Excellent post sir. Are the thoughts regarding Democrats and Republicans colluding on Indian immigration your own or is there a source (book, blog etc) for them? Please cite if there is, I'd like to read more.
Those are my own thoughts.
I've observed that whenever there are multilateral forums where geopolitics is discussed, it is the Americans who keep criticizing their previous policy, admitting to committing a folly and pretending to be sorry about it. One would feel that they are so humble, given their ability to admit their mistakes, however it is a gimmick to admit it as a mistake than to admit that it was deliberate policy. It's like a murderer admitting to petty crime and giving himself a clean chit.
Just notice how people like Christine Fair repeatedly keep chastising 'stupid American policy'. This is a master stroke because calling them stupid liberates them from the guilt of having done it deliberately and on the other hand she comes across as 'unbiased' to the Indian audience.
Observe how the deep state fooled the world. When anti-war sentiment was at an all time high, and the people were moving to the left, they propped up Obama and made him promise that he will withdraw troops from Afghanistan (and Gitmo), but they never actually allowed him to withdraw the troops for his 8 year term. At the end of his term, he 'withdrew' troops in such a manner that it was not an American withdrawal from the Afghan theater but it was effectively only a troop reshuffle because Trump immediately sent other troops to replenish it.
Now the people cannot say that Obama did not keep his promise. The Democrats will claim that we removed the troops but Trump sent them again. It had been their plan all along to hold on to Afghanistan in perpetuity. Now, if there is an adverse outcome in Afghanistan in the next 4 years, the deep state will prop up an anti-war Democratic puppet to blame Trump for sending troops and going against 'Obama policy' (lol) then once elected, he will continue the policy of the deep state. If there is a favorable outcome in Afghanistan, then the deep state will give a second term to Trump and Republicans will claim that it was the right move. In all this smoke and mirrors, the deep state maintains its inertia. It doesn't let democracy stifle its long term plans, on the contrary, it uses democracy to fool the people. They just keep propping up leaders according to public sentiment but the policy never changes. Whatever adverse effects arise out of the policies of the deep state, they use a new puppet to blame their old puppet and allow the public to let off some steam.
The Obamacare was also a similar gimmick. The global economy was in turmoil throughout Obama's tenure, so there was a chance that people will default on their health insurance payments, so they created a universal healthcare and made the whole nation pay for health insurance through taxes. This way, the insurance companies insulated themselves from the global downturn. Now the economy is growing and people have the capacity to pay more, so the insurance companies are getting Trump to remove Obamacare so that people will opt for costlier private insurance policies.
It's never Obama-policy or Trump-policy. The deep state always calls the shots. The seeming change in policy is just the deep state's reaction to the changing events on the ground. I heard news channels blabbering that Obama refused to sell Gurdian drones because Democrats were anti-India and Trump is pro-business so he is open to making a deal. That's plain horseshit. If the current geopolitical situation existed during Obama tenure, then they would have sold us the same weapons at that time. If China was as aggressive in the SCS as it is right now, then Negro baba would have sold us the drones in 2008 itself and they would have told their Indo-phobic support base that it was done to bolster American economy. You can cook up any story you want, the people are stupid and they have been kept stupid by keeping their attention away from geopolitics and focused on pop culture icons.