“US envoy’s ‘undiplomatic’ rant on PM Modi’s Russia visit: It’s time America stopped taking India for granted”, First Post, July 13, 2024:
“There’s something disconcerting about democracy: It often works at cross-purposes, acting as much to strengthen democratic forces as to empower their existential adversaries. One saw them with the Americans, who, for decades, worked in close coordination with the dictators of West Asia while at the same time colluding with their detractors in the name of democracy.
So much so that Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt with an iron fist for three decades until 2011, when he was dethroned by the Arab Spring, a result of the grand American wet dream to turn West Asia into a paradise for democracy, once rebuked a top American diplomat, saying if he followed what he exhorted, Cairo would be ruled by Islamists.
Sadly, the Arab Spring saw a series of West Asian countries overtaken by Islamists through electoral processes……”
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