Posted on 08/28/2016 11:47:59 PM PDT by jcon40
President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India in June. (Photo by Dennis Brack-Pool/Getty Images)
Around August 30, in Washington, India and the U.S. will sign a major war pact that makes them logistical allies against, among others, the superpower China currently making a bold power grab in the South China Sea.
Specifically, Indian Defense Mister Manohar Parrikar will sign the deal during a two-day visit in Washington. The deal is the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA), a foundational agreement for India and the U.S.. In this instance, the agreement provides for each to use the other globally for supplies, spare parts, services and refueling. Effectively, U.S. armed forces can operate out of Indian bases, and vice versa, on a simple basis.
For the U.S., this is part of the “pivot” to Asia intended by President Obama to meet a rising China. The U.S. Navy plans to deploy 60 percent of its surface ships in the Indo-Pacific in the near future. Instead of having to build facilities virtually from the ground up, as in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. has the benefit of simple arrangements for the tremendous Indian facilities.
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“For Prime Minister Modi, it is a major step for India away from its Cold War alliance with Russia, toward a new alliance with the U.S. (and Japan and Australia) to protect the Indian Ocean and the seas off Southeast Asia, especially from China.”
“For Prime Minister Modi, it is a major step for India away from its Cold War alliance with Russia, toward a new alliance with the U.S. (and Japan and Australia) to protect the Indian Ocean and the seas off Southeast Asia, especially from China.”
I wouldn’t trust us... not with O’bozo in POTUS seat...
Hopefully the treaty will extend beyond Obozo’s term in Jan 2017.
good news.
? Beware? Why? Obama’s signed documents are worthless.
I hope the leaders of India realize that fact. He is the singularly most UNtrustworthy “leader” on the world stage today.
This is not a treaty, it is a logistical agreement. We have a lot of these admistrative agreements with countries around the globe.
Essentially, if a US ship or aircraft is passing by or flying through India and needs a spare part, fuel, food, etc... The Indians will provide it and bill us a fair price, instead of asking for cash up front. If an Indian ship or aircraft needs something and and a US ship or base nearby has it, we’ll provide it, and bill them.
Sounds like stinky is trying to weasel mil intell from India by sucking up to them.
Yep-
Worthless agreement for India-
But they have to try something!!
Multiple terrorist attacks from Pakistan-
Multiple incursions from the Chinese ARMY!
O’boZo hates India- he will screw them just like he screwed everyone else
This is the culmination of at least 20 years of America offshoring jobs to India. The wealth we’ve pumped into the Indian economy has bought us an ally in South Asia, a counterweight to China. At the cost of millions of American jobs, of course ...
The laughable irony is that we ship even more money to China in the form of our distorted trade imbalance. And that wealth is being used to arm a nation every bit as aggressive and militaristic as 1935 Japan.
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