There are three plausible reasons for the Biden Administration’s tone-deaf reaction to India’s humanitarian crisis in the #Wuhanvirus vaccine imbroglio:
malign neglect
a woke agenda
a monstrous conspiracy.
As someone who lived half his adult life in the US, I have fond memories of the people and the country, and I have long been an advocate of closer India-US ties. The two are Estranged Democracies1 that share common values. I found the American reaction startling because of:
a) the optics regarding a quasi-ally,
b) the alleged Quad vaccine cooperation,
c) the fact India is the biggest supplier to the Covax initiative that provides the vaccine to developing countries.
Given the global pandemic, it would not do any good to America if pockets of the infection remained in some far off country. It has to be eradicated everywhere. We all have to be vaccinated.
If that’s not true, then there’s something truly sinister going on.
There are three possible scenarios, in decreasing order of probability:
Scenario One: Commercial considerations of Big Pharma
There has long been the suspicion that Western Big Pharma is in the vaccine game for the profits, and that it will brook no competition. For instance, the moment their mRNA vaccines2 went on the market, they began strong-arming customers. It is said that Pfizer demanded (and got!) total sovereign indemnity from any potential lawsuits; they also are rumored to have asked some countries to put up their embassies and military assets as collateral!
Estimates are that Pfizer made $15 billion in 2020. This data is a little old, but is shows the trend: Pfizer and Moderna are priced much higher than AstraZeneca (Covishield) and Bharat Biotech (Covaxin) products at Rs 150 ($2) in India. Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot vaccine is also cheaper. AstraZeneca and J&J promised to sell at cost, and not make a profit, for a while. Therefore, the hit job. QED.
No wonder, then, that there have been all these media horror stories about blood clots following AstraZeneca and J&J vaccinations, which have led the EU and the US to issue warnings. Meanwhile, there have been no major reports about any side effects of mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. That is distinctly odd.
I am reminded of Sherlock Holmes’ famous “curious incident of the dog in the night-time”. I am also reminded of the old saying “What’s good for General Motors is good for America”, only suitably updated for today.
So why was the Biden administration forced to back-pedal furiously and declare they will help India? First, the optics were really bad: India has exported 44% of its production, and America 0%.
There was broad support for India, even from groups such as crypto-enthusiasts.
Of course the usual suspect Cold Warriors weren’t very happy.
But it appears that American businesses (other than pharma) were a little concerned about India’s ‘buyer power’. After all, India buys a lot of stuff from Boeing, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, etc., and will probably buy even more going forward. Unless, of course, some unfortunate things happened. Like embargoes.
Scenario Two: Regime change and Balkanization in India, and ‘sub-national’ goals
The unrepentant East Coast Atlanticists and woke banshees who make up the Democratic ruling cabal have decided that two things must happen: the toppling of Narendra Modi, and the breakup of India into a bunch of squabbling state-lets.
In case it occurs to you that this is exactly what the Pakistani establishment wants, it is, and that is no coincidence.
It is quite possible that Biden’s Afghan exit is predicated on a deal with Pakistan’s ISI and its proxy the Taliban. Biden will (metaphorically) deliver Modi’s head on a platter, and in return the ISI will not severely harass and kill off American troops as they run for the exits.
But you can’t blame just Biden for this. It has been the general tenor of Democratic presidencies going way back to that charming rogue Clinton and the sainted Obama (who, if I remember right, also publicly granted China the ‘contract’ to manage ‘South Asia’).
The accepted narrative in the West (and this is reflected in their media’s breathless schadenfreude over India’s current Wuhanvirus wave, see for example, https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-26-the-stunning-reaction-to-indias) is that Modi’s is a monstrous regime, that needs to be overturned in a ‘color revolution’, of which anti-CAA/anti-370 and ‘farmer’ [sic] protests are dress rehearsals that need American support and encouragement.
The Deep State definitely wants its old embedded assets, the Congress Party, back in power. They smell blood: they used the Wuhan virus and social media to do regime change and get rid of Donald Trump in the US. They think they can do the same in India. The 500,000 bots recruited by the Congress party (they advertised openly for it) can be counted upon to manufacture consent on social media.
The Congress party has a long history of giving away Indian land: starting with Partition and the gift of PoK by Nehru, then the gift of Cocos Islands to Myanmar, the tremendous efforts by Manmohan Singh to give away Siachen to Pakistan, and now the Congress’ support to Khalistani separatists aka ‘farmers’.
