Straight Talk | Modi's G7 Invite Isn't An Olive Branch, It's The West’s White Flag Of Necessity
So, how should one interpret PM Modi’s participation at the G7 summit in Canada? Many would call it an olive branch from Canada, a nation that several months ago stood before the world and accused India of orchestrating a political assassination on its sovereign soil. But is that really the case?
Hardly. This was a white flag. Plain and simple.
That the Canadian government would agree to share a forum with a leader it has publicly implicated is the entire story. It is a stark and deeply revealing lesson in 21st-century realpolitik. It represents the West’s reluctant but necessary capitulation to a new global hierarchy.
In a world ablaze—with a grinding war of attrition in Eastern Europe, an escalating inferno in West Asia, and the shadow of China’s ambitions looming over the Indo-Pacific—the leaders of the G7 have been forced to confront an inconvenient truth: moral outrage is a luxury they can no longer afford. The principles they preach on sunlit stages have been quietly shelved in the cold, hard calculus of survival.
The unstated reality, the one whispered in the corridors of power from Washington to Brussels, is that India has become too big to fail, too powerful to ignore, and too strategically vital to alienate. It is the indispensable counterweight, the emerging economic engine, and the demographic behemoth whose trajectory will define this century. The West doesn’t have to like it. They just have to accept it.
And Canada’s acquiescence is the ultimate proof. Trudeau’s........
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