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The schizo relationship that US has with India may not really change even if Trump gets elected. This election is now a fight between establishment billionaires and the libertarian billionaires - essentially musk/thiel vs the rest. On the positive side - if trump has a remote chance of taking oath, establishment will start fighting him on Nov 6 on and hopefully gets distracted. On the other hand, if Trump does indeed take oath - by the time he gets to third or 4th level of appointments it would be three years anyways. So ultimately it wouldn't make too much of a difference anyways.

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yes, agreed that the deep state is well entrenched. but if you listen to, say, Elon musk or Vivek Ramaswamy, they are making loud noises about eliminating entire layers of the regulatory state. and it's not impossible. in Argentina Javier milei did exactly that recently. so, as you said, if they allow trump to take over, and don't bump him off, maybe things will get better. so i am more optimistic than you. I think the Woke Century is over and done with in just 4-5 years.

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