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The Funny Farm: India, BRICS, the Indus Waters Treaty and the War Over Reality
Samuel Trapp uses India’s foreign policy to test the good-guy/bad-guy categories that dominate Western political discussion. India is a U.S. strategic partner and Quad participant, but it also chairs BRICS, buys Russian energy, manages an unresolved border dispute with China, reopens trade with Beijing and confronts Pakistan over security and water. Samuel argues that India’s approach is not contradictory; it is compartmentalized diplomacy, allowing cooperation where interests converge without erasing genuine disputes.
The episode examines Pakistan’s declaration that water is a red line…
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