“Opinion | Why Rising India Faces Anglo-American Pushback”, News 18, January 27, 2024:
Whenever the United States-led Anglosphere sees a potential threat to its global hegemony, it acts swiftly and ruthlessly.
Germany was a growing threat in 1914. By 1945, two world wars later, Germany was neutralised. After nearly 80 years, it remains an obedient ally of the US.
Japan received the same treatment, though it took two atomic bombs and over 2,50,000 lives to end Japan’s military threat in the east.
The Soviet Union posed a tougher challenge. It controlled over a dozen European countries right up to the doorstep of (then) West Germany. It took the US 40 years to dismantle the Soviet threat to its global hegemony.
Having dismembered former Soviet satellites like Yugoslavia into several small separate countries, the US enjoyed a brief moment of being the world’s only superpower between 1990 and 2010…..”
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