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:Another update. Trump is reportedly having second thoughts about his new India policy, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/08/30/trumps-double-humiliation-xi-embraces-modi-putin/ but the damage is already done]. Modi is refusing to take his calls, and instead trying to reconcile with China. My guess is this is because Modi, like Putin before him, has finally concluded that the neocons cannot be negotiated with and are thus the greater evil compared to China. So going forward we should expect India to leave the Quad, increase its participation with the SCO, and perhaps even begin supporting anti-American proxies in armed conflicts around the world. In that case, Trump just committed one of the biggest foreign policy blunders in American history, which will forever be a stain on his legacy. Hope it was worth it, Mr. President.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 11:20, August 31, 2025 (EDT)

:Another update. Trump is reportedly having second thoughts about his new India policy, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/08/30/trumps-double-humiliation-xi-embraces-modi-putin/ but the damage is already done]. Modi is refusing to take his calls, and instead trying to reconcile with China. My guess is this is because Modi, like Putin before him, has finally concluded that the neocons cannot be negotiated with and are thus the greater evil compared to China. So going forward we should expect India to leave the Quad, increase its participation with the SCO, and perhaps even begin supporting anti-American proxies in armed conflicts around the world. In that case, Trump just committed one of the biggest foreign policy blunders in American history, which will forever be a stain on his legacy. Hope it was worth it, Mr. President.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 11:20, August 31, 2025 (EDT)

::Modi is giving Trump as taste of his own medicine - the overseer of the world's 3rd largest economy is too busy to take Trump's calls. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|''Zelensky Must Go!'']]}

::Modi is giving Trump as taste of his own medicine - the overseer of the world's 3rd largest economy is too busy to take Trump's calls. We were so hopeful at the [https://youtu.be/dJR1xC7GzkU 2019 Howdy Modi summit] in Houston. I'm sure Modi & Indians view it as a betrayal. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|''Zelensky Must Go!'']]}

:Yet another update. It appears Peter Navarro is so triggered by India continuing to buy Russian oil that [https://x.com/mtracey/status/1960873885039255755 he is now promoting a revisionist narrative] absolving Obama, Biden, the Deep State, and the Maidan regime of responsibility for the Ukrainian war. He's literally calling it "Modi's War", unironically. At this point, Trump's second term policies feel (to me) more like a ''parody'' of "MAGA" and "America First" than the real things.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 11:41, August 31, 2025 (EDT)

:Yet another update. It appears Peter Navarro is so triggered by India continuing to buy Russian oil that [https://x.com/mtracey/status/1960873885039255755 he is now promoting a revisionist narrative] absolving Obama, Biden, the Deep State, and the Maidan regime of responsibility for the Ukrainian war. He's literally calling it "Modi's War", unironically. At this point, Trump's second term policies feel (to me) more like a ''parody'' of "MAGA" and "America First" than the real things.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 11:41, August 31, 2025 (EDT)

::One can see and agree with Trump's overall objectives, but [[Trump tariff]]'s policy is being rushed in his second term. What he started in his first term, trying to undo 70 years of bad economic & [[trade]] policy, was disrupted by the [[Russia hoax]]. You can't compress 8 consecutive years into 3 years without [[inflation]]ary effects.

::One can see and agree with Trump's overall objectives, but [[Trump tariff]]'s policy is being rushed in his second term. What he started in his first term, trying to undo 70 years of bad economic & [[trade]] policy, was disrupted by the [[Russia hoax]]. You can't compress 8 consecutive years into 3 years without [[inflation]]ary effects. Biggest impact on [[pharmaceutical]] prices, I understand.

::Brazilian update: The 10 oz package of Expresso I paid $2 for a year ago now sells for $7. If this continues, Trump and [[Republican]]s will be blamed for [[inflation]]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|''Zelensky Must Go!'']]} 12:31, August 31, 2025 (EDT)

::Brazilian update: The 10 oz package of Expresso I paid $2 for a year ago now sells for $7. If this continues, Trump and [[Republican]]s will be blamed for [[inflation]]. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|''Zelensky Must Go!'']]} 12:31, August 31, 2025 (EDT)