🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺 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).
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