🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺 HOW INDIA AND RUSSIA ESCAPED WEST’S NEOCOLONIAL TRAP

 🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺 HOW INDIA AND RUSSIA ESCAPED WEST’S NEOCOLONIAL TRAP

When the West aimed to turn India into a consumer market & Russia into a resource hubs, these two giants said NO.

WESTERN EXPANSION

🇮🇳 India:

1991 crisis: India’s gold pledged to the IMF for a $2.2B loan. 

Conditions included:

▪️Opening markets to Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Monsanto.

▪️Cutting agricultural subsidies.

🇺🇸Tech Dependence: 90% of software and electronics imported from the US.

🇷🇺 Russia:

▪️Price liberalisation & mass privatisation under US guidance.

▪️75% of industry sold cheaply (Yukos: $300M, worth $30B later).

▪️Hyperinflation 2,500% (1992), 40% in poverty.

West’s goal was to turn Russia into a resource colony, India into a consumer market.

COUNTER-MOVES IN THE 1990s

🇮🇳 India:

▪️1998 Nuclear tests: US sanctions followed, but India became a nuclear power.

▪️India banned Monsanto’s GM seeds (1998), barred foreign firms from buying land (1999).

🇷🇺 Russia:

Refused total surrender:

▪️In 1996, Russia blocked the sale of Rosneft (saving the core of the oil industry).

▪️Nuclear shield: Russia maintained 6,000+ warheads despite US pressure.

2000s: THE REVENGE BEGINS

🇮🇳 India:

▪️In 2005, India blocked foreign retail chains to protect small businesses.

▪️In 2007, India launched IRNSS, its own GPS alternative.

▪️It signed a defence deal with Russia to buy 250 Su-30MKIs.

🇷🇺 Russia:

▪️Russia created Gazprom and Rosneft as tools of sovereignty.

▪️It repaid $22B in debt by 2005, exiting the IMF's control.

🇮🇳🤝🇷🇺 SHARED EFFORTS:

▪️LNG deals: Russia's Gazprom and Indian firms launched joint projects (e.g., Sakhalin-2, 2009).

▪️INDRA Military Drills: First joint exercises in 2003, IGNORING U.S. protests.

KEY ACTS OF DEFIANCE

1. 🇷🇺 Russia

Russia is fighting in Ukraine to prevent NATO’s expansion to its borders.

2. 🇮🇳 India vs Tech Dominance

India banned Microsoft from govt contracts in 2004.

In 2009, India created Aadhaar, its digital ID system (1.3B users by 2024).