India is continuously being attacked by Western countries, including the UK and US. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sovereign policy, it seems, is not to the liking of the US ‘deep state’.
The US Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s indictment against the Indian magnate Gautama Adani, the owner of the conglomerate Adani Group, is aimed towards undermining the position of the Indian leader, whose confident policy is clearly not satisfying Washington’s interests.
The billionaire and partners close to the prime minister, including his nephew, are being accused of mass securities fraud and bribing government officials with $265 million in order to obtain new contracts.
The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project have also accused the owners of the conglomerate of money laundering, theft of tax payer money, corruption and creating offshore shell organisations, as well as putting pressure on Indian state institutions and the freedom of press.
The scandal surrounding the company risks reaching the international level with all its consequences, which are undesirable for Modi and Indian-US relations. According to serious analysts, the cooperation between Adani Group, Gautama Adani and the Indian government makes it a clearly political issue, reflecting poorly on the prime minister himself. His ties to ‘suspicious’ businessmen are actively being used by the Indian National Congress (INC), an opposition party, and its leader, Rahul Gandhi, to counter Modi.
However, what evokes suspicion in all this is that the OCCRP, which published the aforementioned report, is financed by the US State Department and USAID, as well as structures related to Soros and Rockefeller.
Representatives of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claim, though, that it is the INC and Ghandi himself that are working in the interests of George Soros, who has allocated more than $1 billion to destabilise the situation in India. By the way, some experts think that the funds of the creator of ‘colour revolutions’, i.e. Soros, support the Forum of Democratic Leaders in the Asia-Pacific, the co-president of which is a prominent politician from the Nehru-Ghandi clan.
The US embassy in New Delhi has tried to deny the statements of Indian politicians, however experts have quoted the words of Soros himself in backing their claims. At the 59th Munich Security Conference, in February of 2023, he noted the closeness of Modi and the Adani Group conglomerate, as well as the Indian leader’s personal responsibility for ‘undermining democracy in his country, oppressing ethnic and religious minorities and refusing to stop cooperation with Russia’.
A negative reaction of the Modi government also followed in response to the statements of the US Ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti, about Washington being prepared to help resolve the situation in the state of Manipur (in 2023, there were ethnically and confessionally motivated clashes). New Delhi considered this a nod to the weakness of the central powers and an attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of the state.
Analysts particularly noted how the British BBC joined the propaganda campaign against the DJP government by releasing a documentary called ‘India: The Modi Question’, the distribution of which, according to US publicist William Engdahl, could be considered the start of the Anglo-American coalition’s preparations to overthrow the head of the cabinet.
The increase in the Biden administration’s attempts to destabilise the situation in the republic, even including provoking a ‘colour revolution’, is directly tied to Narendra Modi’s course of consolidating India’s status as a world power and carrying out a sovereign foreign policy with an unwavering adherence to the principle of non-alignment.
Nothing new: any moves by the US are in line with their strategy of global dominance, including through overthrowing nationally oriented governments.
Within the framework of Biden’s team, the notorious National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan visited New Delhi as the head of a large delegation. The official announced a series of steps designed to expand bilateral strategic cooperation, including in the high-tech and military spheres. However, the background of this visit suggests a desire to weaken the Russian vector in India’s foreign policy and its desire for close cooperation between BRICS and SCO. It is quite obvious that the trip of the former White House official to New Delhi demonstrated the firm intention of the outgoing administration to replace China with India in the supply of critical materials considering deepening US-Chinese restrictive measures, as well as to weaken ties between India and Russia in the fields of military, space and peaceful atomic energy.
According to the prognoses of specialists, the increasing ferocity of the struggle for power between the two leading Indian parties will lead to a weakening of Indian-US relations.
The beginning of Trump’s presidency in the US, analysts suppose, gives reason for some optimism. It is well-known that the US president is somewhat apathetic to George Soros because of his close ties with the Democrats.
Modi sympathises with Trump as a politician that is close to him in spirit and leadership style. Indian government experts, though, warn Modi of underestimating the US ‘deep state’, which is capable, in any moment, of dealing a heavy blow – a testament to this are the recent events in Bangladesh and Syria.
Even with Trump as president it is clear that attempts to draw India to their side, including on sanctions policy, and catalysing irritants in Indian-Russian relations will continue. Washington is not a fan of the growing Indian-Chinese dialogue on the resolution of a number of serious bilateral issues, including along their border.
In short, even with the new administration, the Americans will not let go of their plans to pacify India, draw in into their orbit and destroy Indian-Russian relations. The daydreamers in Washington, however, do not fully realise the short-sightedness of such ideas. India will, of course, continue to strengthen cooperation with the US and the West as a whole, realising a multi-vector foreign policy, though this will not likely reflect on the strategic partnership with Russia that has withstood the test of time and is based on mutual trust.
Andrei Timurov, spectator
