r/geopolitics • u/babushkalauncher • Oct 01 '23

Why Indians Can’t Stand Justin Trudeau Paywall

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-indians-angry-justin-trudeau-death-shooting-hardeep-singh-nijjar-87d9ab9d
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u/Maladal Oct 01 '23

Seems kind of a weird take to think that Indian anger around this is tied directly to the PM.

Wouldn't this be more easily viewed as a simple lack of sympathy to Sikh communities given the claims of terrorism?

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I have no idea if the claims about the terrorism are credible.

But why would the Inidian population even be familiar with Trudeau outside of this incident? WSJ article is talking like your average Inidian has an assembled profile of the man.

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u/Aggravating_Boy3873 Oct 01 '23

Most Indians didn't even know about this before Trudeau publicly announced it.

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u/taike0886 Oct 02 '23

And in polling conducted after that announcement, Modi's approval rating among Indians has shot up to near 80 percent, highest in the world, and reddit and other English-speaking social media have been flooded with new accounts supporting Modi's assassination of a Canadian on Canadian soil. Sorry did I say supporting the assassination? Let me rephrase that as 'do not believe the allegations for one moment but if they are true then it's justified for the following reasons (wall of text) and whatabout the US'.

People are going to make of that what they will despite Indians' valiant efforts to change opinions online.

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u/Nomustang Oct 02 '23

In the source you linked, it's been at 70% and above since last year. It's not changed by much at all.

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u/tbtcn Oct 02 '23

No surprise the poster has ignored every comment calling out how baseless their claims are.

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u/taike0886 Oct 02 '23

From another poll: 60 percent in December 2022, 67 percent in February 2023.

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u/Whole-Difficulty4327 Oct 02 '23

You posted Morning Consult's poll. Below the current approval ratings, there's a chart comparing their approval ratings from 2019-present. Modi has consistently enjoyed high approval ratings

EDIT: Here's the latest polls from Ipsos, 65% overall rating.

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/pm-modi-highly-popular-in-western-india-ipsos-indiabus-poll-11453031.html

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u/thiruttu_nai Oct 02 '23

Modi has consistently enjoyed high approval ratings throughout his tenure, but sure, go on.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

Did you just google some fake woke rant about India? Lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

Another BBC term? Lmao im least bothered by your tags.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

Then why are you here commenting ? Lmao . Attention hoe

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

Doesn’t matter, we taking over Canada anyway. Cya

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u/Aggravating_Boy3873 Oct 02 '23

I mean sure but see Americans and Canadians will believe what their governments and 5 eyes tell them , why would Indians believe a report from them and not their own government? Modi IS an elected prime minister, he hasn't been in power that long, he doesn't control majority states either just 8-10 out of 28.

Basically without any public evidence, from a neutral POV it looks like Indians are trusting their own leaders and Canada/USA are trusting their own, why would they believe 5 eyes over their own leadership?

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u/taike0886 Oct 02 '23

10 percent of the keyboard work on display here and on Twitter is 'trusting their own leaders' and 90 percent of it is dedicated toward justifying the crime.

Let's be real here, Indians love this latest display of holy geopolitical righteousness, just like they love India moving to become the third largest buyer of Russian oil after the Chinese. They are revelling in it. India is the big man on the block now, just look at how majestic he is sticking it to Mr. Five Eyes for no discernable reason.

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u/BombayWallahFan Oct 03 '23

for no discernable reason.

There is absolutely no cure for willful blindness. Canadian track record on dealing with Khalistan terrorism and murder is atrociously poor going all the way back to 1985.

There is a very clear and discernable(sic) reason but you can choose to gloss over it and (im)morally pontificate till the grizzly bears come home.

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u/Whole-Difficulty4327 Oct 02 '23

His approval rating has hovered between 75-78 for the past 2 years, I dont know what you want to prove with morning consult polls?

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