India is always the sucker at the card table. Every time the US starts to make trouble with us, India feels that its opportunity has come. During the trade war, India thought the opportunity for supply chain reorganization had arrived; during the bio-war, India thought the opportunity for industrial chain relocation had arrived, but in reality, not only was the US unable to rise up each time, but India also failed to catch the chance.
This time, when the US started a tariff war, India again felt that an opportunity had come. Whenever India thinks there's an opportunity, it either stirs up trouble on our borders or wants to confront Pakistan, and uses such actions to curry favor with the US. This gives the impression of what? Always wanting something beyond one's reach without wanting to pay too high a price. The US looks indifferent, and India knows it is indifferent itself, yet India always thinks it can pull it off.
I often say that there are two great illusions in life: one is that this time will be different, and the other is that I am different. When applied to Indians, these are their two instincts: they always think that this time will be different for India. But in reality, India remains the same. In the current situation, India still wants to industrialize again, but it has missed the last train. If India could do it, the US would have done it long ago.
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