To Delhi’s chagrin, US president Donald Trump announced a ceasefire and claimed it was brokered by him after the conflict between India and Pakistan flared up following Operation Sindoor.
“The US-India relationship is strong as it predates Trump. It goes from Clinton to Bush to Obama to Trump to Biden and Trump again… There is bipartisan belief [in the US] that this relationship is only going to get stronger. I am not seeing any change in the trajectory despite the last four weeks,” Ravi Agrawal, editor in chief of Foreign Policy magazine and a geopolitical expert, said in an interview with Newslaundry.
After Trump’s ceasefire claim following India’s Operation Sindoor in response to a terror attack in Pahalgam, India has objected to it. Should Trump’s claims be seen as a betrayal towards PM Narendra Modi?
Ravi, who is also the former Delhi bureau chief of CNN, said India should not read much into Trump’s claims, considering he likes to “inflate his involvement” and “claim victories when there are none”. “I wouldn’t see it as a betrayal. This is Trump acting exactly as you would expect him to act,” he said.
Ravi also explains the role of the Quad bloc, India-US tariff talks, how misinformation and disinformation contributed to issues, and much more.
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