If you don’t do what the US wants, they start to undermine the legitimacy of your regime with human rights talk. This is what happened here. India didn’t play ball on sanctions against Russia, and suddenly Blinken is talking about human rights abuses. Now India is just retorting.
That’s perfectly reasonable. Unfortunately, Jaishankar seems to think of this as revenge against the Americans. He shouldn’t. Commentary from abroad should never be regarded as a threat to sovereignty in a mature democracy; India has the right to comment on the US regardless of whether the South Block thinks that there has been some provocation previously, and vice versa.
One is reminded of Sir Roger Casement, who was knighted for his work in exposing and opposing human rights abuses in Peru, then hung for doing the same in the British Empire. Fighting for human rights in other countries has always been far easier and more profitable than doing the same in your own.
US condemnds Indian human rights because it's not on side with respect to Russia -> India condemns US in retaliation...<p>Amazing how self serving most geopolitical moves are.
Very brave of India to come forward and say this. The whole world should join them and condemn the treatment of minorities in the U.S. and in the case of native Americans, the centuries long, drawn-out genocide.