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First the numbers ...
China has 18.6%, India has 17.9% and the USA has 4.4% of the world population. That means India is 4.07 times as big as the US in population.
In Square Kilometres, the USA is 3rd with 9.8 million , China is 4th with 9.6 million and India is 7th with 3.3 million. That means the USA has almost 3 times the landmass as India does.
India has only 3.9 people per 1000 in defense while the USA has 7.3 making the US 1.87 times more militarised per capita than India in relative terms.
India has around 4.8 million defense personnel which is approximately double that of the USA with around 2.3 million. However the US defense budget leads the world with around $569.3 billion per year compared to 6th placed India with $49.7 billion. That's a multiple of 11.45 . The US defense budget is more than double that of China, the 2nd on the list, with $190.9 billion.
The nominal GDP of the USA is 1st at 17.9 Trillion USD and that of India is 7th at 2 Trillion USD. So the US is 9 times richer in absolute terms.
Allowing for minor corrections like disputed territories and various estimates, this means India is a country that is almost 12 times as dense as the US. And per capita wise, the US is 36 times richer than India. But it spends 45.8 times on defense per citizen as does India. And India has never aggressed on another country. All its wars were wars of defense. The USA on the other hand ...
In such a crowded, beleaguered and poor country as India it will not be easy to match the USA on the cherry picked matrices Cardin attempts to pompously lecture India on. It is very hypocritical to lecture India on the Gujarat riots when the US bombed the hell out of Iraq, Laos, Germany and Japan. The number of deaths in India due to mob violence may well be below that of the US if taken on a per capita basis. An extremely multi-cultural India has tremendous amount of religious freedom despite being more than 85% Hindu at Independence. The more ethnically diverse but culturally uniform United States is no comparison. While the US forced the Japanese emperor to renounce his Shinto religion bestowed Divinity, India at tremendous cost to itself gave shelter to the Dalai Lama and his entourage against what was at that time a far superior Chinese Army.
Regarding the treatment of women or minorities, it would be silly to proclaim India as a paragon of virtue but yet again if we fall back on the huge numbers and use it as a denominator, India might well come out on top or at least not appear as bad when its poverty is taken into consideration. Though not as good as some more free market economies, human rights is far better in India today for Indians than it was when it was ruled by the British or by the various invading armies from the North West. As regards the few - but still unforgivable - extra-judicial killings, not that their lives don't matter - they do, #alllivesmatter - India, at least doesn't have a military industrial complex or intelligence agency more powerful than its democratic entities and does not kill its elected rulers. Before spouting sermons, the US should at the very least, first be able to honestly solve the JFK murder. Isn't it odd that the CIA and the FBI still can't seem to solve it ?
Maybe this Cardin asshole should take his head out of his butt before he tells other people how to run their country.
The US politician and media imperiously deems that one must measure everything by their 'Politically Correct' standards because they are "exceptional". However, like in most countries, the man on the street is usually better than his politician. Most Americans I have met on my travels are one of the nicest people among all expats without 'exception'. This is of course the opposite of the US politician 'which' (who?) is the worst sociopath on the planet , so bad that I have to admit even India's politicians are better in comparison. Anglo-American politicians are definitely the most devious and most subtle in today's world. In emerging nations, when a despot is bad, most people are aware of it. It's much more obvious. The US has career sociopaths are very practiced in their arts and understanding them is a full time job which the average tax slave has scant time to devote to.
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in the Times of India by Indrani Bagchi| TNN | Jun 1, 2016, 09.56 PM IST
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First the numbers ...
China has 18.6%, India has 17.9% and the USA has 4.4% of the world population. That means India is 4.07 times as big as the US in population.
In Square Kilometres, the USA is 3rd with 9.8 million , China is 4th with 9.6 million and India is 7th with 3.3 million. That means the USA has almost 3 times the landmass as India does.
India has only 3.9 people per 1000 in defense while the USA has 7.3 making the US 1.87 times more militarised per capita than India in relative terms.
India has around 4.8 million defense personnel which is approximately double that of the USA with around 2.3 million. However the US defense budget leads the world with around $569.3 billion per year compared to 6th placed India with $49.7 billion. That's a multiple of 11.45 . The US defense budget is more than double that of China, the 2nd on the list, with $190.9 billion.
The nominal GDP of the USA is 1st at 17.9 Trillion USD and that of India is 7th at 2 Trillion USD. So the US is 9 times richer in absolute terms.
Allowing for minor corrections like disputed territories and various estimates, this means India is a country that is almost 12 times as dense as the US. And per capita wise, the US is 36 times richer than India. But it spends 45.8 times on defense per citizen as does India. And India has never aggressed on another country. All its wars were wars of defense. The USA on the other hand ...
In such a crowded, beleaguered and poor country as India it will not be easy to match the USA on the cherry picked matrices Cardin attempts to pompously lecture India on. It is very hypocritical to lecture India on the Gujarat riots when the US bombed the hell out of Iraq, Laos, Germany and Japan. The number of deaths in India due to mob violence may well be below that of the US if taken on a per capita basis. An extremely multi-cultural India has tremendous amount of religious freedom despite being more than 85% Hindu at Independence. The more ethnically diverse but culturally uniform United States is no comparison. While the US forced the Japanese emperor to renounce his Shinto religion bestowed Divinity, India at tremendous cost to itself gave shelter to the Dalai Lama and his entourage against what was at that time a far superior Chinese Army.
Regarding the treatment of women or minorities, it would be silly to proclaim India as a paragon of virtue but yet again if we fall back on the huge numbers and use it as a denominator, India might well come out on top or at least not appear as bad when its poverty is taken into consideration. Though not as good as some more free market economies, human rights is far better in India today for Indians than it was when it was ruled by the British or by the various invading armies from the North West. As regards the few - but still unforgivable - extra-judicial killings, not that their lives don't matter - they do, #alllivesmatter - India, at least doesn't have a military industrial complex or intelligence agency more powerful than its democratic entities and does not kill its elected rulers. Before spouting sermons, the US should at the very least, first be able to honestly solve the JFK murder. Isn't it odd that the CIA and the FBI still can't seem to solve it ?
Maybe this Cardin asshole should take his head out of his butt before he tells other people how to run their country.
The US politician and media imperiously deems that one must measure everything by their 'Politically Correct' standards because they are "exceptional". However, like in most countries, the man on the street is usually better than his politician. Most Americans I have met on my travels are one of the nicest people among all expats without 'exception'. This is of course the opposite of the US politician 'which' (who?) is the worst sociopath on the planet , so bad that I have to admit even India's politicians are better in comparison. Anglo-American politicians are definitely the most devious and most subtle in today's world. In emerging nations, when a despot is bad, most people are aware of it. It's much more obvious. The US has career sociopaths are very practiced in their arts and understanding them is a full time job which the average tax slave has scant time to devote to.
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