Do you think it's time to move away from non-alignment?
A few days ago, the IMF approved 1 billion dollars of aid to Pakistan despite India's objection. And I think we all know what purpose that aid is going to be used for.
Also, just to give a quick primer on how IMF works, there is 25 member committee that votes on each proposition. Each member represents a country and their vote is proportional to how much money their country has contributed to the IMF (For eg, America's vote represents 16% of total vote share while China's represents 6%). Countries cannot vote "No". They can either vote "Yes" or they can abstain.
Now coming back to the loan IMF gave to Pakistan, the amount itself is relatively small, we spend 20 times more on fertilizers each year to use Mr. Tharoor's example, but it's telling that India was the only country to abstain. All the Western countries voted yes, likely to punish us for not supporting Ukraine. And not even Russia abstained despite the fact that we supported their junk economy during the war.
Meanwhile Pakistan is getting actual help from both China and Turkey in terms of equipment, logistical support and technology. And we can laugh all we want about 'defective Chinese weapons' but we're literally standing on our own, we've alienated the West due to our support to Russia and membership to in BRICS, we've been abandoned by Russia (big surprise there, the state is run by mafia dons) and not even our neighbours care about us.
I'm starting to think we need to join some geopolitical bloc, ideally in my opinion it should be Europe in my opinion since they're relatively stable and sane-minded as opposed to US (run by a uneducated game show host and his cult), China and Russia (run by strongmen with no proper succession plans) or the Islamic world (run by theocratcs and completely divided in internal conflicts).
Posted May 11, 2025, 4:50 PM UTC