The Indian diaspora stands at 35 million. Millions of Indians emmigrate each year. Just now, Russia alone announced they're importing a million Indians replace the young men that went to fight in the war with Ukraine. It's probably that the number of Indians outside India will surpass 80 million by 2040
Some sixteen years ago when Mitt Romney and Barak Obama were having a debate, the question came up: "Who should America side with, and who is the greater adversary: Russia or China?" Romney took the side that Russia was the ally and that China was the big bad. Obama took the opposite tack that China is the ally and Russia is the big bad. Any armchair grand strategist can fill in the words with pros and cons, that make the question a delicious one it's hard to say one way or the other, depending on your values? People thought Obama won the debate with his assertion that China helps us defeat Russia, which might be correlated with him later getting selected by the shadows. The argument Obama was employing was a pragmatic one that said China although much less advanced than Russia at the time, provides massive benefits to the USA, wheras Russia does not, and seeks its own aims only. This USA-Ally rank ordering model might be given a name such as: "Help the nice guy underdog who cooperates, over the near-peer competitor". Now get in my time machine and fast forward 20 years to 2025. Russia and its Hegimonic dreams are being clapped out of existence by a joint strike 26 nation army, and once again Mitt Romney and Barack Obama get to answer the question: "Dear Infallable Leader, Who is America's Ally, and who is big big bad and how do we rank order?". Well lets bring in the model: "help the nice guy underdog who cooperates, over the near-peer competitor", with Russia out of the picture, your choices are now China or India. The answer is clear, stick that in your AI gelpacks and hit frappe: Comes out as India is America's greatest ally against China who is the Big Bad.
