M.K. Bhadrakumar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third term in office is a legacy term marked by his ‘coming of age’ — taking bold decisions in foreign policies. Hardly has the dust settled down on Modi’s controversial decision to visit Kiev as peacemaker even as the Ukraine war is only accelerating, Modi took the decision in the solitude of his mind apparently to call on Donald Trump during his brief 3-day visit to the US starting Saturday.
That, at least, is the signal from the silence of the lambs in the US State Department and our Mission in DC. Actually, the ‘breaking news’ came from the great man himself . The US media promptly flashed it.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, spin masters in Delhi are playing up PM’s meeting with Trump. The ANI took an interview with the prominent New York-based entrepreneur and Trump’s close aide Al Mason (who figures in Trump’s inner circle) and Doordarshan promptly carried the news agency’s entire 760-word report on its website, titled PM Modi, Trump Are Strong Leaders Who Respect Each Other, Says Former US President’s Close Aide.
Despite the orchestrated campaign against Trump by mainstream US media, Delhi apparently keeps an open mind. Modi is on the same page as Hungarian PM Viktor Orban and Polish President Andrzej Duda, the flag carriers of right-wing conservative-nationalist ideology in European politics, who reject the neoconservative-globalist outlook that President Biden represents.
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