China. It’s the new Turkey, playing all sides with civilizational cosplay and zero follow-through. Eventually, the tightrope breaks. Nobody bets on a country that treats itself as a civilization but acts like a subcontractor. (10/11)
India has a choice: become a real civilizational peer, or keep serving as cannon fodder in America’s Indo-Pacific circus. Straddling BRICS and QUAD while sneering at Asia isn’t strategy. It’s self-destruction. (11/11)