This fits right in with the Deep State’s balkanization efforts for India. “Subnational” is code for “let’s split India into many pieces”.
Incidentally, Biden’s graceless offer under duress to help India was intended to be through “partners” and “institutions”, read NGOs and embedded long-term assets including astroturfed activists. I hope India put its foot down and insisted that all transactions would be government-to-government.
John Mearsheimer, a well-known geostrategist, pointed out the fatal flaws in the Deep State’s assumptions about “Liberal Hegemony” and the huge bloodshed they have caused, but they march on, regardless. (Hat tip Megh Kalyanasundaram).
I can tell you this delusion isn’t going to end well for anybody concerned.
The narrative that Indians need to be ‘saved’ is so pervasive that no western media would ever run a story that shows we actually have agency, for example the story of 85 year old Narayan Dabhadkar, who voluntarily gave up his COVID bed in a hospital for a younger man, a stranger, “because I have lived my life, and he hasn’t”. He died 3 days later, at home.
Narayan Dabhadkar, an RSS man, will for that reason not be honored in Indian media or textbooks. Compare this to how Captain Oates in the ill-fated South Pole expedition of Robert Scott was lionized by the British as the ultimate in self-sacrifice, and we lap up the European sentiment vicariously.
Scenario Three: A large climate change initiative of depopulation
This is the doomsday scenario. We may be facing a perfect storm of several things: technological discontinuities, the possibly exaggerated fear of climate change, and ruthless power politics.
On the one hand, the AI revolution is making more and more people redundant. They are surplus workers who will never again find employment. What happened with factory jobs through automation is on the verge of happening to white collar jobs through GPT-3 and natural language processing neural networks.
Then the question arises: why should the Earth be burdened with over 8 billion people who are ravaging the environment? There’s COP-26 on climate change and COP-15 on biodiversity coming up later this year, and it is evident that the two are linked, and that both are severely affected by growing human populations.
We have seen utterly ruthless exterminations of various populations by big powers in the past: and today we see Chinese settlers doing it to Uighurs and Tibetans. Earlier, white settlers did this in North America and Australia, wiping out not only the natives, but also the passenger pigeon and the American bison. (I am not sure if it’s a European custom, or an Abrahamic custom, or both.)
In case you think I made up the scenario of depopulation, here’s The New York Times saying so just yesterday, hat tip to Sujeev Kommana. Since the NYT is to Biden as Global Times is to Xi Jinping, we should be concerned. Very concerned.
Here is a relevant screenshot:
“Perhaps some rogue technology…bioterror attacks… will kill enough people”. The question is, “which people"? The answer is obvious. And that is precisely what the Wuhan virus could well be: a bio-weapon. There are unanswered questions:
How did the virus actually originate? Was it an accident or was it deliberately engineered?
Since it first appeared in China, why has Chinese mortality been low, and why have new mutated variants not appeared there?
Why have East Asians been notably less susceptible?
How come new catastrophic variants appeared in the UK, Brazil and India? (Note: brown indigenous people in Brazil, and brown people in India)
In India, the mutations appeared in Delhi and Mumbai, all of a sudden after the earlier wave had died out. (Note: not where election rallies took place)
What I’m driving at is that there seems to be a series of engineered variants that are quietly being introduced into different places. It doesn’t appear natural.
What’s even more remarkable is that high-ranking Americans (whom I dare not name) funded the Wuhan virology lab; others accurately predicted the trajectory of the pandemic; in fact, there were even films made that were startlingly accurate, such as Contagion.
It does sound like science fiction. If one were to feed the climate change data into an impersonal AI like HAL of 2001: A Space Odyssey, it would definitely suggest depopulation using any means possible, just as it decided to kill its astronauts since it thought they might jeopardize its mission.
HAL would even suggest to the West an alliance with the Chinese to get rid of the pesky global South, all those useless black and brown people just occupying space and using up resources.
It could well be that bio-weapons are the most efficient and least damaging way of achieving the desired depopulation of brown and black people. Let us note that India is only about 10% vaccinated, and Africa is roughly 1% vaccinated. Deny them vaccines, and it’s mission accomplished.
Apr 28, 2021; updated Apr 29, 2021.
Dennis Kux, “India and the United States: Estranged Democracies 1941-1991”, Diane Publishing 1992
There is no clarity about their long-term side-effects because these have never been certified for use before, and the way they affect RNA and DNA is unknown
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