Ukraine can’t believe Indian leader met “bloody criminal” Russian ruler on day of children’s hospital bombing.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday criticized Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for embracing Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow on the day the Kremlin’s forces bombed a children’s hospital in Kyiv.
“It is a huge disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts to see the leader of the world’s largest democracy hug the world’s most bloody criminal in Moscow on such a day,” Zelenskyy wrote, referring to the deadly Russian attacks.
Modi arrived in Moscow on Monday for a two-day state visit, marking his first trip to Russia since it began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
In a video clip that went viral Monday evening, Modi climbed out of a car, walked up some steps to meet Putin, and gave the Russian president a warm hug.
India is showing a terrible double standard, they are hesitant towards the west, because India was once a British colony.
That is understandable.
But to support and “embrace” Russia when they are doing the same even worse to Ukraine is a disgusting double standard.Shame on you India, for not changing with the times. Russia is obviously the evil empire today, even threatening nuclear war that could destroy life on earth.
You forget that India wants to be an evil empire today.
I was not aware of that, in what sense?
Well Modi’s ruling a wannabe fascist genocidal party.
Hindu nationalists dream of expanding into neighbouring states because historical borders at some period or whatever.
Ruthless capitalists like Adani who fuck over countries around the world to extract their wealth.
Etc.
Also they seem unwilling to crack down on scammers and hackers preying on the west, so they should pair well with their Russian counterparts who do the same but are much more sophisticated.
they also refuse to crack down on their people immigrating to the west in droves via…surprise, surprise…scamming. They scam their way into countries by lying and falsifying documents. Saying their immigrating to go to school when in truth they’re doing it for the easy PR status. Essentially travelling half way across the world to attend a community college and get a degree or certification in a minium wage field. And they can barely do that as most fail their community college classes. you essentially have “businesses” in india set up purely to scam people into a western country.
But they provide cheap and exploitable labor for companies in countries they immigrat to and they’re too ignorant to realize they’re being exploited. And then you have the Indians who immigrated legitimately and start their own businesses now being shaken down by organized Indian gangs who entered the country the same way the “students” did in order to scam “protection money” that gets sent right back to crime families in India.
If there’s one country that needs to be sanctioned and it’s people barred from entering a country it’s India. at least until they get their own house in order. I guarantee you in a few years they’ll be no better than russia.
Do explain the Hindu’ nationalists dream of expanding into neighbouring states because historical borders at some period or whatever’ part. I am unaware
I’m not familiar with the politics of Modi’s party, but if I had to guess based on “historic borders”, that would probably be Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Nepal.
John Oliver talks about it on this episode of Last Week Tonight.
Thanks, although that was a bit depressing, I was not aware he is this bad, and I checked other sources too.
Probably just wants to be a scamming empire
Blame the conservatives… same as… checks notes everywhere?
Yes unfortunately it seems the right is getting more extreme almost everywhere.
As we enter late stage capitalism, with wages stagnating and cost of living going way out of control, people are looking for someone to blame.
And for conservatives, if there is anyone to blame it’s always immigrants, gays, and liberals. In that order.
Never the capital class.
A lot of irony going on. Like the Jewish state doing what was done to them throughout out history to others now.
A big reason is India is getting cheaper Russian gas and oil since Europe has stopped or lowered its imports.
Modi doesn’t have to embrace Putin for that, Putin is desperate and has to take what he can get.
doing the same even worse to Ukraine is a disgusting double standard
This is grossly understating how terrible British colonial rule was. Britain committed multiple genocides including by starvation, up until even the 40s in its colonies, including areas that are now India.
Events like the Bucha massacre were basically just another Tuesday under British colonial rule.
Lets not revise the history of one imperialist genocidal shithole to criticize another imperialist genocidal shithole
OK AFAIK UK did not cause evacuation of more than 10% of the population, they didn’t bomb schools and kindergartens, or destroy infrastructure to a point to make areas unlivable, and bomb cities until there is nothing left, or explode dams flooding large inhabited areas and risking nuclear incidents. Or cause half a generation of young men to be lost.
But I admit my knowledge of the occupation of India is limited. And I 100% grant it was bad. But were conditions honestly worse than they would have been under the former rulers? I suppose there was a reason India was relatively easy for UK to take.
India had lots of problems before UK invaded, way more than Ukraine, and most Ukraines problems was from hostilities from Russia that preceded the war.Fortunately UK ended up leaving India voluntarily, which is the opposite of what Russia is doing, Russia left Ukraine in 1991, but then turned around and invaded, despite Ukraine had done nothing to provoke this.
British rule in India was objectively worse. Much more people displaced, much more people killed. And “was easy to take” is a quite shit argument to create “perspective” on these kind of atrocities.
The British empire got away without facing any real consequences and is fairly effective at controlling the cultural and societal narrative about it. But it is in one league with Maos China or Stalins Sovjet Union.
Also considering Holodomor, what Russia is currently doing is not as devastating in humanitarian terms like what Stalins reign brought.
OK I’ll grant that’s pretty horrible, maybe it seemed less so in history class, because complete inhumanity seemed more common back then?
He’s a disappointment for lots of reasons.
It’ll get interesting for India when their conflict with china really heats up.
It’s okay Russia will have their back, I’m sure China will send them the weapons to send to Indi… wait a minute.
Ain’t it the truth
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday criticized Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for embracing Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow on the day the Kremlin’s forces bombed a children’s hospital in Kyiv.
Modi arrived in Moscow on Monday for a two-day state visit, marking his first trip to Russia since it began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
In a video clip that went viral Monday evening, Modi climbed out of a car, walked up some steps to meet Putin, and gave the Russian president a warm hug.
Earlier the same day, Russia launched a mass missile attack against Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and other cities in Ukraine, killing at least 42 people and injuring at least 206.
Modi did not address the strikes while speaking to the Indian diaspora in Moscow on Tuesday, but praised relations between the two countries, calling Russia a “reliable friend.”
He also announced the opening of two new Indian consulates in Russia and hailed his “friend” Putin for working toward developing the partnership between the two countries.
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Huge disappointment? Does that mean he had high hopes for a nationalist? That’s just silly.
Alternative headline: Zelenskyy previously unaware of everything Modi has said and done.
How the hell did he manage to know ANYTHING about Modi and still be surprised enough to be disappointed??
Because hes not surprised. This is entirely expected
He’s commenting on it to draw attention to it
I thought that was obvious
It sounded too surprised for some of us.
Is Zelensky not a huge disappointment for supporting Israel?
Doesn’t mean he’s wrong but kettles and all that.
We kinda need to align with US stance since we do still need those delicious delicious weapons to defends ourselves with. I don’t agree with it, but I also kinda want to survive the war
Meanwhile Russia uses Israeli drones to target you with their Artillery. They were even sold after Crimea was already invaded and Israel conveniently did not sanction Russia even when the main invasion happened in 2022.
Zelensky is sucking up to people who are fine with and even helping in you getting murdered. You are also victims of Zionism
If you want to side with genocide to protect yourself, you lose all right to complain about Russias plans for genocide.
Did you, perchance, miss the part where I don’t agree with it?
No, nor did I miss the part where you tried to justify it; As if you can excuse genocide elsewhere because you think your life is more important.
Is your life more important, then? If not, you’re more than welcome to visit
So you agree, you justified genocide?
I don’t care why you’re doing it.
