Wasn't Dope telling us that secondary tariffs would have no effect on relationships with India? Wasn't Dope having a row with Al and telling Al he has a spectacularly bad take on that because Modi knew Trump? And that Modi knew how to bargain with Trump? Aren't we seeing Trump himself acknowledge it was a blunder and he drove India further away from the USA? Sure looks like it.

NYT

Luke Broadwater David E. Sanger

By Luke Broadwater and David E. Sanger

Sept. 5, 2025

At the Capitol in January, India’s foreign minister was seated in the front row for President Trump’s inauguration, a sign of the deepening ties that a generation of American presidents have attempted to forge with the world’s most populous nation.

Now, just months later, Mr. Trump is publicly lamenting that India has abandoned him for the embrace of China, Washington’s strategic rival.

“Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday morning, as he posted a photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia with China’s leader, Xi Jinping. The three leaders met in China earlier this week.

“May they have a long and prosperous future together!” he wrote.

It was a rare acknowledgment that Mr. Trump’s attempts at blunt-force diplomacy, not to mention punishing tariffs, were having some unintended consequences. The uneasy partnership to create an alternative to the West’s global leadership that began with China and Russia, then expanded to North Korea and Iran, may now be about to incorporate — at least episodically — India, the world’s largest democracy.

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