John F Kennedy contemplated using nukes to save India from China

[amoy]

the first two decades after WWII was spat in getting maximum number Of countries in the respective blocs. Hell the thaw with China happened after Sino-Soviet relations broke down.

Case of ideology and geopolitics used as per convenience

One of causes for Sino-Soviet schism was the Soviet's pro-India stand on the Indo-China conflict. What'd happen had China not quit the Soviet camp?

 

[Yusuf]

Show me some concrete examples that support this statement.

American foreign policy in the first half of the 20th century included propping up puppet dictatorships and banana republics in Latin America and the Caribbean (such as that of Fulgencio Batista in Cuba), colonizing the Philippines after a brutal insurgency, and forming an alliance with the evil Soviet Union against a common enemy, Nazi Germany. I fail to see where "ideology" played a major role in shaping American foreign policy.

The Americans didn't want any new country to fall to Soviet Union and the Went all out to ensure that. Off Course NO one is holy in geopolitics

 

[Yusuf]

One of causes for Sino-Soviet schism was the Soviet's pro-India stand on the Indo-China conflict. What'd happen had China not quit the Soviet camp?

I don't think so. India approached the US fa help. When India did'nt get what it wanted, then it moved towards the Soviet Union. There was no pro India tilt as sunk till then

 

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The U.S. remains bedfellows with the barbaric Wahhabist monarchies of West Asia even today, two decades since the collapse of the U.S.S.R.

U.S. foreign policy gives little to none practical consideration to ideology. It is based solely on national interest and nothing else; this is how U.S. has risen to the status of superpower. The moralism and ideology is just there for rhetorical and propaganda purposes (and hey, it works, so why not use it?).

Iran revealed the flaws in this policy when shah of Iran government fell it was a shock for
US foreign policy and think tanks alike.

 

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JFK's Overshadowed Crisis | The National Interest

IN APRIL, India launched a long-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear bomb deep into the Indian Ocean. The successful Agni missile test fulfilled India's fifty-year quest to achieve the means of dispatching a nuclear weapon to Beijing. Just about fifty years ago, in October 1962, India fought a brief war against China in the Himalaya Mountains. India lost that war—and vowed it would acquire the capacity to deter Chinese aggression.

The Sino-Indian war also posed a crisis for America's young president, John F. Kennedy, who had entered office determined to build a strong U.S. relationship with India. But his attention that fateful autumn was diverted to a more ominous crisis—the one involving Soviet efforts to place nuclear missiles in Cuba—that unleashed a dangerous nuclear face-off with the Soviet Union. Thus, Kennedy confronted two simultaneous crises, one far overshadowed by the other at the time and also later in history.

But Kennedy's handling of the 1962 war—in the midst of a far graver national challenge—offers lessons today for those interested in the ongoing diplomatic conundrum posed by India and its mutually hostile neighbor, Pakistan.

When Kennedy became president in January 1961, the United States and India were estranged democracies. Throughout the 1950s, President Dwight Eisenhower had tilted his administration's subcontinent diplomacy toward Pakistan's military dictatorship and away from India. After all, Pakistan offered its territory as a secret base for America's U-2 spy planes, which were used effectively to penetrate Soviet airspace and collect valuable intelligence on Washington's Cold War adversary.

 

[Yusuf]

JFK's Overshadowed Crisis | The National Interest

IN APRIL, India launched a long-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear bomb deep into the Indian Ocean. The successful Agni missile test fulfilled India's fifty-year quest to achieve the means of dispatching a nuclear weapon to Beijing. Just about fifty years ago, in October 1962, India fought a brief war against China in the Himalaya Mountains. India lost that war—and vowed it would acquire the capacity to deter Chinese aggression.

The Sino-Indian war also posed a crisis for America's young president, John F. Kennedy, who had entered office determined to build a strong U.S. relationship with India. But his attention that fateful autumn was diverted to a more ominous crisis—the one involving Soviet efforts to place nuclear missiles in Cuba—that unleashed a dangerous nuclear face-off with the Soviet Union. Thus, Kennedy confronted two simultaneous crises, one far overshadowed by the other at the time and also later in history.

But Kennedy's handling of the 1962 war—in the midst of a far graver national challenge—offers lessons today for those interested in the ongoing diplomatic conundrum posed by India and its mutually hostile neighbor, Pakistan.

When Kennedy became president in January 1961, the United States and India were estranged democracies. Throughout the 1950s, President Dwight Eisenhower had tilted his administration's subcontinent diplomacy toward Pakistan's military dictatorship and away from India. After all, Pakistan offered its territory as a secret base for America's U-2 spy planes, which were used effectively to penetrate Soviet airspace and collect valuable intelligence on Washington's Cold War adversary.

Anyone a member on this site to get the full article?

 

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Anyone a member on this site to get the full article?

I am trying to find it.