Shadow Warrior | Zohran Mamdani and the coming crisis for Hindus in America

I have long felt the Deep State works on a single playbook in its foreign policy: regime change, or what is colloquially called ‘Colour Revolutions’. It is a simple routine: in some remote country, declare the ruling dispensation to be mad dogs, and shoot them—metaphorically, if not in reality. Anoint a ‘friend’ as the new chief. All hail to him/her! The pliant media goes along.

There have been innumerable such plays all over the world, and most of the time, the results have been bad to disastrous for the country in question. Just look at Ukraine, Iraq, Libya, and Syria for recent examples. Iran too, when Mossadegh was toppled because of—what else—oil: BP was annoyed at him for nationalising Iranian oil.

As an aside, I have wondered why the Deep State did not orchestrate a Colour Revolution against the Nehru dynasty. On the face of it, there were plenty of reasons to do so: Jawaharlal Nehru’s embrace of the Soviet Union, Indira Gandhi’s defiance regarding East Pakistan, and so on. So why didn’t they topple the dynasty and install a puppet, as they did with Mohammed Yunus in Bangladesh?

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Maybe India was just too unimportant. Or maybe—just maybe—the Nehru dynasty was, in fact, the Deep State puppet already in place. Was Jawaharlal Nehru hand-picked and didn’t even know?

So is Zohran Mamdani’s rise the first Colour Revolution in the US? A friend claimed that it wasn’t, and that Barack Obama was the first. That is a debatable point, but one could argue that Obama 1 & 2, and Obama 3 (Biden’s term), were the worst presidencies in US history.

While there have been many good opinion pieces written about Mamdani’s rise and rise—for instance, by Jaggi and Avatans Kumar—I would like to focus on the broader implications of what the Deep State might achieve by rolling out a Colour Revolution in its own backyard. It’s one thing to mess up a far-off country, and an entirely different thing to screw up your own premier city. This is a high-risk (and presumably high-return) strategy for the Deep State.

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This Colour Revolution possibility is not something I invented out of thin air. I give due credit to, among others, San for noting this possibility, along with many other unusual things about the Mamdani campaign, including its connection to Soros, as well as the uncompromising religious bigotry and use of dog-whistles against, for instance, Jews and Hindus.

So Mamdani is worth watching, and so is his father, Professor Mahmood Mamdani, who wrote something alarming in his 2004 book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror. See an excerpt below that seems to justify suicide bombing as a tactic. Of course, he may just have been doing an academic analysis, and surely, what the father said cannot be attributed to the son, but we can wonder about early influences on Zohran.

Beyond the personal proclivities of the man and family, there is a mixture of Islamist radicalism and extreme-Left radicalism in Zohran Mamdani’s background. Some have called his rise a victory for the Red-Green Alliance, which is of significance to India, because here too we have often seen such a combination in play.

The bigger question is how this relates to the eclipse of the West. I take the UK as Exhibit A. There was a recent article in The Economist magazine about how Britain is now a cheap country. In other words, the per capita income has fallen, and British assets are valued low because there is a general perception of malaise, partly because manufacturing has collapsed.

The headline is precious. It reminds me of the subtitle to Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove: “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” Right on, cheers, tally-ho!

It was hugely entertaining to also listen to an Economist podcast that suggested a “services-led economy” would be the UK’s saviour. Raghuram Rajan, take a bow. Necessity being the mother of invention, I suppose. There is not a single product of British manufacturing that anybody wants (with the possible exception of Rolls-Royce aircraft engines). They were able to dump their inferior goods on defenceless colonies (read: India), but those days are over.

They are now apparently depending on services (e.g., their journalism, which, with its clipped accents, impresses Americans, but is available to the highest bidder. The word “presstitutes” leaps to mind). In addition, IT services, it seems, given their convenient time zone. And cheap IT labour. Yes, a direct threat to India. Wipro, Infosys, TCS—I am sure—are paralysed with fear.

The UK is, in many ways, the canary in the coalmine. Its precipitous decline is related to the fact that it is a small island off northwest Europe, whereas of course the US is a continent-sized country with massive resources. But the other factors—the previous holder of the global reserve currency, the previous dominant superpower, etc—are relevant to the US.

To be honest, I have no idea what the UK’s elites are thinking, because their current trajectory is going to end in disaster. As I have said before, they have fancied themselves as dealmakers extraordinaire, with Whitehall leading the world in mischief. But they were too clever by half: their homeland is collapsing now. I don’t mind; it’s schadenfreude time, but I wonder what 3-D chess they are playing. I wonder if, similarly, the Deep State has a clue.

The one thing that has sustained the UK in the last few decades is their financial services. But with the LIBOR scandal and Brexit, that game is also moving on: to Frankfurt, Singapore, Dubai (and eventually, I guess, GIFT City, India). The City of London, the name of the financial district, has been decimated. This is a warning to Wall Street in New York City.

Another warning comes from California in general, and San Francisco in particular. Once the most appealing of American cities, it has been turned into a fetid, dangerous place full of—yes—“street-shitters” and fentanyl addicts. The main culprit has been rule by Left-wing extremists who put in place the ingredients for terminal decline: for instance, a moratorium on prosecuting any property crimes worth less than $950, which led to the hollowing out of retail downtown.

I am not saying New York City is a pleasant place—especially compared to what San Francisco was (I lived for a long time in the suburbs of both, so I have personal experience)—but there is surely a lot that can go wrong with socialism of the Mamdani variety. Exhibits A, B, C: Venezuela, Cuba, etc.

What is of more immediate concern to Hindus is that the US will become more dangerous for them. As it is, the amount of racial hatred and animosity toward brown Hindus has grown perceptibly, aided by social media ‘influencers’ who are likely paid by ISI/CCP/Deep State. There is also the element of envy, as Hindus have risen to high positions, mostly by way of hard work and smarts. In analogy with Jews, this envy can turn into poisonous bigotry. We have seen how Kristallnachts develop. And then Final Solutions.

The UK has seen, along with the growth of its Muslim population (“demography is destiny”), a concomitant level of animosity and violence against Hindus: see Leicester; and the British establishment is so afraid of Muslims that they will not take any steps to curb their acts. This is leading to clear and present danger for Hindus. We have seen this movie before.

In addition to the increasing animosity toward H1-B-holding Indians, who are predominantly Hindus, a victory for Zohran Mamdani will basically make it clear to US Hindus that their days are numbered, and that the US may rapidly follow the UK into societal and economic collapse. It’s a sobering thought. Do we have a Plan B?

The writer has been a conservative columnist for over 25 years. His academic interest is innovation. Views expressed in the above piece are personal and solely those of the author. They do not necessarily reflect Firstpost’s views.