Skip to main content

Why the US-India relationship is in trouble?




With the US ramping up sanctions against countries deemed as "enemy nations", India is in a bit of a spot. Russia and Iran are both under sanctions. As the world’s largest economy, the US finds sanctions an effective diplomatic weapon to put pressure on its enemies. Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) is now a major tool to scarce away all those who wish to defy the US. Countries doing business with America’s enemies will also come on the radar and bear the brunt of US sanctions.

India, which does business both with Russia and Iran, is likely to be hit hard. Despite growing warmth in ties with the US the spin-off may adversely affect India’s relations with the US. From being on opposite sides of the Cold War divide, India-US ties underwent a dramatic change since the signing of the civil nuclear deal in 2005.

Successive Indian governments have followed a policy of not honouring sanctions slapped unilaterally by any country. Only sanctions which are endorsed by the UNSC is followed by Delhi. Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj made this point clear at her news conference on Monday (May 28). "India follows only UN sanctions and not unilateral sanctions by any country.” Indications are this policy is not about to change.  https://www.dailyo.in/politics/us-india-ties-russia-iran-economic-sanctions-sushma-swaraj/story/1/24530.html





Astrological progressions are one of the main means used in Horoscopic astrology to forecast future trends and developments (the other means is transits, which are simply the ongoing movements of the planets across the sky). As its name implies, astrological progression involves a method of progressing the Horoscope forward from the moment of the birth or beginning of the subject into the future, and is most usually done for the birth or natal chart of a particular individual or entity. However, this method can be modified to understand future trends in relationships by comparing the progressions of one entity with the radix planets of another entity (individual or nation). For example in our case here,  we see that currently India’s progressed Sun [14ar] is opposite the US Sibly Saturn [14li] and square Sun [13cn].





This is a highly separative combination. India (prog. Sun) may perceive the US (radix Saturn) as extremely restrictive and break the relationship.

Comments