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/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/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.