With its mature behavior, Germany is showing how it has learned lessons from the long and bloody history of European rivalries, by refraining from yet another round of ganging up on Russia. Time and time again, the Germans have participated in such feuds in the past, only to find themselves left out on a limb, at daggers drawn with everyone else. They therefore may be able to appreciate more than most, a need to damp down the latest tit-for-tat cycle of confrontation being led by the Atlanticist hawks trying to demonize Russia.
We Indians should support such sober attitudes by the Germans, because it helps to reduce the influence of the Atlanticists and their irredentism. If the Atlanticist hawks can be politically marginalized on both sides of the Atlantic, then their pro-jihadist games will also be curbed. We don't need them to destabilize our subcontinent any further, and they've already had a long run in messing up Europe.
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We the people may think so, but our leaders do not have such toughness.. They will grovel before the first busybody "under secretary of state" that President Obama sends to solve "Kashmir dispute". It's correct to criticise Congress - but is BJP any better ? Vajpayee was trying to sell Kashmir down the drain for a Nobel Peace prize I guess.. That time, Hurriyat was allowed to openly consult Pakistan embassy in Delhi.We need some strong PM - Modi and/George Fernandes are the only possibilities who might act tough. And indeed, Subramanian Swami should be made the Officer on Special duty in home office with a single point agenda of checking the illegalities of Antonia Maino's citizenship and deport her to Italy.
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